LendInvest

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LendInvest
Company type Public
AIM: LINV
Industry Fintech
Founded2013;11 years ago (2013) spun out of Montello
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Key people
Rod Lockhart, CEO
Christian Faes, Executive Chairman & Co-founder
Ian Thomas, CIO & Co-founder
ProductsResidential and commercial mortgages
Investment platform
Services Financial services
Website lendinvest.com

LendInvest is a British non-bank mortgage lender which provides a property lending and investing platform. [1] [2] [3] As an alternative fintech lender in the property market, LendInvest provides finance to property professionals and small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) around the UK. [4] [5] [6] [7] It also makes it possible for individuals, corporates and institutions to invest in secured property loans originated and underwritten by its mortgage team. [8]

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LendInvest operates throughout the UK with staff based regionally covering Southern England, Northern England and Scotland. [9] LendInvest is a leading FinTech companies in the UK. [10] [11]

LendInvest was launched in 2013 when it was spun out of Montello, [12] a London-based specialist short-term property finance lender. LendInvest is a publicly listed company and is backed by Atomico, the European venture capital investment fund co-founded by Niklas Zennström, which invested £17 million in the company in March 2016. [13] [14]

History

Since 2015, LendInvest has published an independently audited Annual Report on its website. [15] In the year to 31 March 2017, LendInvest reported 20% revenue growth to £40 million and an underlying profit from operations of £2.6 million. [16]

In February 2017, LendInvest published a report entitled "Starting small to build more homes: A blueprint for better policymaking in the property SME market", [17] that revealed that SMEs in the housebuilding sector have been failing at alarming rates, [18] and argues that the government could help to resolve the country's chronic housing shortage by rebooting its strategy to help smaller property firms. [19] The report was formally launched on 21 March 2017 by Conor Burns MP. [20]

In June 2017, LendInvest received a third SQ1 Servicer Quality Rating from European ratings agency ARC Ratings. [21] ARC Rating assesses the process used by LendInvest to originate, underwrite and service property loans. [22]

In September 2016, LendInvest launched the LendInvest Property Development Academy, [23] a non-profit two day course for aspiring property entrepreneurs to learn how to better equip themselves with the skills they need to grow their property development portfolios. [24] Academy courses are held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Birmingham. [25] The Academy was launched in collaboration with the University of Reading [26] and is supported by the Home Builders' Federation. [27] The initiative was attended by the Scottish government in June 2017 when Minister for Housing Kevin Stewart MSP launched the Edinburgh course. [28]

In November 2017, LendInvest launched into the UK Buy-to-Let market [29] and in June 2019 became the first Fintech to securitise its own assets in a £259 million securitisation of Buy-to-Let loans. [30]

LendInvest became a public company in July 2021, listing on the London Stock Exchange's AIM. [31]

Products

LendInvest provides short-term financing options, and Buy-to-Let mortgages for UK-based property investors. [32]

On 10 August 2017, LendInvest launched a listed retail bond on the London Stock Exchange. [3] The process to raise LendInvest's first retail bond was closed early and oversubscribed. [33] The retail bond is the first to be issued by a FinTech business and constitutes a fourth funding channel for the company. [33] LendInvest's first retail bond was added by the Daily Telegraph's Questor share tip column to its £500,000 Income Portfolio on 4 August 2017. [34]

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