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

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

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.

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.

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.