Work Experience with Blend Blend gave me a fantastic opportunity to grow in my career and learn. I really enjoyed my time there.

Dipping your toe in Property Development I have used Blend as an investment vehicle for about 9 months. To date, any issues I have had have been dealt with very quickly and their communications regarding new opportunities and feedback on existing deals has been really good. As with all investments there is risk, however to date I have been happy with the research undertaken and no loans have defaulted. Let's hope that this continues.

Glacially slow to lend my money The real problem with this company is that they have too many lenders and too few borrowers. As a consequence some of my money has lain unused on this platform for months drawing no interest. Each time I phone to discuss I am assured the money will be invested soon, but this does not happen. You are better off with Kuflink or Crowdproperty who seem to have a far larger number of borrowers

Auto Loan seems the way to go The return on these Blend's investments are far better than those I can get elsewhere but I did get frustrated because there were fewer deals to invest in over the last year or so. However, this is very different now with plenty of investments coming up every other day. I have only a small amount of capital in the app and when there's an investment coming up (Blend email with deals which are coming up the day before) I transfer the capital I have decided to Auto Loan. This means that there's only a small amount of capital + the interest I'm making sitting in the account and the rest of the capital is making a great return.

Unrealistic advertised returns I'm with many of the other reviewers on here - your money simply sits around too long in their bank account waiting in a queue for investing. My money has been sitting in their client account earning nothing for 6 months. Factor that in, and their claimed 8-12% pa is hard to achieve. If only they could turn money around faster and get it working quicker it would be a great investment opportunity. Their standard answer on here about 'quality investments' ignores the issue investors keep raising with them. I think you can find better overall returns with other lenders.