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A borrower case study featuring the chief executive of a development group undertaking an office building conversion in Nottingham

If you’re a typical 18-34 year old chances are according to a recent feature in the FT, you’re more likely to be saving for a holiday than a house.  Perhaps your children are in their twenties. Do they fit the trend? A survey from Eventbrite in 2014 found that 78 per cent of ‘millennials’ would prefer...

If there’s one thing you can take away from The Big Short-  the story of a handful of traders who made a fortune betting against the mortgages behind the housing bubble- it’s that when robust underwriting is ignored or sidelined the risk profile of a portfolio of mortgages becomes unquantifiable. Underwriting is a hugely powerful...

Today we are announcing the second equity investment into LendInvest by an experienced and expert external investor. Atomico, a venture capital investment firm that was founded by Niklas Zennström, the founder of Skype in 2006, has invested £17 million ($25m). This comes only nine months after we raised £22 million ($34m). In that time, so...

Our round-up of the second PropTech meetup in the LendInvest offices, where we welcomed more industry innovators to chat and network

As a borrower it’s important for you to have an exit strategy in place when taking out a property loan, either through refinance or sale.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the RESI Awards as one of the residential financiers of the year

If you’re planning to buy an investment property, you don’t have much time left before the new Stamp Duty rules come into place. It’s important to note that the deadline is not in line with the start of the new tax year, which is on April 6th. Instead, the new rules come in 5 days...

Auctions have long been a great source of investment properties for experienced professionals. But the market, worth three billion pounds in 2015, has traditionally been dominated by cash buyers. With only 20% of auction properties purchased using finance, the appeal of extra liquidity clearly isn’t proving strong enough for many investors, who would otherwise be...

When time is of the essence and your client needs access to property finance in a hurry, there are some things you can do to make sure you’ll achieve a quick property completion. Here we’ve put together a list of some of the information to have to hand to speed up the process of getting...