Market Research - Assessment of competing property crowd funding sites in the UK

We are property developers based in the UK building a new concept for residential renters called co-living. The best and only example in the UK is The Collective in Acton. It is a new way of living initially targeted at millennials but with relevance to other age groups as an alternative to tradition (lonely) living in apartments. As part of our funding strategy, we are looking to develop a crowd funding platform which we will eventually use as the source for some of the funds required to develop the properties. In preparing our strategy, we need some market research done on other property specific crowd funding sites - what is the competitive landscape in the UK and if there are some good examples in the rest of the EU or the US that we should /could review. These will be sites set up by the developers themselves to fund their own projects e.g., [login to view URL] and; those that started funding themselves and then grew to become full on crowd funding sites e.g., [login to view URL] (a Berlin based crowd funding site). Some will be looking at small scale funding i.e., raising money for people to build a house e.g., Our goal is to: - understand the competition: get a picture on the number of sites already operating in the UK - get an idea of some other sites there are in other cities/countries e.g., Europe and the US My approach is to work out the likely minimum time commitment and agree an hourly rate up to that point.