As the demand for social housing continues to rise, more private landlords are choosing to collaborate with Local Authorities to provide essential accommodation across a diverse range of community needs.
To support this growing sector, we’re enhancing our lending criteria and introducing a more streamlined legal process, which means we can support your clients with reliable and straightforward funding for this style of property investment.
What’s new? A simpler legal process
- Reduced lease requirements, focusing on ensuring the basics are in place
- No upfront lease reviews – everything is handled as part of the legal process
Lending criteria enhancements
Social Housing available on our range of Complex Buy-to-Let and Structured Real Estate products:
- Loans from £50k to £50m
- Competitive rates starting from 4.79%
- Available across a range of property types
Shawbrook provides £19m funding solution for Social Housing project across Manchester
We provided a £19 million structured loan with no personal or corporate guarantees, tailored to meet the needs of a complex ownership structure involving a Guernsey trust. The funding enabled the refinance of 153 houses across Greater Manchester that were mostly leased to a national Social Housing operator, helping to address the increasing demand for social housing in the North.


