"By widening the scope to include deeper insight into market funding and development finance, we can help to strengthen understanding of the sector and reinforce confidence, ensuring the market continues to develop on a transparent and credible footing"
- Adam Tyler - BDLA
The Bridging & Development Lenders Association (BDLA), working with Interpath, has launched the 2026 UK bridging market survey, inviting lenders and brokers to share insight into trends shaping bridging finance and development lending.
The annual survey has become a key industry benchmark, designed to track sentiment, funding conditions and structural changes across the UK bridging sector. This year’s edition expands its scope to include a deeper analysis of market funding alongside new questions focused on development finance.
Organisers say the results will help build a clearer picture of how bridging finance is evolving, with findings used to support wider industry engagement and promotion, including at the Global ABS conference in Barcelona in June.
UK bridging market survey expands focus on development finance
The UK bridging market survey is now a central tool for understanding activity across short-term property lending, with this year’s version aiming to capture a broader view of how the sector is funded and where growth is emerging.
By widening the scope to include development finance, the survey seeks to map how lenders are adapting to shifting demand, regulatory conditions and investor appetite across both bridging and development lending markets.
Adam Tyler, chief executive of the BDLA (pictured), said, “Each year, this survey gives us an increasingly valuable snapshot of the bridging and development finance market. Building on the success of previous editions, the 2026 survey is set to be our biggest and most comprehensive yet."
"By widening the scope to include deeper insight into market funding and development finance, we can help to strengthen understanding of the sector and reinforce confidence, ensuring the market continues to develop on a transparent and credible footing.”
He said the expanded approach would help strengthen confidence in the sector and improve transparency across lending activity.
Interpath, which is supporting the initiative, said the data will provide a clearer view of sentiment and structural trends shaping future growth in the UK bridging market survey results.
Jack Dutton, director at Interpath, said: “The Bridging Market Survey has become an important barometer for the sector, providing insight not only into sentiment and lending activity, but also into the structural trends influencing future growth."
By working with the BDLA on this year’s survey, we hope to generate a robust picture of how the market is evolving, where confidence is strongest, and how lenders and brokers see the opportunities ahead. That intelligence is vital in helping promote the strength and maturity of the UK bridging industry to a broader audience.”
The survey is open to UK bridging lenders and brokers until 8 May 2026, with participants encouraged to contribute insights on current conditions and expectations for the year ahead.
