Prosper Lending Review: July Recap

Last month has been a busy blogging month with lots of peer to peer lending news. We published 37 articles and had lots of user interaction. Here's a quick look at the July highlights. Posts marked with a double asterisk are my favorites.

Lending Strategy
**Are non-homeowners a safer lending risk in a declining house market?
Asset diversification and P2P lending
**Borrowing money to lend on Prosper: Wise or Foolish?
Build your own fantasy Prosper loan portfolio
**An analysis of pre-payment risk on Prosper loans
**Are all Prosper loans within a credit grade created equal?

Prosper Competitors
Lending Club offers $5 referral bonus
Zopa makes top 10 UK startup list
Third mystery Prosper competitor project emerges
**Why Facebook is NOT the next Microsoft: Lending Club example
Lending Club announces $5000 video contest
**What is Loanio?
Lending Club's Blog educates readers

Borrowing
Loan money to family and friends through Prosper
Using Prosper for a small mortgage
Using P2P lending to fund a startup

Prosper news
50 best websites of 2007 - Prosper scores again
Prosper referral deadline nears
Wall Street Journal: Options grow for investors to lend online

Most discussed articles
Are all Prosper loans within a credit grade created equal?
Build your own fantasy Prosper loan portfolio
Equity sharing: Prosper for real estate