A specialist property lender has completed a £1.3 million phased development finance facility to support the construction of five new homes in Yeadon, the West Yorkshire town best known as the site of Leeds Bradford Airport. While modest in scale compared to the headline-grabbing mega-schemes that dominate national coverage, this transaction is a useful barometer of a much larger and more consequential trend: the steady return of confidence to the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) housebuilding sector, which has been starved of accessible finance for the better part of a decade.