February 24, 2016
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...
February 22, 2016
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...
February 17, 2016
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...
February 17, 2016
As we continue in our mission to reinvent the property finance market, we’re rapidly expanding our team and our business beyond London and the Southeast. With that in mind, we’re now planning to expand to Scotland, so we’re recruiting a Scotland-based Business Development Manager to join the LendInvest team. At a later date this will...
February 16, 2016
We’re really excited to be nominated for the European FinTech Awards, which recognises the most innovative FinTech companies in Europe. The voting system opened 15th February and will end 15th March 2016, with the final ceremony taking place in Amsterdam 14th April. Votes from you – the general public – will have a weight of...
February 16, 2016
Continuing our tour around Europe looking at exciting FinTech hotspots, we’ve stopped off in Paris to see what’s happening there and which of the French capital’s FinTech companies are winning attention. It’d be fair to say that the Paris FinTech sector took a little longer to take off than in other major European cities, but...
February 8, 2016
Recently the LendInvest deal team completed the fastest ever bridging deal in under 3 days, setting a new benchmark for our company. We’ve also been nominated for the European FinTech Awards, which recognises FinTech companies from all over Europe. Here are some of the places we’ve been mentioned in the press: Our fastest bridging deal...
February 8, 2016
Last week we welcomed Hugo Davies as Capital Markets Associate. Hugo joins us from Goldman Sachs, where he worked in Liquidity & Collateral Management. Outside of work, Hugo loves to cook. He’s been featured in BBC Good Food, worked on Waitrose campaigns and developed coconut oil recipes for Vita Coco. Hugo, tell us what you...
February 5, 2016
We recap our first PropTech meetup, an informal gathering of some of PropTech’s leading innovators to gather and exchange ideas
February 4, 2016
We pride ourselves on speed of delivery at LendInvest, which is why both borrowers and intermediaries come to us when they need a fast and reliable service. So we’re excited to announce that we’ve now completed our fastest ever bridging finance deal within just three working days. Within that short time frame we were able to...