Small unsecured business loans can’t always deliver.

by Apr 26, 2025

For small businesses looking to raise money there are many solutions other than the traditional high street bank. With an increasing range of providers there is now an enormous array of products that a business owner can access for capital raising for business purposes.

Unsecured business loans are promoted as quick and easy to apply for and for most businesses will be a simple and straightforward solution, if obtainable they will almost certainly do the job. They’re not the cheapest but for smaller amounts which if all that is required, then good.

However, within the specialist business lending space there are alternatives, it is possible to obtain business loans using equity from property, whether that be the business owner’s residential property or an investment property or using semi or full commercial property. Providing security using property enables specialist lenders to consider much larger loans with repayments spread over longer terms, cases that a typical unsecured business lender will not entertain.

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