What it is
Crowdpear is a Lithuanian crowdfunding platform for property-backed business loans. Crowdpear, UAB was set up in Vilnius in 2021 and made its first loans in 2023. By 23 October 2026 it had funded €59.8 million through 598 loans (stages of the same project count separately), on property in Lithuania, Romania and Portugal. It had 11,349 registered investors in August 2026. Two of its three shareholders and its deputy chief executive are also behind the lending platform PeerBerry, but the two are separate companies.
How it works
You choose loans yourself from €100 each; there is no automatic investing. Loans usually run 12 to 24 months. Interest is paid monthly or quarterly and the loan amount is repaid at the end. Borrowers are property-owning companies borrowing for development, business needs or refinancing. Each loan gets a risk class from A to D. All investors start as non-sophisticated and take a knowledge test and a loss-bearing check.
Returns
The average interest rate on loans funded is 10.57% a year, weighted by amount (23 October 2026, down from 10.59% in August 2026). It is the rate in the contracts, before losses and tax. The home page advertises up to 14% including loyalty bonuses. Investors have earned €3.78 million in total. Independent tracking of investor portfolios points to a median of about 11.6% a year after losses (August 2026). Lithuania withholds 15% tax on interest paid to non-residents, which lowers what foreign investors keep.
Losses and defaults
No money has been written off so far, and only one enforcement has been completed (€97,000). But problems are growing fast. On 23 October 2026, €2.02 million (3.38% of all money funded) was late and €2.30 million (3.84%) was in recovery. Together that is about 16% of the loans still outstanding (calculated from the platform's own figures). The amount in recovery rose from €0.61 million at the end of June to €2.30 million at the end of July 2026, after the first default of a B-class loan, and nothing was late in August. Crowdpear's yearly default table counts a loan as defaulted if it is more than 90 days late on at least one instalment or cannot be repaid without enforcement: in 2025, 9 of 112 C-class loans (8%) defaulted, against 13.5% expected; in 2024, 16 of 63 (25.4%). No recovery rate is published.
What secures your money
Each loan is secured by a mortgage on property, often with a pledge of the borrower's shares or a personal guarantee. The average loan-to-value is 58.39% (October 2026): on average the property is valued at about 1.7 times the loan in valuations made for each loan. There is no buyback and no reserve fund. If a borrower defaults, Crowdpear follows a published procedure ending in enforcement against the property. Only one enforcement has been completed so far, so the security has not yet been tested at scale. In plain words: the property should cover the loan if values hold, but recovery takes time and the record is short.
Who runs it and its licence
Crowdpear, UAB (registration code 305888586, Vilnius) holds a European crowdfunding service provider licence from the Bank of Lithuania (LB002204), active since 25 July 2023; before that it worked under a Lithuanian crowdfunding permission from January 2022. Its 2025 accounts were audited with a clean opinion and showed a net profit of €267,215 and equity of €503,091. Investors' cash is held in a trust account at the Lithuanian bank AB Mano bankas, kept apart from Crowdpear's own money. No deposit insurance or investor compensation scheme applies.
Fees
Opening an account, investing, depositing and withdrawing are free for investors. Selling a loan on the secondary market costs the seller 2% of the sale amount. Crowdpear earns its money from borrowers.
Getting your money out
Money normally comes back when each loan is repaid at the end of its term, usually 12 to 24 months. You can sell a whole investment early on the secondary market for a 2% fee: listings last 14 days, sellers may ask up to 20% more and buyers may offer up to 50% less, and partial sales are not allowed. Late loans can be sold too. No trading volume is published.
Our view
Return: High — 10.57% a year average contract rate (October 2026). Risk: Low (higher means more risk) — nothing has been written off, which alone would be Very Low, but we set it one step worse, at Low, because the zero has not been tested: only one enforcement has been completed, 8% of C-class loans defaulted in 2025 and about 16% of the outstanding book is late or in recovery, so actual losses could end up higher. Risk-return: High — a high rate on property-backed loans with no losses so far, resting on a short and now strained record.
Crowdpear, UAB (registration code 305888586) holds a European crowdfunding service provider licence under Regulation (EU) 2020/1503 from the Bank of Lithuania, licence LB002204, active since 25 July 2023. It is authorised to facilitate loans, set credit scores and prices, run a secondary-market bulletin board and manage loan portfolios. Investments are not covered by deposit insurance or an investor compensation scheme.