Property Crowd has been relaunched as an institutional grade platform following its acquisition in 2016, and now offers professional investors and high-net-worth individuals an 11.2% internal rate of return via investment in a bond issue with pass-through exposure to a short-term senior loan.

The loan has a conservative LTV and is secured against an investment grade, Grade II-listed asset in Greater London.

Rohin Modasia, founder and CEO of Global Alternatives, said: “The quality of this deal reflects the quality of our proposition.

“In the seemingly perpetual low-yield environment of today, assets that offer higher yields, capital preservation and shorter maturities are unquestionably attractive.

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“Such superior risk-adjusted returns are near impossible to find in the market at present and we are delighted to bring this opportunity to the professional investor market as the first of many to come.”

Later this year, Global Alternatives aims to establish a cross-border property trading exchange.

The exchange would bring together Property Crowd’s professionally crowdfunded assets with private equity and debt issues backed by global real estate assets from the institutional sector.

Rohin added: “We see the next step in the evolution of crowdfunding being the manifestation of our vision: a cross-border secondary market with liquidity generated from the trading activity of an international investor base and dedicated market-makers, rather than the finite balance sheet of any single sponsoring platform.”