Eligibility of investors

Our investment opportunties in property development are available to only certain types of investor as detailed below. We are sorry, we cannot help anybody who does not fall into the categories below. However, it is possible to buy property or to sell land using CrowditBuildit services, and this website.

General principles

Our investment offer is informed by the general restriction in Section 21 of Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ('FSMA') on making financial promotions to members of the public. This states that a promotion of an investment offer is made to (and only to) certain groups who are exempt within the meaning of the Financial Promotions Order ('FPO') as outlined below.

1. Investment Professionals

Our investments are offered to persons falling within the definition of investment professional contained in article 19 of the FPO (termed 'Investment professionals') namely authorised persons; persons who are exempt in relation to the promotion of investments of this nature; persons whose ordinary activities involve them investing in unregulated schemes; governments; local authorities or international organisations; or a director, officer or employee acting for any of the entities listed in paragraph (a) in relation to engaging in investment activity (provided that the communication is made to the director, officer or employee in this capacity and when acting in this capacity they are involved in the entities’ participation in non-readily realisable securities);

2. High net worth companies, unincorporated associations

Investing in CrowditBuildit is for persons falling within article 49 of the FPO (“High net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc”) namely bodies corporate with called up share capital or net assets of not less than £5 million (except where the body corporate has more than 20 members in which case the share capital or net assets should be not less than £500,000); unincorporated associations or partnerships with net assets of not less than £5 million; trustees of high value trusts; or a director, officer or employee acting for any of the entities listed in this paragraph (c) in relation to engaging in investment activity (provided that the communication is made to the director, officer or employee in this capacity and when acting in this capacity they are involved in the entities’ participation in non-readily realisable securities);

3. Certified high net worth individual

Our investment offer is for persons who fall within article 48 of the FPO (“certified high net worth individual”) namely a person who has signed, within the period of 12 months ending on the date on which this communication is made, a statement in the terms specified in Part 1 of schedule 5 of the FPO;

4. Certified sophisticated investor

Investing in CrowditBuildit is available to persons who fall within article 50 of the FPO ('certified sophisticated investor') namely a person who (1) has a written certificate within the last 36 months by a firm confirming he has been assessed by the firm as sufficiently knowledgeable to understand the risks associated with engaging in activity relating to non-readily realisable securities and (2) who has signed within the period of 12 months ending on the date on which this communication is made, a statement in the terms specified in article 50 of the FPO;

5. Self-certified sophisticated investor

Our investment offer is available to persons who fall within article 50A of the FPO ('self-certified sophisticated investor') namely a person who has signed, within the period of 12 months ending on the date on which this communication is made, a statement in the terms specified in Part 2 of Schedule 5 of the FPO

6. Exceptions

The offer is available to any other person to whom communication may otherwise lawfully be made in accordance with the FPO or otherwise. The scheme is only available to such categories of person and any person falling outside these categories should not treat any of the information on this website as a promotion to him or rely on it or act on it for any purpose whatsoever. The recipient of this communication may not reproduce, publish, forward or distribute, in whole or in part, copies of it to any persons except as permitted by FSMA.

Please note that we are not able to provide investment opportunities to retail investors.