Delivering vital commercial infrastructure in Cheshire, with Thistlewood Properties

A long‑standing family business, backed with certainty and speed

Thistlewood Properties is a family‑run business, established in 1999, with a long‑term commitment to delivering developments that provide real value to local communities. In this case study, the team shares insight into its journey, its growth ambitions, and the importance of having a finance partner it can rely on.

Filmed on site where Thistlewood are building a new Tesco Express store to support a new housing development, near Chester. The video highlights the development that will deliver vital local infrastructure, underlining Thistlewood’s focus on building projects with purpose and long‑term benefit.

The film also explores Thistlewood’s relationship with Close Brothers Property Finance, which began in 2018. Since then, the business has grown from delivering one residential development per year to targeting eight to ten commercial developments annually. Certainty of funding, ease of process and the ability to draw down funds quickly are identified as critical to supporting that growth. Thistlewood emphasises the importance of having the backing of a bank when bidding on sites, as well as the reassurance of a close working relationship and open communication. 

Having grown together over multiple generations, Thistlewood Properties and Close Brothers Property Finance continue to work in partnership, with a shared ambition to build on that relationship into the future.