Investing into various crowdlending platforms. This one's the most terrible experience. Loans stuck for years, money don't come back. They charge small investors for assets under management fee. If yo... See more
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Estateguru is Europe’s leading real estate investment platform, offering property-backed loans to small and medium-sized businesses, while providing attractive returns for thousands of investors who fund these loans. By connecting developers with investors, Estateguru helps bring to life real estate projects that make our living environments more modern, energy-efficient, and welcoming to live and work in. To date, the platform has facilitated over 7,000 projects with a total funded volume exceeding €850 million. More than 160,000 investors from over 100 countries have joined the platform, with an average historical return of 10.17%. Estateguru is licensed under the European Crowdfunding Regulation.
Liivalaia 36, 10132, Tallinn, Estonia
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Estateguru business did work before covid. After that time nothing went smooth. The repayments are delayed > 3 years or more. I have stopped all my investments and wait to get some back. But still only very limited repayments are done and the interesst are definitely lost. LTV < 50% is no protection if EstateGuru need more than 3 years to sell loan securities...
Additional they increased fees... I have not accept the new AGBs, so no additional fees for me... I wait only for repayments and close my account afterwards...

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Still a big part of my investments on recovery, therefore not active…
Hope situation will improve.

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Unless you never want to see your money again, DO NOT INVEST here.

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As a professional with many years of experience in my field, I have always valued fairness and compliance with agreed terms. Unfortunately, my work with Estateguru did not meet these expectations. The company significantly delayed the payment of the amounts due and the payment was not made within the agreed deadline.
Such an attitude speaks of a lack of professionalism and responsibility.
Fairness is the basis of any successful partnership - something that was clearly lacking in this case.

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ALL of my loans went unpaid for 4 years so I had to sell them 75% off to get some of my money back, again, after 4 years without seeing a penny.
- RUN -
Reply: i already lost 75% of my money, 4 of 4 loans unpaid, just run, that's a 100% loss rate.

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I have been with Estateguru since 2023. With current market fluctuations getting fixed returns is all that matters to me. Loans are thoroughly vetted and backed by 1st rank mortgage

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Majority of my invested loans are in default around for few years.

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Unbelievable financial fraud
Why is the legal/financial system not intervening for clear fraud / poor financial business management?
They keep disproportionally raising fees one-sided (wouldn't be surprised if they are close to bankruptcy). Even inactive account fees? 50 bucks a month? Have they lost their mind?
In addition, they keep offering loans for which the borrower for example has 60 projects in recovery and 5 repaid; why would you even allow such scammers on your platform? Which low IQ CEO is leading this company?

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Horrible company. More than 50% loans in default.Very userunfriendly. They dare to count even penalty to their customers, if they do not want to invest in their suspicient loans. I have lost several thousands eur with them. Do not invest any single EUR there. Monthly inactive account fee of €10.00 is pure thievery, because how are you supposed to invest in a new loan when you're almost certain to default. My opinion is that the company is teetering on bankruptcy.

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They started off quite well but after 40% of there loans defaulted in Germany and Finland it has been a clusterf... After 2 years of waiting I have lost hope in getting my money back since they just keep you in a bubble circle and no information gets out about the defaulted loans. They only advertise the success story and the so called promised 10-11% interest rate is actually 5% or less due all the defaulted loans.
In short out of 22 loans I have 19 are defaulted.

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The worst investing platform!
I’ve lost about 40% of my investments.
There’s no follow up on the loans in recovery process and if you decide not to invest anymore, the platform will eat money from your non paid back investments on a monthly basis after 12 months. CRAZY!
DO NOT FALL ON THIS TRAP!

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I tried years ago a little investment on this company, most of the projects went in default. I planned to recover the little as possible and exit, now they're threatening to charge my account 10 euro per month for being inactive, and what's worst is that the verification SMS code just after receiving their notice email doesn't work anymore, so I cannot log in to do any operation. They're clearly planning to rob customers - even very small investors like me - from their little earnings, which would never recoup what's lost anyway. This company must be pursued by lawyers with a collective action.

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Thanks for the reply, but why did this fee increase from 10 to 50 eur?
You backed it up saying according to our policy, your policy changes each time, so next time thia fee can be 100 eur and further 1000eur since it is your policy.
Also you mentioned withdrawing funds free or charge, i am always charged 3 eur for 1 withdrawal,why is that?
So lets say i have 10 eur in my account and i want to wait a bit to have more and with one go to withdraw them, bexause paying each time 3 eur is nonsence for such small amounts, but waiting is also not possible because you charge 50 eur, so what kind of scheme is this?
Very bad and now they ate charging 50 eur inactuve account fee. I just want to get money out without puting them in again and they charge 50 eur if they see money in your account, previously it was 10, now 50 eur.

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Scammer company with no customer support, only auto replies. 3 Years passed already and nothing is done with defaulted loans. Do not put money there and avoid !
All defaulted loans with nothing done:
#7781 Bridge loan - 5.stage
#9326 Development loan - 18.stage
#7229 Development loan - 28.stage
#2357 Development loan - 45.stage
#8958 Development loan - 25.stage
#1170 Development loan - 3.stage
#0446 Bridge loan - 1.stage

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Estategury writes now that they are aiming to resolve defaults as efficiently as possible and based on their extensive experience, a realistic time horizon for achieving a solution is within 3 to 5 years. The loans in my portolio were defaulted 3-4 years ago and they are still expecting 3-5 years recovery time. It should not take that long to take over the collateral and sell it. Imo they are jus giving nonsense explanations - first it was a bad market situation and then difficult borrowers etc. At some point they commented that recovery processes in Estonia and in Lithuania are smooth and still even those cases don't proceed,
I guess it is normal to them to have 6-10 years recovery period - what aren't they telling??? It feels like a pull.

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Three loans are still in recovery for more than 3 years.
I hear nothing.

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DO NOT PUT YOUR MONEY HERE YOU WILL LOOSE IT. I have invested since 2019. I invested small sums into different loans. My total return after 6 years is -40%. It will not be different for you, at first it seems legit until you understand that you will loose 100% of the money if the loan defaults. I have loans that are 5 years and still not recovered. Almost no loans get recovered and default rate is around 40%, just google it. Please don't give these people another dime.
Edit: they have replied and I will deconstruct how they try to fool you: "Since the platform's launch, only three loans have resulted in a full principal write-off". "write-off" is a term they created. In practice there are hundreds of loans that sit there for 5-6 years. Everyone knows there's no chance that they will get recovered. Out of that 100 loans they choose 3 to "write off" and then claim "only 3 loans resulted in write-off". Yes, all investments carry risk, but THERE'S NO WAY FOR THEM TO LEGALLY VALIDATE THE MORGAGE SECURITY!!! And this fact is hidden from you. So your loans are NOT secured in practice. Combine that with 50% default rate and you'll get my results: after 6 YEARS of investment I LOST 40% of the money.

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3eur fee just to withdraw your own money. absolute joke.
Update: no other platform charges their customers to access their own funds, yet EG throws up the answer below. Lol.

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