Everyone wish to own a beautiful home. With time, needs and desires change and similarly your housing needs change with time. If you are planning to change your property and want to buy a new home; you can opt for bridging loan because while buying and selling property, a financial gap may arise a financial gap which becomes difficult to fill. Bridging loans can help you fix that gap easily by providing financial assistance on time. Bridging loans can be obtained in two forms open end and closed end. You can choose any option depending on your requirement and which suits your situation. You can apply for open end bridging loans, if you are interested in buying a new property before selling the previous one. As against, if you have made a final decision of selling existing property prior to buying a new one then closed end bridging loans will be the most suitable option. In nature bridging loans are secured loans and you have to pledge your either you're new or old property as security against the loan amount. You can offer to-let property, auction properties, commercial and semi commercial property and retail shops as security. By placing collateral you can borrower a substantial amount ranging from ?100,000 to ?400,000. The repayment term of bridging loans is short varies from 1-12 months. The loan amount is decided after evaluating value of your collateral, financial standing and repaying ability. Higher the market value of the asset, higher will be the loan amount offered. So in case you want to raise a substantial loan amount you should place property that has a higher market value. Bridging loans carry slightly higher rate of interest as they are short term loans. Bridging loans can be applied by borrowers facing bad credit records as well. Those with bad credit like arrears, defaults, late payments, missed payments, CCJs and IVA can easily entail these loans. Bridging loans can be applied online and offline. You can search for lower rate deals by putting any efforts in researching well. Online processing is hassle free and you can attain funds easily.