TECH

The UK property market remains a resilient performer, blending value creation for developers with the stability of asset-backed returns for investors.  Increasingly, technology has become a critical driver of growth in the sector, addressing inefficiencies and unlocking new opportunities across the sector.  This focus on the value of technology in disrupting and evolving the sector...

The ambition of LendInvest Mortgages is clear: make every mortgage simple by bringing people and technology together for a simple experience for brokers and their customers.  We have been on this journey for over 15 years, growing our teams to provide quick access to a specialist throughout your customers application process. Now, that’s the people...

by Konnaire Scannell, Lead Product Designer Part one of a series on how we use user insight in the LendInvest Product and Design team, this time focussing on the surprises you sometimes find trying to research a totally different hypothesis. Any screenshots showing data have been reworked to retain anonymity. About the project Following on...

by Alex Brownbridge, Product Team Lead A major milestone for LendInvest has been the introduction of AVMs in our Broker Portal for Bridging; to speed up the loan’s lifecycle, reduce costs and put you in control of your loan. Technology has facilitated this gear-shift through Rightmove’s API, paired with Salesforce and LendInvest’s very own rules...

Tech Meetup is an event for everyone in the tech community in and around Glasgow, welcoming everyone from experienced developers to students or those starting out their careers. LendInvest have been sponsoring this event since January 2023 as part of our efforts to support the thriving tech community in Glasgow and grow our presence in...

by Konnaire Scannell, Senior Product Designer  The what Here at LendInvest we appreciate that design thinking applied correctly means the difference between a forgettable experience and one a broker will remember forever. It’s my opinion that we should strive to aim for the forgettable as often as possible. We’re all familiar with the Jared Spool...

by Chris Levy, Senior Software Engineer At LendInvest we like to keep up with the latest technologies. A great way to do this is to attend conferences and meetups with tech user groups. In fact, we host multiple Tech (and non-Tech) meetups in our offices in London and Glasgow. One such meetup series is PHP...

by Meenakshi Choudhary, QA Engineering Manager Quality assurance (QA) is often assumed to be a thin slice of work—something that happens in between writing code and getting it deployed to production. But in reality it doesn’t happen at just one point in time, and it encompasses more than the testing tools, the number of tests...

by Ru Arup, Data Team Lead. Connect with Ru on LinkedIn. As LendInvest has expanded to become a technology-first public business, the number of data sources, variation and quantum of data has grown enormously. For each loan application we are now collecting tens of thousands of data points to help us analyse credit risk and...

And you are selling design. Tim Brown, Executive Chair of IDEO defines design thinking as ‘…a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success’. It is an approach to problem solving which emphasises both empathy for the...