Fast Short Term Business Loans

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At Secured Lending, we help business owners access fast, practical funding solutions tailored to short-term needs. Our short-term loans are typically 1 to 24 months in duration and are required to be secured against property.

What Are Short Term Loans?

Short term loans are designed to provide businesses with the funds they need to cover short-term financial needs: working capital, unexpected expenses, or time-sensitive investment opportunities. They are typically repaid within 1 to 24 months.

Why Secured Lending?

Our short-term loans are designed for situations where funding is not immediately available from traditional sources such as banks. We pride ourselves on our ability to assess your financial needs in a timely manner and can fund your loan within 24 hours.

  • •Finance within 24 hours of approval
  • •Loans from $250,000 to $10 million
  • •Rates from 9.7% p.a.
  • •Terms from 1 to 24 months
  • •Secured against residential or commercial property
  • •No long-term lock-ins or rigid exit penalties

Common Uses for Short Term Finance

  • •Bridging cash flow gaps between invoices or settlement dates
  • •Working capital to fund operations, payroll, or supplier payments
  • •Urgent tax debt or ATO liabilities requiring immediate resolution
  • •Property and real estate: development site acquisitions, auction funding, deposits
  • •Business acquisitions, mergers, partner buyouts, or franchise purchases
  • •Equipment purchase, machinery finance, or commercial vehicle funding
  • •Refinancing expiring loans or exiting restrictive facilities

Short Term Loans for Business Owners With Bad Credit

Short term lending is where a bad credit file matters least, because the loan is repaid from a specific event rather than out of ongoing trading. We look at the property, the equity inside 70% LVR and what retires the debt. Defaults, ATO arrears and prior declines are ordinary on these files. Rates from 9.7% p.a., terms of 1 to 24 months, funded within 24 hours.

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Industries We Service

Short term loans for builders and contractors

Construction

A short term loan tops up working capital for a defined period, such as the months a progress claim or retention is overdue. It runs for months rather than years, and it is repaid once the job that created the need is finished.

It is repaid by the progress payment, practical completion, or the sale of the security. A builder about to tender does not want a long facility sitting on the balance sheet, and this is the version of that debt which is not still there in three years.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Fund a job from mobilisation to final claim, and no longer
  • Cover a defined cash flow gap without a multi-year facility
  • Keep the balance sheet clean ahead of the next tender
  • Repay in full when the contract that created the debt pays
  • Borrow for a fixed window rather than an open-ended line
  • Clear the facility before the next job is priced
Private lending for Construction

Short term loans for retailers

Retail

A short term loan funds a season rather than a decade, secured against a director's home or investment property. The term is set to the trading period the money is actually for.

It is repaid out of the takings from the season the stock was bought for. Retail debt that outlasts the season it was raised for becomes permanent debt, and a fixed end date is what prevents it.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Fund one season and clear it from that season's takings
  • Borrow across a trading window rather than indefinitely
  • Avoid debt that outlives the stock it paid for
  • Cover a fit-out and clear it before the next lease review
  • Keep a director's property free of a long-dated charge
  • Repay in full at the end of a defined term
Private lending for Retail

Short term loans for pubs, hotels and venues

Hospitality

A short term loan is set to the length of the need it funds, whether that is topping up working capital through a quiet season, a refurbishment or a licence purchase. Each of those has an end date, and so does the facility.

It is repaid from the trade the work unlocks, or from the sale of an outgoing venue. A venue carrying long-dated debt is harder to sell and harder to refinance, and a facility with a known end date keeps the freehold clean.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Fund a refurbishment and clear it from the season it serves
  • Borrow across a defined project rather than indefinitely
  • Keep the freehold clean for a future sale or refinance
  • Repay from the trade the work was done to generate
  • Avoid a long-dated charge over venue property you may sell
  • Clear the facility before the next trading year begins
Private lending for Hospitality

Short term loans for wholesalers and importers

Wholesale and Distribution

A short term loan is sized to one stock cycle, secured against the warehouse or a director's property. Stock is bought, sold and paid for inside a known window, and the facility matches it.

It is repaid as that stock sells through. Financing a cycle with a permanent facility means paying for capital in the months you are not using it, and a term matched to the cycle does not.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Borrow for one stock cycle and repay as it sells through
  • Match the term to the shipment rather than to a calendar
  • Avoid paying for capital in the months you are not using it
  • Clear the facility before the next container is ordered
  • Keep the warehouse free of a long-dated charge
  • Repay in full without an early repayment negotiation
Private lending for Wholesale and Distribution

Short term loans for manufacturers

Manufacturing

A short term loan is set to the length of the order it funds, secured against the factory or a director's property.

It is repaid when the customer pays. A single large order does not justify a permanent facility, and a term matched to the delivery and payment cycle means the debt ends when the order does.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Fund one order and clear it when the customer pays
  • Match the term to the delivery and payment cycle
  • Avoid a permanent facility for a one-off order
  • Keep the factory free of a long-dated charge
  • Clear the debt before the next production run is quoted
  • Borrow for the length of a contract, not beyond it
Private lending for Manufacturing

Short term loans for transport and warehousing operators

Transport and Warehousing

A short term loan runs for the ramp-up period of a contract, secured against the depot, the warehouse or a director's property.

It is repaid from contract receipts, or by an asset finance facility once the equipment is earning. Standing up a fleet and being paid for using it are months apart, and the facility is written for that, not for years.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Fund a contract ramp-up and clear it from the receipts
  • Bridge to an asset finance facility rather than replace one
  • Match the term to the ramp-up, not to the contract length
  • Avoid a long-dated charge over the depot property
  • Clear the facility once the fleet is earning
  • Borrow without committing the business for years
Private lending for Transport and Warehousing

Short term loans for technology companies

Technology

A short term loan runs for weeks or months, until the event that repays it happens: the round closes, the R&D refund is paid, the enterprise invoice settles, or a bank facility arrives.

The facility is discharged as soon as the round, the refund or the invoice pays it out. It is not intended to become the company's long-term debt, and there are no ongoing covenants once it is repaid.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Borrow for the eight weeks between a term sheet and the money arriving
  • Bridge to an R&D tax incentive refund with a known assessment period
  • Cover three months rather than commit to a multi-year facility
  • Repay the loan on the day the round completes
  • Repay the facility before a due diligence process begins
  • Fund a contract that starts in three weeks and pays in five months
Private lending for Technology

Short term loans for property developers

Property Development

A short term loan runs to the settlement, secured against the site, completed stock, or another property in the portfolio.

It is repaid when the stock settles or a construction facility takes over. Development debt is meant to be temporary by design, and a term set to the settlement rather than to a lender's preference is what keeps it that way.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Borrow to a settlement date rather than an open term
  • Clear the facility as lots settle
  • Avoid debt that outlives the project that created it
  • Bridge to a construction facility rather than replace one
  • Keep the site clean for a senior lender to fund behind
  • Match the term to the programme, not to a credit policy
Private lending for Property Development

Short term loans for property investors

Real Estate and Property Investors

A short term loan runs to the sale or the refinance, secured against an investment property or the wider portfolio.

It is repaid when the property settles, or when a longer-term facility takes over. An investor does not want a private facility sitting on the portfolio permanently, and this one is written to come off it.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Borrow to a sale date rather than an open-ended term
  • Take a private facility off the portfolio once it has done its job
  • Fund a renovation and repay on the revaluation or the sale
  • Avoid a long-dated charge across several titles
  • Bridge to a longer-term lender rather than replace one
  • Hold the debt only for as long as the strategy needs it
Private lending for Real Estate and Property Investors

Short term loans for practices and professional firms

Professional Services

A short term loan runs until the practice facility settles, secured against a director's home or investment property.

It is repaid when that facility settles. It exists to cover a gap of weeks or months, not to become the practice's long-term debt, and it is discharged from the director's property when the permanent lender arrives.

A short term loan can help you:

  • Cover the gap until a practice facility settles
  • Borrow for weeks or months rather than years
  • Take the charge off a director's home once the deal is done
  • Clear the facility the day the practice loan lands
  • Avoid a private facility becoming permanent practice debt
  • Borrow without a covenant that outlasts the transaction
Private lending for Professional Services

"Short term lending runs smoothest when the objective is clear from day one, and that is a conversation we are happy to lead. Once we understand the LVR, the security, and how the facility will be repaid, we can move quickly on approval and keep everything running cleanly through to the exit."

Gino Tabila

Gino Tabila

Associate Director

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✓24-hour settlements, loans from $250k
✓Rates from 9.7% p.a. | Terms 1 to 24 months

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Recently Asked Questions

Yes, where the bank's payout figure fits inside 70% of your home's value. Your company is the borrower and your home secures the loan. The insurance payment can be the planned repayment, with a sale or a bank refinance as the second source, and the term can be set at three or four months to allow for a delay in the claim. Send us the default notice, the bank's written payout figure and the insurer's acceptance of the claim with its expected payment date. We lend against the home, never against the claim or the policy.

Yes, our terms start at one month and run to 24 months. A seven week need would usually be written as a two or three month term so a late settlement does not leave you out of time. Ask us how early repayment works on your loan before you sign, and have your solicitor read the loan documents.

We need to learn your scenario further, but you do not need the bank's approval in hand to start. We need a dated plan: when the returns will be lodged, which bank, and what it has said so far. The more of that you can show in writing, the stronger the exit. A broker's or accountant's letter setting out the timeline helps.

Yes. The loan is secured by a mortgage over your investment property, not over the business you are buying, and the bank loan can be the exit once it is approved. If the investment property is worth $2.5 million with $300,000 owing, 70% of the value is $1.75 million, which leaves about $1.45 million of room, enough for the $1.2 million plus costs.

It can. We assess the equity in the property inside our 70% limit and how the loan will be repaid, not whether last year's profit and loss passes a bank's serviceability test. What matters most is the exit. Show us the sale, refinance or contracted income that repays the loan within the term, with dates.

Yes. The three units together are worth about $1.95 million, and 70% of that is $1.365 million. If each has $150,000 owing, $450,000 in total, that leaves about $915,000 of room before costs. We can look at second mortgages behind each bank, subject to what each bank's loan terms allow, or at refinancing all three loans into first mortgages.

Yes, we lend against regional property as well as metropolitan property. Our valuation team is in house and assesses each property on its own merits. Send the address, what the building is used for and any lease in place, and we will tell you early what it supports.

Yes. A formal bank approval with a funding date is a documented exit, and a one or two month term covers six weeks. Send the bank's approval letter and the date you need the money. Check with the bank that our mortgage being repaid from its loan does not change its own conditions.

It can, where the exit does not depend on the refund date alone. An ATO review has no fixed end date, so we would want a second way to repay, such as a property sale or a refinance, as well as the refund. Set the term with room to spare, and ask your accountant for their best estimate of when the review will be finished.

Because the amount is set by the equity in the property, not by an unsecured lending limit. We lend from $250,000, up to 70% of the property's value, at rates from 9.7% p.a. If the property you can offer has $400,000 or more of room inside that 70%, the full amount can be one loan with one exit.

Yes. The company is the borrower, and the investment property you own is the security. On an asset-backed loan we do not need full financial statements or tax returns. Title details for the property, identification, a rates notice and an accountant's declaration or six months of business bank statements cover most files. With eight months of trading, the company's bank statements will show the business is running. The exit still needs a date on it.

We can fund your loan within 24 hours of approval in many cases. Our in-house property valuation team assesses your security simultaneously with your application, which is how we move faster than traditional lenders.

Our short-term loans are secured against Australian property, whether residential, commercial or industrial. The quality and value of your security property is the primary factor in our assessment.

Yes. We assess the security property and your exit strategy, not your credit score. Borrowers carrying previous defaults, ATO debt, judgments or recent arrears are funded here every week. What has to hold up is the equity, which must sit inside 70% LVR, and a documented path to repayment inside the 1 to 24 month term.

We lend from $250,000 for short-term business loans. Most loans are $250,000 to $10 million, and larger loans are assessed case by case once we understand the scenario fully.

We lend to a wide range of businesses across Australia, from SMEs to property developers, borrowing through a company, including a company acting as trustee. We lend to companies, not to individuals. If your business has a clear short-term funding need and suitable property security, we can help.

Far less than a bank asks for. Title details for the security property, the borrowing entity and its directors, identification, a rates notice, and enough evidence of position to make sense of the request. An accountant declaration or six months of business bank statements covers most files. Full financial statements and tax returns are not required on an asset-backed deal.

Yes. We have a page for each common situation, including auction purchases, off-the-plan settlements and business purchases, each with the steps and documents.

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$500M+ funded

Get an indicative offer within hours, not weeks.

No credit check. No obligation.

Why Secured Lending?

✓Australian private lender, $500M+ funded
✓We use our own funds for fast decisions
✓24-hour settlements, loans from $250k
✓Rates from 9.7% p.a. | Terms 1 to 24 months

Are you a broker? Find out why brokers love working with us.

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