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Review of the CrowdProperty, Peer to Business Lending:

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CrowdProperty Lost My Children's Inheritance!

I am a dedicated wife and a mother of two teenage sons, working previously in the finance industry. I decided to invest my pension into CrowdProperty's peer-to-peer lending opportunities because they advertised the platform as a safe and secure home for investments, with asset-backed investments. I spread our funds across 41 loans to diversify and minimise risks. What a grave mistake my decision to invest via Crowdproperty turned out to be. The overwhelming majority of these loans have defaulted, most overdue for more than 24 months! It has left us in financial ruin. Capital losses are gigantic, losing up to 85% of one's capital on investments. CrowdProperty's 'Recoveries Team' is a complete farce, hands down the most incompetent in the UK's P2P landscape, with no real action or accountability. They twiddle their thumbs and sit on their hands, incapable to getting funds returned from borrowers. The updates about loans in default from Crowdproperty are vague and almost non-existent, with investors fobbed off with a few words once every several months. The previous CEO, Mike Bristow, was a master blagger and misled everyone. He ran Crowdproperty into the ground and led to it having THE WORST RATINGS AND REVIEWS OF ANY P-2-P LENDING PLATFORM IN THE UK, hence got booted out of his job by his Crowdproperty colleagues, but the new CEO is even worse if that was possible. It's evident Crowdproperty have all but deserted their retail investors like me, funneling their efforts toward getting funds from institutional investors instead. To any potential institutional lender reading this: do not give your money to CrowdProperty. They've betrayed hundreds of retail investors, and you'll face the same fate, total loss of your investments! The emotional toll is indescribable. My life savings have vanished, and along with them, the inheritance I intended for my children. I am consumed by guilt and despair, feeling utterly terrible for failing to protect what mattered most. This company has destroyed lives; please, learn from me and my family's heartbreak and stay away. Reviewed on: 17th August 2025

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