Bridging
Lendy returns £1.5m repayment to P2P investors
Peer-to-peer lending platform Lendy has returned around £1.5m to investors following a loan secured on residential build in Lancashire.
The development loan was used to fund building a home on half an acre of cleared land in New Longton, five miles from Preston city centre.
A small portion of the loan was used to refinance an existing debt on the site itself.
It has a loan to Gross Development Value (GDV) of 59% with an interest rate paid to investors of 12%. The borrower has successfully refinanced this loan with another lender.
Lendy has repaid 20 loans in full this year which, together with partial repayments, has meant over £39m has been repaid to investors.
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Lendy’s 21,800 investors have earned over £43.3m in interest since 2012, against £413m that has been invested.
Liam Brooke, CEO of Lendy, said this adds to the more than £10m repaid to investors over the previous three months.
He said: “We have invested heavily in our due diligence processes in the last year to make sure we can source more of this kind of high-yielding loan for our investors that have a sensible balance of risk and reward.
“High-yielding loans obviously carry risk with them but can provide an important performance boost to a diversified portfolio.
“This represents a great start to September for Lendy, following on from our Financial Conduct Authority authorisation in July.”