Open House: October 2015

Welcome to our Open House series. Every month we open the doors on our data to share information about our community, investment performance and measures of liquidity in our Resale market. The series is born of our commitment to data transparency, and we hope you find it useful.

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Our Investors

Since our January launch, over 4,500 investors have started to build their property portfolio with us.

In that time, investors have invested £10.9m, £9.0m of which is in New Listings, and £1.9m in Resale purchases.

Investor portfolio size

Note: Data displayed includes all investors who made an investment before 1st November 2015.

Our investors have portfolios ranging significantly in size. 9% of investors have invested more than £5,000 and 36% more than £500. Our largest investors have built portfolios of over £160,000 in size. Since investors typically invest regular amounts, those investors that joined Property Partner earlier tend to have invested greater amounts.

Our Properties

Note: Properties in order of when they were fully funded. Data correct at 1st November 2015.

Investors are coming back again and again, with 65% holding multiple properties with us. New investors represent 14% of all investors across the last 5 properties: 86% of investments in those properties were made by those who had invested with us previously and represent ‘repeat’ business.

Number of properties users have invested in

Note: Includes all investors who made an investment before 1st November 2015.

33% of investors have invested in over three properties, and 7% have invested in over ten properties. Diversification is important, as it provides some protection against volatility of returns.

Rental Income

We have met – or exceeded – forecast dividend payments on all properties to date.

(Properties highlighted green have exceeded forecasts)

In some cases, we have managed to secure higher rent than originally forecast when the properties were listed on the platform. This will result in higher dividends for investors in these properties.

In some instances, where properties were acquired vacant, it took us longer to find tenants than anticipated. This was often down to ourselves, as we are highly selective with the tenants we allow to rent our properties, so we chose to fund any such gaps ourselves rather than let this impact dividend payments. Whilst we do not guarantee this practice, we anticipate continuing it for the foreseeable future.

Property Valuations

Our properties are carefully selected by Robert Weaver, who is our Director of Property and one of the UK’s leading residential property experts, with a view to delivering capital growth as well as rental income.

All of our properties are independently valued by an RICS qualified Chartered Surveyor at purchase, and also every 3 months thereafter to provide a valuation update for that individual property. In between these quarterly valuations, we use the Land Registry’s House Price Index (HPI) to update valuations. All revaluations occur on the 5th of the month, or the nearest working day thereafter. Bear in mind that the House Price Index (HPI) is not indicative of the individual property, but of the area in general and can be volatile month to month, so the Quarterly Chartered Surveyor valuations are a better guide to the specific property’s value.

Latest Valuation for each property

In grey – HPI based valuations. In black – Quarterly Chartered Surveyor desktop valuations.

The above valuations feed into the Latest Share Valuation for each property, after adjusting for purchase costs and other items, and you can download an Excel tracker of the historic share price movements here. The Excel tracker is updated monthly and will allow you to track the performance of each individual property. This data will be integrated into the platform in the months to come.

The Resale market

Here we share key measures of the Resale market, including time to sell, trading volumes, and a download of trading activity allowing you to perform your own analysis.

Provided they are not priced at a premium to the Latest Share Valuation, the average time to sell shares is 6 hours excluding Tower Mint Apartments, and 29 hours including. With the recent uplift in value seen by Tower Mint Apartments, many investors are looking to crystallise profits by selling their investment. The increased supply has increased the average selling time this month. Aside from the resale market, we also have 5 yearly exit protection mechanics, which you can read more about here.

Trading volumes have been meaningful: 20% of the total property portfolio has traded in the Resale market. This figure varies substantially by property, with ‘older’ properties (those funded many months ago) generally seeing more trading volume than more recent properties, since they have had a longer time in which to trade. Our first property has been more than 99% traded on the Resale market already (i.e. over 990,000 of it’s 1,000,0000 shares have traded in the Resale market).

The property-by-property data is below, in order of property launch (with the earliest launched properties at the top of the table):

We have also prepared a full download of Resale trading activity which you can access here. This spreadsheet allows you to review trading by property, including the trade date, trade price and premium to Latest Share Valuation.

In Summary

Since our January launch, Property Partner has helped over 4,500 investors to build their personal property portfolios. Investor confidence keeps growing, with some users having already invested over £160,000 with us. Our properties have consistently delivered rental incomes at or above forecast, in addition to attractive capital gains.

We have already seen 20% of property shares traded on the Resale market and for our first-funded property more than 99% of the shares have been traded. The length of time taken to sell shares in the Resale market varies according to the price at which shares are offered. For shares that have been offered at a ‘fair price’ (in other words, with no premium to the Latest Share Valuation), the weighted average time to sell in the Resale market has been just 6 hours excluding Tower Mint Apartments, and 29 hours including.

We will continue to share information and data, to give investors like you a clear view on our performance. And for those of you who are not yet investors, we hope that this data will help you make an informed decision as to whether you would like to join us.

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