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

Experience to date. I have been with them a couple of years, give or take. They started off well, placing my investment with borrowers quite quickly but more recently I have not been impressed. It takes ages to place my money with lenders, I mean months, during which time it is earning nothing. Their Autolend system puts you in a queue while you wait for a borrower while early repayments from existing borrowers swell my unlent cash account. If I try to increase the max loan amount to take account of that I go straight to the back of the queue for another long wait. Approaching half my money remains uninvested so, to be honest, I could probably do better in a building society. It seem to be impossible to get onto an investment without using Autolend as they are all snapped up immediately they become available. I am hoping for an improvement.

Amazing platform Amazing platform, very user friendly. Even more importantly great first class property financing opportunities fully secured with first charge on the property with amazing return around 10% per annum. All loans refunded on time so far. Just had one of them refunded earlier this week! David

A modern day funder for modern businesses. We have funded two projects with blend which are progressing well. Blend has delivered exactly as promised. The legals took a little time to sort but they are robust & we have confidence moving forward with Blend. Payments are prompt as soon as valuations & various reports in progress are presented. A modern day funder for modern day business.