We won the 2025 YM Property Awards “Emerging Property Developer of the Year” award, hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 28th November 2024.
You can view the winner announcement on the YM website here.
Focus Commercial have featured in a number of podcasts. Please see below for links to listen and watch them:
We have been featured in Development Finance Today.
The funding — provided at 55% LTGDV and 72% LTC — will help fund the build cost for eight three-bedroom homes with a total GDV of £1.96m.
Lee Barton, director at PMJ Capital, said: “This is the second scheme we have funded for Markbuild, both of which were introduced to us via John McNamara, [head of real estate] at Focus Commercial.
We were recently featured in Insider Media about our involvement with WGJ Properties, and how we helped them secure a £950,000 loan which will go towards the development of new apartments in New Brighton, Wirral.
Development Finance Today has launched its fourth filmed roundtable session with Focus Commercial in attendance, which discussed the importance of lender relationships following drawdown.
They discussed how often lenders, brokers, and developers should communicate with each other after drawdown, why this impacts the release of tranches of funds, and how issues can be detected and mitigated early in the process.
John McNamara was featured recently in an article on Development Finance Today, discussing how initial development appraisals are “critical” in getting the basic dynamics of a scheme across to a lender.
Focus Commercial gave its thoughts on recent reports of a 150% increase in problem development lending cases over the last 12 months.
John McNamara was featured in Development Finance Today discussing several factors that can cause an increase in problem development lending cases.
Merseyside-based Hope Capital has just facilitated its largest ever loan deal.
The bridging firm said that the £3.3m loan was for the purchase of a large mixed-use building.
