Tagged: mortgages

November 11, 2016 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a leading online mortgage lender in the UK, has announced the speaker line-up for the inaugural Property Development Academy course, scheduled for today and tomorrow (November 11th & 12th).  LendInvest announced this new initiative this past fall as a way to help small developers… Read More

November 2, 2016 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

LoanDepot, founded by Anthony Hsieh less than 7 years ago, has become the 5th largest mortgage lender by volume according to the most recent report by Inside Mortgage Finance.  In 2015, loanDepot was acknowledged as the 7th largest retail mortgage provider. Joining loanDepot in the… Read More

October 7, 2016 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Online commercial mortgage marketplace lender LendInvest has released financial results and for the 3rd year running has reported a profit of £3.4 million. The company also stated that revenue rose 133% in the 12 months ending in March 2016. Gross revenue hit £32 million versus… Read More

September 14, 2016 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, an online mortgage marketplace that has facilitated over £740 million in financing, has launched the “first” Property Development Academy in an attempt to boost construction of new homes. The UK has had supply challenges for housing for some time now. Of course, the result… Read More

September 10, 2016 @ 5:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Foreshadowing the inevitability for all forms of finance moving online, Moody’s has published a report stating the Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS) will soon be issued by marketplace lending platforms. They also believe that current regulatory and securitization frameworks will reduce additional risk with RMBS… Read More

August 10, 2016 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mortgage marketplace, LendingHome, announced on Wednesday it had appointed Cynthia Chen as its new chief risk officer. Chen has over ten years of experience in providing risk and mortgage underwriting leadership and has held position at various financial institutions including Fannie Mae, Washington Mutual, Ally Bank, and… Read More

July 23, 2016 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

  John Goodall and Gray Stern launched their company, Landbay, with the help of Seedrs.  Before their website was even live, Goodall and Stern were raising seed capital on the crowdfunding platform for their vision of mortgage finance.  Their first funding round was for only £50,000… Read More

June 10, 2016 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Short term property lender LendInvest, has launched a new website designed to appeal to mortgage intermediaries. LendInvest states that further online tools will be added to the intermediary site in the coming months.  For now the Intermediaries site provides detailed information on loans as well… Read More

March 14, 2016 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Commercial mortgage lender LendInvest has received a £17 million Series Be investment from Atomico, the venture capital firm created by Skype creator Niklas Zennerström. Mattias Ljungman, who formed Atomico with Zennström, will take a seat on the LendInvest board.  Since 2006, Ljungman has been involved… Read More

February 22, 2016 @ 3:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest is broadening the reach of its mortgage-based lending platform. The P2P lender has traditionally focused on London and the Southeast but now it is moving into Scotland. This expansion marks LendInvest’s first official presence outside London and is part of an intent to expand operations into… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Zoopla (LSE:ZPLA) has invested an undisclosed sum in peer to peer mortgage lender Landbay.  The announcement was revealed in a corporate filing by Zoopla as well as a statement on the Landbay site.  Zoopla also announced partnership/investments in PropertyDetective, FixFlo and Trussle, each representing an important vertical… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 1:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer (marketplace) lending is poised to supplant all types of debt markets. While many platforms have focused on the low hanging fruit of providing consumer credit, online lending will someday soon be the norm across many verticals.  In the UK, the mortgage market… Read More

February 2, 2016 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Rock Holdings, the parent company of Quicken Loans, has  updated its newest brand. RocketLoans, built from the ground up, has migrated from mortgages to personal loans thus making a bigger commit to internet finance.  Consumers may now borrow up to $35,000 with fixed interest rates for… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 8:03 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest Predicts it May Top £1 billion before Year’s End. Lendinvest has released that in the first few days of 2016 the platform topped £500 million in commercial property lending. According to the platform, today in the UK approximately 10% of all peer to peer… Read More

December 18, 2015 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Commercial mortgage lender LendInvest will close out 2015 having lent £250 million for the year bringing the total since the company was founded to £470 million. Founded in 2013, the peer to peer lender hailed 2015 as a “transformative” year. LendInvest stated that no investor… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, the world’s largest P2P mortgage platform, has published its UK Buy to Let (BTL) Index tracking the changes in yields, gains and trends. LendInvest is incorporating data since 2010 to help highlight perspective.  According to the company, there persists interesting differences within regional UK markets…. Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 7:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Fast growing peer to peer lender Landbay has announced a new partnership with My Home Move. Landbay was said to be pleased to have found a conveyancing partner who shares their same vision of using technology to disrupt the incumbent mortgage market. My Home Move… Read More

October 13, 2015 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Landbay has announced a site redesign and rebranding of its services that target the buy-to-let mortgage sector. Landbay hired creative agency Minimart to reposition the firm. Landbay explained that as the P2P sector continues to build public awareness, Landbay views… Read More

October 12, 2015 @ 7:35 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a UK-based peer to peer lending platform that targets the mortgage market, has reported a profit of £3.1 million on revenue of £15 million for the year ending March 2015.  LendInvest reported a profit in 2014 of £1.2 million on revenue of £5 million…. Read More

October 7, 2015 @ 10:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a “Call for Input” (CFI) today regarding the massive mortgage industry in the UK.  The FCA is seeking input from interested parties to “identify potential areas where competition may not be working well and could be improved”.  The FCA… Read More