Lendy’s now five so we’ve got cash to give away to celebrate!

Lendy – The Property Platform has just turned five and we’d like you to help us blow out the candles.

To celebrate this milestone we want to giveaway £5,000 to the first investor to be drawn from a hat who invests an additional £5,000 on the platform by November 9^th 2017. There's also a £500 investment top up for the next name drawn, five £50 M&S vouchers for the next five, and £25 M&S vouchers for the next 10 investors.

To stand a chance of winning, simply, invest £5,000 on the platform by November 9^th 2017. For all terms and conditions please click here.

Five years young

Lendy opened for business on October 9^th 2012, armed first with a small sum of capital to lend, against secured marine assets that were held in its possession, in as safe a manner as possible.

Once the financial model was proven, we moved into the property bridging and development finance markets, and after unprecedented growth in this sector over the past few years, property is now our sole focus.

Today, Lendy is one of the fastest growing P2P property platforms, having lent around £335m via our 17,600 plus community of investors. In 2017 alone, we have added over 6500 new users and almost £90m in new money to lend. On October 4th Lendy repaid to its lenders the largest P2P loan in the sector totalling £7.92m.

Five years on, we are one of the only profitable fintech property platforms, generating over £2.7m in profit in 2016. This success is partly because we have always taken a cautious approach, scaling up only when we felt the business could sustain the expansion. But we've also managed risk carefully, and always striven to strike the right balance between loan supply and investment demand. We are also privately owned, with no bank debt or venture capital investment.

Prize draw rules

• The competition is open to new and existing investors of Lendy.co.uk.
• The competition runs from 6am on October 9^th 2017 to 23:59 on November 9^th 2017.
• The prize draw will take place on February 16^th 2018.
• To be placed into the draw a lender must have successfully lent £5,000 or more through Lendy for a minimum of three months, i.e. monies need to be used to purchase a loan part and not just deposited on account.
• Entry to the prize draw is restricted to one entry per person.
• Gift voucher prizes can only be sent to a valid UK address unless otherwise stated.
• Winners will be chosen at random from all valid entries.
• Winners will be contacted via email with the winning names displayed on our website and in other Lendy promotions.
• Lendy.co.uk is compliant with the Data Protection Act. Our policy is such that we will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent.
• You must be over 18 to enter.
• The final decision on prizes will rest solely with Lendy. All management decisions are final.
• Your capital is at risk and peer-to-peer lending is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Please refer to our disclaimer and our Risk Statement.