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We're always working hard to bring you good quality borrowing applications for you to consider. Currently businesses that are eligible to borrow through rebuildingsociety.com, must have at least two years history, an average turnover of £50,000 a quarter and offer at least a personal guarantee as security. We believe that when business owners support their loan with good security they should be rewarded for it. Generally our starting interest rates on loans on the primary marketplace are driven from the risk ratings we assign to each business we list.  A rated loans start at 11%, B's at 17% and C's at 20%. However where a business offers security in support of their loan, the starting rate on a loan will be driven by the security strength and Loan To Value (LTV) score of the security rather than the final risk rating. The risk ratings remain unchanged, allowing you to assess the relative risk of the loan itself.

Security Discount in Practice

What is it?

A borrower incentive to encourage borrowers to offer more and better security in support of their loan.

How does it work?

The borrower can offer a wide variety of security to support their loan. We’ve assigned a nominal value to the different types of security, making some security ‘more valuable’ than others. For example a 1st charge on a property will be deemed a more valuable form of security than a company debenture, and as such they will be rewarded with a lower starting interest rate. The more security added, the more the starting rate will be reduced* as the security added works in a cumulative way linked to the loan to value ratio. The starting maximum rate will never be modified lower than 5% of the standard maximum rates, which are currently as follows:

• A+ = Max rate 11%
• A= Max rate 14%
• B= Max rate 17%
• C= Max rate 20%

Therefore a C rated loan will never have a maximum starting rate of less than 15%. The security we can accept from a borrower is ranked in priority below.

• 1st Charge Commercial Property
• 1st Charge Non Residential Property
• 2nd Charge Commercial Property
• 2nd Charge Non Residential Property
• 1st Charge Residential Property
• Fixed Asset Debenture
• 2nd Charge Residential Property
• All Assets Fixed and Floating Debenture
• Corporate Guarantee
• Personal Guarantee Insurance

Therefore, depending on the LTV on the security, a 1st legal charge taken on a commercial property in support of a loan is ranked higher than a loan with an All Assets Debenture and may be achieve a lower maximum loan rate. Similarly, based on the above a loan secured on a 1st charge non residential property with an exceptional LTV will not achieve a better rate than a loan secured on a 1st commercial charge that also has an exceptional LTV, unless the former is accompanied by additional security. Personal Guarantee's do not qualify for a reduction in the interest rate as this is a mandatory requirement for all loans.

As a lender, how will this affect you and your use of the site?

The bidding process of the site remains unchanged as does indicative risk rating given to each loan, the only change will be the maximum starting rate of any loan that achieves the reward.

Historic loans

This change was only implemented in October 2016, and was not retrospectively applied to loans funded prior to this date.

Will this reduce my returns?

We expect any reduction in average gross returns to be offset by an improvement in net returns. As ever you should always review each loan application in detail before lending. Where you have questions in regard to an application you should put these to the borrower via the discussion forum on each application. If you have not already done so, please read more about the risks associated with lending to businesses.