Understand your funding position before approaching the market.
Arclen is a specialist property finance brokerage. We structure, negotiate and manage each transaction from initial assessment through to drawdown. Before a lender sees it, we establish whether the funding position is viable, what structure is realistic, where credit concerns may arise and which route gives the transaction the strongest chance of completing.
Once the position is established, we approach suitable lenders with the transaction already structured, key assumptions tested and the main credit questions addressed.
We begin with judgement, not a data capture form.
Engaging Arclen starts with understanding the transaction: what you are trying to achieve, what the asset has to do, how much funding is required, when it is required and how the facility will be repaid.
From that first exchange, we establish the shape of the funding requirement, the routes worth assessing and the sequence required to move towards drawdown.
We test the transaction before lenders test it.
The questions a credit committee would raise in week three are raised on day one, while there is still time to structure around them. Arclen analyses, prepares and structures the transaction. The lender decides.
Change does not restart the transaction. It updates the strategy.
Costs move, valuations come back light, programmes slip and lender appetite changes. Because the transaction is modelled end to end, a change is immediately traced through the parts it affects — facility size, leverage, viability, lender fit and the recommended route.
As soon as a case input changes, the affected funding position can be reassessed without rebuilding the transaction from the beginning.
The strategy is updated around the new position so the transaction can keep moving.
Our transaction intelligence keeps the underlying assumptions connected, while the judgement, recommendation and lender conversation remain with Arclen.
We start from the situation, not the product.
Nobody sets out needing bridging finance. There is an acquisition to complete, a scheme to build, a facility running out of term. We understand the situation, then structure the route that supports it.
Where a situation does not support the funding being sought, we say so at the outset rather than test the market and come back empty.
Structured properly. Managed through to drawdown.
Once the route is agreed, Arclen manages the transaction through lender engagement, terms, valuation, legal coordination, conditions and completion. Each stage is tracked against what the lender needs and what has to happen next.
The analysis establishes the position. Execution gets it completed.
Arclen structures, manages and coordinates the transaction. The lender makes the lending decision.
Discuss your transaction.
Tell us the asset, the requirement and the timeline. You will receive an initial view of your funding position and the structure that supports it. Fees are agreed in writing before work begins.