Bridge Loans Can Be A Useful Tool Bridge financing or a bridge loan is a short-term loan that is used as a way to provide funding for the purchase of a new property while the borrower awaits the sale of his existing property. Unless everything is in proper order, it's tricky to coordinate the sale of one property and the purchase of another property so that the transactions occur simultaneously.Bridge financing makes such...... Similar Editorial : Bridge Loans by Edwin Linares. | Source : Student Loan Consolidation Program