Newcastle Development Finance — about us
A specialist Newcastle-focused development finance brokerage. Corporate-banking background. £400M+ arranged across a 25-year career. Access to the lenders active in the North East market.
£400M+
Arranged (career)
50+
Lender panel
25+ yrs
Property finance
48 hrs
Indicative terms
Specialist, not generalist
Newcastle Development Finance is a trading name of Lenzie Consulting Ltd (company number 08174104). We focus on one product area — development finance for UK property developers — and one city-region: Newcastle upon Tyne and the wider North East footprint. We don’t do residential mortgages, car finance, business loans, or anything else. That focus is deliberate. Development finance is complex, market-sensitive, and relationship-driven; we’d rather be excellent at one thing than mediocre at many.
The founder’s background is corporate banking — a 25-year career on the lender side of property finance, including senior roles at high-street and specialist banks. That institutional experience underpins how we structure and present schemes to lenders: we know what credit committees need to see, what triggers a decline, and where there’s genuine flexibility in lender policy versus where there isn’t.
Across that career the founder has arranged in excess of £400M+ of facilities across senior, stretch senior, mezzanine, JV equity, and exit products. Deal sizes from £500K to £20M+, across every mainstream scheme type: residential new-build, PBSA, BTR, heritage conversion, mixed-use, and permitted-development. See our case studies for examples.
How we work
Specialist focus
Development finance is all we do. No cross-selling, no loss-leader products — just deep expertise in one market.
Lender‑side perspective
We package applications the way credit committees want to see them. Fewer decline surprises, faster credit approval, better terms.
Newcastle market depth
We know which lenders are active in the North East, the comparable evidence the valuers rely on, and the local planning policy nuances across Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside and Sunderland.
Straight answers
If your scheme doesn’t work, we’ll tell you why — and what would need to change for it to fund. We don’t waste time on lost causes.
End‑to‑end execution
From scheme appraisal through credit approval, legals, valuation and drawdown coordination — we manage the full workstream.
Repeat schemes
We can support you across successive schemes, building a track record lenders recognise.
Why a specialist Newcastle broker
The Newcastle development market has genuine regional nuance — five active local planning authorities (Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council, North Tyneside Council, South Tyneside Council and Sunderland City Council), the Pilgrim Street masterplan delivery framework, the Newcastle Helix Local Development Order, the Gateshead Quays Area Action Plan, the Riverside Sunderland Masterplan, Article 4 directions covering NE2 (Jesmond) and NE6 (Heaton), and the regional and specialist lenders active in the North East. We work at that level of local detail.
Newcastle Development Finance is a trading name 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.
Let’s talk about your scheme
Indicative terms within 48 hours. No cost for the initial assessment.