CROWDPROPERTY REVIEW

CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com) is the UK's leading specialist property project online lending platform in the UK, exceptionally efficiently matching the demand (quality property professionals undertaking quality property projects) and supply (retail/institutional investors) of capital for value-creating property projects, delivering a better deal for all – borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied UK housing environment and spend in the UK economy.

Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of the business meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring. Lending is focused on the SME property professional market, a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources. CrowdProperty funds property professionals undertaking any sort of property project (including auction purchases and bridging), structuring the perfect funding product and doing so with greater speed, ease, certainty and expertise than anyone in the market. As property people providing property finance, we intimately understand the market needs. 

CrowdProperty is authorised and regulated by the FCA, is an HMRC approved ISA / IFISA manager and is a founding member and only property development specialist platform in the Innovate Finance 36H Group (and formerly the only such platform on the board of the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association). CrowdProperty became the first and only property development/bridging P2P lender to become Brismo Verified, independently validating CrowdProperty’s market-leading performance, showing significant outperformance of Brismo's UK P2P Index.

CrowdProperty facilitates debt-based, asset-backed loan contracts between Investors and Borrowers via our online platform. Investment funds are from retail investors. CrowdProperty exists because we match the supply and demand of capital far more efficiently than traditional lending institutions, thereby giving both Investors and Borrowers a better deal.

We are solving major pains being experienced on both sides of our marketplace. On the one hand, property professionals are receiving appalling service from traditional funding providers, especially in terms of ease, speed, expertise and access to decision makers, all of which are pivotal to our proposition. On the other hand, the general public are mostly getting sub-inflation returns on their savings – according to the Bank of England there is £1.3tr in savings accounts earning on average 0.8% interest. The big reason we can offer higher returns of 8% is because of our structural cost advantage. We don’t have the high cost bases of traditional lenders, which include, for instance, branch networks, origination costs, legacy IT systems and regulatory cost of capital. We have purpose-built technology underpinning both very efficient and expertise-led systems and processes. Additionally, if we introduce interest rate changes, it is always applied to both sides of the marketplace. The CrowdProperty ISA then adds a tax-free cherry on top of the cake.

Additionally, this UK has a housing supply crisis and whilst the Government identifies small and medium-sized developers developing smaller parcels of land as a crucial part of the solution, traditional lending institutions either won't lend or make it very hard to borrow, despite significant demand. We know this because as property professionals, we've been there. We understand these frustrations through decades of personal investing and developing experience through multiple economic cycles.

As a result of our superior understanding, extensive hands-on experience, expertise-led due diligence and insistence on securing each project with a first legal charge, we have a 100% capital and interest payback track record.

CrowdProperty is different because we:

• Have a 100% track record in repaying Investors’ capital and interest
• Have no outstanding loans that are late in any way. This is based on ‘late’ being defined as any active loan going beyond the originally defined loan end date at launch of the loan (ie the intuitive definition).
• Always take first charge security
• Only lend on projects with planning permission already in place
• Attract the best quality projects as we offer competitive rates plus a swift and excellent service to property professionals
• Originate projects directly as part of the many ways that we match capital more efficiently, ensuring a better deal for both lenders and borrowers
• Have unparalleled, hands-on expertise of over 100 years in the property industry at the heart of the business, meaning projects are assessed with deep, specialist property experience
• Only ever consider projects independently proposed to our platform ensuring independent and impartial due diligence
• Are, and always have been, solely focused on what we do and our business model, asset class, instrument and security, continuously building stronger and deeper expertise
• Offer upmost transparency on our track record and projects listed through information on our website and through project webinars
• Are directly authorised and regulated by the FCA
• Are the only property development / bridging platform member of the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), the ‘top table’ of UK peer-to-peer lending, alongside other sector leaders
• Are the only property development / bridging platform to be Brismo Verified, underlining our commitment to disclosure best-practice and independent accountability for the performance of every loan that we originate both historically and going forward
• Have proprietary technology that has been built, continues to be developed and managed internally for absolute control over our proposition development, our purposeful priorities and USPs.

Discover more at www.crowdproperty.com.

Find out more about alternative finance, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, property and CrowdProperty on the CrowdProperty Blog which includes our series of 40 articles explaining these exciting hot topics: https://blog.crowdproperty.com