Testimonials

I have dealt with Courtstown Finance and their Service Partners Smerwick Corporate since 2017, and found them to be a highly professional operation, who deliver efficiently, from initial engagement through to completion and drawdown. The funding provided by Courtstown has allowed my clients to fund property transactions via medium term property finance, outside of their ongoing working capital & other facilities with their main bankers. Most recently, in 2025, Courtstown and Smerwick engaged at a pace which is not achievable with a bank or larger finance house, to sanction a property loan facility. This allowed my clients to move quickly to sale agreed, to secure the purchase of a warehouse property, to meet urgent requirements arising from growth in their business.

As an ex-pat based abroad for many years, with a commercial property portfolio in Dublin, I found that the service from my Irish bank, with which I had banked for decades, had disimproved significantly in recent years, which seems to be a common experience. My Irish property advisors had dealt with Smerwick for many years, and recommended Courtstown Finance, when I was seeking an equity release on part of my Irish property portfolio,to fund enhancement expenditure on two of my properties. After waiting for months previously for responses from my Irish bank, it was a pleasant surprise to receive an immediate response from Smerwick to my initial enquiry, and I had indicative terms from Courtstown within days. The engagement with Courtstown, Smerwick, and the Lender’s lawyers Shields Sadleir was seamless throughout the transaction, and my presence abroad presented no difficulty in dealing with them. The expertise within their team actually resulted in various aspects of the legals in relation to the properties being tidied up over the course of the transaction, which will be to my advantage whenever I sell the properties in the future.

I had dealt with Finbarr Flahive, Smerwick Corporate, across a number of businesses, for many years. I approached Smerwick , who assisted in structuring a borrowing proposal to Courtstown for a re-fi and equity release from my Irish property assets, within a complex Irl/UK/European property portfolio. Finbarr assisted in structuring the proposal to meet Courtstown’s lending criteria, and this new 5 year Courtstown facility, secured on a quality retail asset in Ireland, provides the working capital I needed for value-add projects across my UK and European properties. Direct access to the senior lending team in Ger and Colm , and participation in all parties Teams calls , which included their SSLT legal team, when required in the course of the transaction, was also of great benefit.