It is often difficult for an individual private investor to make direct commercial property investments and we are passionate to try and make it possible.

Lewis Innovative Investment's solution is twofold: Firstly, to use pension funds – because most people have a fund they can commit, and secondly to form a syndicate up to twenty people – to get into larger, more secure and attractive properties. Each syndicate member establishes a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) with existing pension funds. This amount and other syndicate members' funds will create a property fund.

The property fund will make the purchase with a mortgage. We look to secure favourable rates on either a fixed, variable or a mixed basis.

A syndicate is formed when potential members' funds are sufficient to procure a property. A member's participation of the property will be the precise proportion that their fund contributed to the total acquisition costs.