Updated 31 October 2026
Grants and funding for property and real estate businesses
Schemes open today that name property and real estate businesses in their published criteria, or fund the kind of work property and real estate businesses do. Read from the funders' own pages and re-checked daily.
10 open today. Whether your business qualifies for any of them depends on your legal form, your size, your age and where you are, which is what the check does.
Which of these can you actually get?
Enter your company number. We read each funder’s own page against your business and tell you which fit, which do not, and why.
Check my businessWhat kind of funding these are
- Grants
- 6
- Loans
- 3
- Equity investment
- 1
A grant is money you keep. A tax relief lowers a bill rather than arriving as cash. In-kind support is training, credits or expert time instead of money. Loans and equity have to be paid back or bought back, and are worth treating as a different decision entirely.
Who can apply
Every one of these has published criteria. Across the 10, the conditions that come up most are that you must:
- work in a named sector6 of 10
- be a particular kind of organisation5 of 10
- have been trading for a set time3 of 10
- be under a headcount limit1 of 10
- be under a turnover limit1 of 10
Which of them you meet depends on your legal form, size, age and where you are registered. That is what the check reads for you, scheme by scheme, and it quotes the funder’s own sentence beside each answer.
What the money is for
- Property improvements 5
- Premises 4
- Website and ecommerce 3
- Equipment 3
- Staff training 3
- Business growth 3
- Start-up costs 2
- Innovation and new products 1
How to apply
You apply to the funder, never to us. Every scheme above links straight to its own page, and that page is the only thing that decides whether you get it.
Before you spend an afternoon on a form, three things are worth checking: that you are inside the deadline — 1 of these close within the month; that you have not already started or paid for the work, which a great many grants refuse; and that you can fund the share they expect you to.
Most refusals are not close calls. They are a rule the applicant never saw, in a sentence on the funder’s own page.
Where else to look
The government publishes its own list, free, and you should use it. What is above is wider than that list, because it also holds council schemes, tax reliefs and in-kind support that Find a Grant does not carry — but if you only want a list, start there.
Find a grant, on GOV.UKThe 10 open today
Loan
Property Development Finance
Development Bank of Wales
Up to£10,000,000
The Development Bank of Wales lends to developers building residential, mixed-use, commercial and industrial property in Wales. Loans run from £150,000 up to £10 million, with terms of up to four years for residential schemes and five years for commercial ones, at fixed interest rates stated as 6.5% to 10.5%. Speculative schemes without pre-sales or pre-lets are accepted, and residential developments meeting green build standards can get up to a 2% cut in loan fees.
RollingThe funder’s page
Loan
Charity Bank Impact Lending
Charity Bank
Up to£7,000,000
Charity Bank offers secured loans of £250,000 to £5-7 million to UK charities and social-purpose organisations, and to impact-led private businesses in housing, health and social care, children's care or environmental sectors. Funds can be used for refinancing, property purchase, development, refurbishment, energy efficiency and cashflow.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
SWEF Enterprise Fund Business Grant
Community Foundation Northern Ireland
Up to£2,000
Community Foundation Northern Ireland, in partnership with SWEF Enterprise Fund, offers grants of up to £2,000 to young NI-based entrepreneurs who cannot afford to invest in their own business. The grant is aimed at early-stage sole traders, limited companies and CICs limited by shares, trading less than 2.5 years, and can go towards equipment, prototypes, a website/booking system or training.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
SWEF Enterprise Fund – Business Grants
Community Foundation for Staffordshire & Shropshire
Up to£2,000
Business Grants of up to £2,000 for young sole traders, partnerships, limited companies and CICs in Staffordshire or Stoke-on-Trent that have been trading under 2.5 years and need support to grow. Grants do not need to be repaid.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
Electric vehicle chargepoint grant for residential landlords
Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
Up to£500
Residential landlords and organisations that own or manage rented homes can claim support towards buying and installing electric vehicle chargepoints at their properties. The grant covers 75% of purchase and installation costs, capped at £500 per socket, for up to 200 sockets a year. Applicants must be registered at Companies House or VAT registered and must use an OZEV-authorised installer.
Closes 31 March 2027The funder’s page
Grant
SWEF Enterprise Fund Start-Up Grant
SWEF Enterprise Fund (delivered by Community Foundation Northern Ireland)
Up to£500
A start-up grant for young people in Northern Ireland who are already taking practical steps to launch a business but cannot afford to invest in it themselves. Grants of up to £500 are available for pre-revenue or very early-revenue businesses, with the possibility of a further top-up to £1,500 after six months of progress. Applications are administered online by Community Foundation Northern Ireland and considered on a rolling basis.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
Cladding Safety Scheme
Homes England
A government scheme that meets the cost of fixing life-safety fire risks from unsafe cladding on residential buildings over 11 metres tall (11-18m in London). Applications are made by the Responsible Entity for the building, such as a landlord, freeholder or managing organisation, where they cannot or should not fund the works themselves.
Closes 31 March 2030The funder’s page
Loan
Commercial Buy to Let Mortgage
NatWest
A secured mortgage from NatWest for registered limited companies wanting to buy non-residential commercial property to let out as trading premises. It offers a choice of fixed or variable interest rates, repayment terms of up to 25 years, and flexible repayment profiles including repayment holidays, subject to a deposit and NatWest's standard credit assessment.
RollingThe funder’s page
Grant
Grade A Office Development Grant Scheme
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
A council grant scheme supporting the development of Grade A quality office space in Newry city centre, covering new build, redevelopment and multi-use schemes, funded from a £3 million dedicated budget.
Closes 20 November 2026The funder’s page
Equity
Venture Capital Schemes (EIS, SEIS, VCT) — raise investment for your company
HM Revenue & Customs
Venture capital schemes let small and medium UK companies raise equity investment by offering their investors tax reliefs. The Enterprise Investment Scheme, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, and Venture Capital Trusts each set different limits on how much a company can raise and different eligibility conditions on company size, age and trade.
RollingThe funder’s page