On the one hand we have buy-to-let P2P lending website Landbay* showing that buy-to-let returns have beaten all other assets over the 18 years to the end of 2014. On the other, we have a This Is Money article calling buy-to-let a “£200 billion time bomb”….
I wrote about my interview with CapitalStackers‘* Steve Robson in CapitalStackers: High Property Returns With Lower Risk. Today I’d like to explain about the potential to make a profit here by buying and then selling loan parts to other lenders, rather than just buying loan…
Hedge funds, banks and other institutions are increasingly lending their money or, more commonly, their clients’ money, through P2P lending websites. Do institutions have an advantage over us individual lenders? Here’s my take: Institutions versus the crowd Plus for the crowd: we have more choice…
This is adapted from a blog we wrote for Zopa’s website. Lending through personal loans platforms such as Zopa is part of the staple diet for both individual lenders and professionals alike. The attraction is the low-risk profile, reliable and predictable nature of personal loans….
Bad debts on the 23,000 loans issued by Zopa in 2015 so far are virtually zero, despite more riskier borrowers. In my article Zopa Risks & Lending Speed Rise, Rates Stable, I reported that Zopa is accepting more loan applications than it used to, so that it can…
Hi 4thWay® News and Tips subscribers! My book, “4thWay’s Intelligent Peer-to-Peer Lending Strategies”, covers strategies to make much more money, much more safely, and it drills down to show individual strategy by each individual P2P lending website. For you, it’s free! All I ask for in…
MarketInvoice is a P2P lending service that allows lenders to lend to medium- and large-sized businesses. These business borrowers put up specific invoices as collateral, and they repay lenders within a matter of weeks or months when the business receives payment of its invoices from its customers. Lenders earn…
Over half of the P2P lending platforms allow you to lend in property loans. (Read 18 Property Peer-to-Peer Lending Websites.) So you might be concerned to have read the headlines this week that house price rises have halved from over 11% a year ago to…
Landbay* is a P2P lending website that allows you to lend your money to experienced buy-to-let investors. CrowdLords is not P2P lending. It’s being a buy-to-let investor yourself, albeit as part of a crowd of landlords sharing a property. Note that CrowdLords is for people…
I interviewed CapitalStackers‘* Steve Robson, Director, who filled me in on some interesting aspects about the property P2P lending website. Firstly, I should note that CapitalStackers’ minimum lending amount is £5,000. The service is generally only available to people classed as sophisticated investors or high-net worth,…
Adapted from 4thWay co-founder Neil Faulkner’s new book on P2P lending strategy, read why it is that you should question everything when investing. Part of the reason you’re reading this website is that you’re a natural sceptic. It’s your job as an investor – for…
CrowdProperty took five months to get its first deal completed, but just five weeks to do its second. Clearly, it’s speeding up. New P2P lending websites can offer interesting opportunities. The interest rates tend to be higher, so if you can satisfy yourself that the…
Zopa latest: Speed of getting money on loan: up Proportion of loans accepted: up Riskier borrowers: up Interest rates: stable Zopa has taken steps to help get lenders’ money on loan faster and to stabilise rates, and set a scene which could lead to…
Last Friday I chaired a panel show for the first time. It was the property peer-to-peer lending panel at the Property Investor Show in ExCeL, London, and there were a lot of great questions from the audience. The panel were representing P2P lending websites that do…
UK Bond Network will be the next P2P lending website to be added to the 4thWay® comparison tables this week. UK Bond Network is for high-net worth investors or those classed as “sophisticated” only. If that’s not you then you should probably look away now. The most…
Lenders can use the bad-debt rate to see how low bad debts have been in the past on a P2P lending webste. An average annual bad-debt rate of 0.5% during a moderate or good economic backdrop is very low, for example. Any bank would be…
Forecasts might not be the best way to decide whether to lend through a particular P2P lending website, but there are plenty of other ways to do so. UK Bond Network, a P2P lending website, recently sent 4thWay® enough data to get listed in its comparison…
I remember working at stock-market investment website The Motley Fool when Stuart Watson was the editor. He was a smart guy. That’s why, when I told him a friend was re-mortgaging his house to invest in the stock market, he had a very intelligent response,…
Here’s a short, but certainly sweet, article. I just had to pull a recent 4thWay® article explaining how 13% earned interest and 6% bad debts could leave you with a profit of less than 2%, all because we are taxed on the bad debts that…
The Bank of England is asking the UK’s biggest banks and building society to perform stress tests again. Like last year, the tests are not as extreme as the events of 2008-10. The argument is that that period was seen as a rare event that only happens…
