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Enter your scheme's costs and GDV to see an indicative facility size, equity requirement and profit margin — sized against both loan-to-cost and loan-to-GDV.

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Total scheme cost —
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How this is calculated

The facility is capped by whichever is lower: your target loan-to-cost, or your target loan-to-GDV. That's how senior lenders size a facility in practice — a scheme can be well within LTC terms but still capped by LTGDV if margins are tight, or vice versa.

Which figure does a lender actually use?

Lenders size to the lower of loan-to-cost and loan-to-GDV — this calculator shows both so you can see which one is the binding constraint on your scheme.

Does this include mezzanine or JV equity?

This tool sizes senior debt only. Where the recommended facility leaves a gap against your available equity, see the mezzanine gap calculator.

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Development Finance Brokers is a trading style of Lenzie Consulting Ltd. We are not regulated by the FCA. We do not provide financial advice. We act as a commercial finance broker and work with a panel of lenders to find suitable development finance, bridging finance, and mezzanine finance solutions for property professionals. All lending is subject to status, valuation, and lender criteria. Your property may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on a mortgage or any other debt secured on it.

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