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£161 mn

Assets Under Management

300,000+

Users

Top 20 Global Fintech

CNBC - 2023

Benjamin Cassey

Founding Director, Inflection Real Estate

Ben has 19+ years experience in real estate including as Director at First Alliance Properties, a UK based investments firm.

Benjamin Cassey

Kunal Moktan

Co-Founder

Kunal has over 17 years experience in investing real estate of which 8 was with The Blackstone Group. He has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Kunal Moktan

Richard Worrall

Senior Investment Advisor

19+ years experience in the industrial and office sectors having advised on over £400 mn of transactions most recently as Director at Avison Young. Chartered Surveyor (RICS).

Richard Worrall

A team with institutional investing experience

The Alt UK senior team comes with strong institutional experience across assets and markets.

Backed by institutional capital

Benefit from the trust and stability of a platform backed by global institutional investors from the US, Singapore, Japan and India.

How It Works

Invest

Sign-up on the platform, browse live listings and click “invest now” to follow our entirely digital investment process.

Earn

Receive quarterly rent distributions directly into your bank account together with property management updates on the asset.

Exit

Sell your share on our resale platform or wait for the asset to be sold to a third party.

Invest
Earn
Exit

FAQs

Alt (UK) is an investment platform that allows individual investors direct access to completed, yield generating warehousing and logistics assets in the UK.
Users can browse through the properties section to view live properties currently open for funding on the platform. A detailed investment thesis is available on each property. Interested investors can click on the "Invest Now" button to schedule a call with our platform representative and learn more about the offering, including the next steps.
If you are registered on the platform, you will receive an email whenever a new opportunity goes live.
The platform lists warehousing and logistics assets including retail warehouses located in some of the key distribution and retail hubs of the UK.
£50,000 is the minimum investment amount on the platform.
Alt (UK) has invested in three warehouses in the UK and has a strong track record of returns, having recently exited one of the warehouses to Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), a global alternative investment manager managing more than £100 billion of capital. Details of the investment and exit can be viewed here.
Yes, Alt UK is an Authorised Representative of Leela Capital Regulatory Solutions Limited (LCRS) (FRN 845185) who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Alt UK has also appointed Thompson Taraz Managers Limited, who are authorised and regulated by the FCA (FRN 226978) as the Alternative Investment Fund Manager under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive in relation to the fund.

An investor typically makes returns in two ways:

  • Rental return: the rent from the tenant is distributed quarterly to all investors, which is typically 6-8% per annum

  • Property appreciation: investors can also profit from the underlying property price increase at the time of exit, typically between 3 to 5 years. View our recent exit here

Please view the detailed risk summary here

The following categories of investors can invest on the platform:

    • 1. High Net-worth Investor

    • You qualify as a High Net-worth Investor if you meet either of the following criteria:

    • Your annual income is more than £100,000, OR

    • You have net assets of £250,000 or more

    • 2. Self-Certified Sophisticated Investor

    • You qualify as a Self-Certified Sophisticated Investor if, in the last two years, you have done at least ONE of the following:

    • Worked in private equity or in the provision of finance for small and medium enterprises

    • Been the director of a company with an annual turnover of at least £1 million

    • Made two or more investments in an unlisted company

    • Been a member of a network or syndicate of business angels for more than six months

    • 3. Sophisticated Investor

    • You qualify as a Sophisticated Investor if, in the last THREE years, you have received a certificate from an authorised firm confirming that you understand the risks involved in investing.

    • 4. Elective Professional Client

    • You may be treated as an Elective Professional Client if you have adequate experience and understanding to make your own investment decisions and to understand the risks involved.

    • 5. Professional Client per se

    • These are clients who automatically fall within the definition of Professional Clients, unless and to the extent that they carry out Eligible Counterparty business.

As an individual investor, you will own direct interest in the underlying asset through shares in a special purpose vehicle (SPV).

You can exit your investment in two ways:

  • Resale platform: Investors can list their shares for sale on our resale platform which opens for 2 weeks at the end of every quarter where the platform facilitates sale between investors across its c. 350,000+ users.

  • Hold till exit: Alternately, investors can also hold their investments till exit, where the platform sells the asset to a third party at the end of the hold period (typically 3-5 years). View our recent exit here

An investor pays two kinds of taxes:

  • on rental distributions: the quarterly rental distributions are taxed as dividends in the hands of the investor as per prevailing tax rates in his/her jurisdiction.

  • on sale of property / share: The SPV owning the property pays capital gains on the profit at 25%. The corresponding distribution of sale proceeds is not taxed in the hands of the investor.

The property is managed by the platform through an experienced asset management team. Asset management involves rent / lease negotiations with the tenant on renewal / end of lease term, sale of the asset, periodic valuations, repairs and maintenance (if any), among others.

The platform charges two types of fees:

  • Asset management fee: An asset management fee of 1% per annum is charged on the capital invested. (e.g. £500 for a £50,000 investment)

  • Performance fee: A performance fee of 15% is charged at the time of exit on profits above a 5% IRR threshold.

Illustration:

  • On a £50,000 investment, if the investor exits after one year with £60,000;

  • 5% IRR threshold: £50,000 × 1.05 = £52,500

  • Excess profit: £60,000 − £52,500 = £7,500

  • Performance fee: 15% × £7,500 = £1,125

The properties are sourced by our investment team directly or through our network of brokers across the UK.

Once a property is identified and price agreed, the platform signs a Heads of Terms with the Seller and begins a detailed due-diligence exercise. The team appoints legal and technical advisors to go through the property documents made available typically through data rooms and complete a physical technical assessment of the asset in order to ensure that the title of the property is clear and there are no major repairs / capital expenditures due. A complete due-diligence report is circulated with all investors before the final capital drawdown.

Liquidity powered by scale

With over 300,000 users, the platform’s unique resale market allows you to sell your holdings

Institutional analysis but without the fees

Granular analysis but with 50% lower fees than traditional funds

Invest in assets designed to respond to inflation trends

We give you access to asset classes with returns linked to RPI rate, positioning your portfolio optimally to potentially profit from inflation