How’s It Going With Invest & Fund, Loanpad And CapitalRise?
Invest & Fund lending slowed, but should pick up again
4thWay's specialists conducted a full reassessment on Invest & Fund this month. There's nothing at all to report on the risk-reward balance, which remains solid.
This update is more about a slow down in lending recently. Invest & Fund has been managing its first institutional lending partners, which include banks and Homes England, the government's housing and regeneration agency. There has been noticeably less peer-to-peer lending through its online platform.
It's normal for strong providers to blend institutional and individual investors and it's a sign of health in all quality asset classes, including P2P lending, shares and bonds. It does sometimes cause see-saws and swings in balancing the different kinds of lenders.
However, Invest & Fund tells me its pipeline for P2P lending is getting busy again, and it insists that its online lending platform is central to its plans.
While there's no way to know what a board of directors really intends, other operations that Invest & Fund has done recently supports this position.
We hope for more information on this soon.
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Loanpad lenders facing typical delays for development lending
As with Invest & Fund, 4thWay's specialists have conducted another full reassessment of Loanpad.
A lot of development lending has faced delays in recent times, so over 15% of Loanpad's outstanding loans have needed to be extended. Most of those borrowers have had their maximum term limit extended by a long time – an average of nearly two years.
However, just ten loans out of 209 from 2022 are still live and extended, so Loanpad has already got great history in this regard.
The property security remains very strong. Loanpad lenders still lend a maximum of 50% of the property valuation. There have been zero losses and just a few loans are officially bad debts in recovery. Meanwhile, you're still automatically spread across all 350 of its live loans.
The main downside to Loanpad is that it's revoltingly boring. Who wants an invincible investment paying 6.5%? (Er, me.)
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CapitalRise finally has a bad debt, which is in recovery
4thWay's specialists have been busy, as CapitalRise is the third and final provider to have a full reassessment over the past month.
While CapitalRise's development loans can have much higher loan amounts versus the property valuations, it makes up for that with careful selection and plenty of leeway for developments to take longer than planned to complete.
Just one loan (which was paid out to the borrower in eight separate development tranches) is officially a bad debt. This is the first time a bad debt has been officially recognised in CapitalRise's eight years, so it's still in its journey through recovery options.
Only four other development loan tranches, from two separate loan facilities, are six months or more beyond their initial term, which is less than expected in the current market.
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