Two platform heads have recently mentioned to me the surprisingly large tremor caused by Trussonomics on development lending, which is still having knock-on consequences. But that’s far from the only thing to hit this sector: the continued loss of construction workers from Brexit, recent high…
When loans fall into arrears or even turn bad – i.e, they “default” – you continue to earn interest. Most of the time, even if the borrower’s property ultimately needs to be repossessed and sold, lenders get all their money back as well as all…
You’ll have noticed that P2P lending companies sometimes win awards, which are usually awarded by some sort of publication, with or without an independent judging panel. 4thWay, too, regularly wins industry awards for which I am truly very grateful and glad that we get recognised….
We have nagged the taxman’s notoriously tight-lipped officials, and chased down accountants, IFISA providers and even 4thWay’s own skilled experts to give you answers to all your IFISA questions, as well questions you never thought to ask. Here goes: What is an IFISA? An IFISA…
We told HMRC that, reading the rules for ISAs, “they don’t actually prohibit people opening multiple IFISAs in one tax year, provided they only subscribe new money to one of them”… Do they? A representative from HMRC has told us this “looks correct”. That’s about…
Here’s our list of P2P lending companies that we are aware of that you can lend through from overseas, i.e. outside the UK. And there’s another list below of those that we know you can’t. In addition to any requirements below, you may only open…
Downing Crowd’s Senior Property & Renewable Energy Lending is unrated, due to lack of information. These loans have been paying lenders around interest before bad debts. Visit Downing Crowd or keep reading the Downing Crowd Review.
As you may know, you can only open one IFISA in a tax year, which runs from the 6th of April to the 5th of April, and this limits your ability to spread your money and the risks across lots of providers. Opening more than…
Last year, in 2023, if you invested in one of the cheapest and best share funds to cover the entire UK stock market, through Vanguard, and you did it directly through them in their own ISA, you’ll probably have made around 6.8%. That’s assuming you…
Over the past month or so, I’ve talked with a couple of dozen investors who use 4thWay’s research. It’s been one of the advantages of growing a wealthy collective of lenders to get better returns while doing something useful to support the proper functioning of…
P2P lending companies often want and need to fund loans through institutions or a collection of especially wealthy investors, who earn better rates and terms for the privilege. That lending is over-and-above the usual lending through online lending platforms. And that’s all while providing a…
Owning property is one of the four ways that gives 4thWay its name. As we sometimes say: “there’s the savings way, the property ownership way, the stock market way, and now there’s the P2P lending way: the 4thWay”. All are equally fantastic ways to save…
It was a lot of years ago when we assessed Unbolted’s lending processes, and then lost contact with them for a long time. In summer 2023, however, we’ve received substantial supporting evidence and answers to go along with a relatively short interview on lending processes…
Peer-to-peer lending is not a regulated phrase. By 4thWay’s definition, any online lending company is peer-to-peer if it structures itself and its loans to offer the same level of protection as direct lending, in order to protect lenders in the event that the lending company…
P2P lending costs money for both borrowers and lenders. Because there’s no such thing as a free lunch! You can find out true costs of lending through various P2P lending companies elsewhere on 4thWay and we’ll show you where further below. But, firstly, here’s how…
UK Limited companies and Limited Partnerships are allowed to lend through P2P lending websites. The ones we know of where this is allowed are: AxiaFunder*/**. CapitalStackers*/**. CP Capital. CrowdProperty.** Downing Crowd**. EstateGuru. Folk2Folk. Housemartin*/** Invest & Fund*/**. Kuflink*/**. LandlordInvest. Lendwise**. Proplend*/**. SoMo*/**. Sourced Capital.** Limited companies…
Update on 12th August 2023: Crowd2Fund’s accounts have now been filed and the strike-off action discontinued. Details of its accounts here. You’ve not heard anything from us on Crowd2Fund for a while. Crowd2Fund hasn’t been in a position to provide detailed data to us to…
Lande* has re-established its data pipeline and so we’ve reassessed its 4thWay PLUS Rating. Despite quite a few more loans falling late or turning bad as its history has been maturing, it has easily maintained its 3/3 “Exceptional” 4thWay PLUS Rating. Its high interest rates…
We talk to 4thWay users a lot directly, and we get your emails and survey results from you. What we find is that lenders are making the same mistakes over and over again – and frankly it’s worrying us. While the P2P lending sites really…
In China, the number of websites offering lending platforms reached more than 2,000. For a long time, after that, 80 of them were being closed down every month due to peer-to-peer lending fraud or incompetence. The UK is far from China in more ways than…
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