Personal Investment Invitation
Confidential – please do not share without consent.
If you’re reading this it means you’re someone who has already, in some way, shown meaningful support for my efforts to fix the housing market and unlock social mobility until everyone has a home, with BestAgent.
Thank you for that, whether you’re a friend, family member, current or former client, industry contact, early investment enquirer or social media supporter.
If you aren’t personally in a position to proceed but would like to nominate someone close to you, please let me know.
We’re now raising our first investment round and this invitation-only offer closes on 31 May 2026.
The returns appear abnormally high, but are in fact typical for software-based marketplace businesses.
Invitation to invest £5k – £25k in a 10-year revenue share ‘chip’ with annual cash payout, no dilution and anytime-exit.
- Base case return of 9x money, or £45,000 dividend per £5k chip.
- On-target market share return payout: £110,000 per £5k chip.
- Subject to AML approval and our first refusal, you can sell chips during their 10yr lifespan and lock in early upside.
Before we approach experienced angel investors and Venture Capitalists, I wanted to offer everyone who has helped me in any way the opportunity to participate from the ‘ground floor’ at half the price the professional investors will be paying, or on terms twice as good.
This isn’t a request for investment and I make no assumption that you either are or aren’t in a position to make an investment.
It’s an invitation, an offer, on a first come, first served basis for anyone who would like to help while offering a return on your money equivalent to that of major tech startups.
It’s really important to me that no one who would have liked to participate feels left out. I’d much rather you declined the invitation now, than to later discover you missed out and would have liked to invest.
Compared with most startups the anticipated returns may seem unrealistically high. Software based marketplace businesses are unusual in that they don’t have inventory, stock, or costs of sales. We provide an environment for others to connect and transact. We then take a commission on multiple different revenue streams.
So our gross margins are very high, more than 90%, and automatically billed and collected.
Combine those high margins with the high ticket price of the items being traded (homes and related professional services) and the high profitability starts to make sense.
We’ve been building this for 10 years. The riskiest part is mostly complete.
Now we need to build the leadership team to bring it to market.
We have a truly exceptional Advisory Board, unparalleled in the property sector.
We also have a powerful selection of partner companies, plus two government agencies, all of which help to deliver the faster home transactions everyone wants.
We also have full sponsorship of the Moving Home with Charlie podcast channels as soon as we’re ready for it.
Finally, we have cultivated some important connections with national media and have had multiple shows of support, when we’re ready for it, which will bring the marketplace to life.
Action if you’d like to invest. First come, first served:
If you’d like to take up the opportunity to get in early, you can move immediately to secure your investment as follows:
Reply to the personal message you received from me with the amount you’d like to invest. I will reply with the bank details, full T’s and C’s and a unique Reference number for you. You will of course also get a full written confirmation/certificate of your investment.
Choose your amount (min £5k, max £25k) in £5k multiples, and deposit it directly into the BestAgent Ltd bank account.
The closing deadline is soon, 31st May, so that we can get started on the next phase (a 7-figure funding round with venture investors).
Next Steps: Review details of the venture, join video conference and/or Battersea meet-up:
For more details on the venture including who’s involved, please visit this confidential and password protected page: bestagent.co.uk/what-is-bestagent password: movepeople
1. For those who already know they wish to participate and are keen to secure their chip(s), please let me know directly as soon as you can, per the steps above.
2. Video Conference – Tuesday 19th May at 6pm along with Alex Groundwater (our COO) I will be hosting a private video call with a brief overview of the opportunity for all who’d like to put any questions to us. I recommend everyone attend this private call if you are even slightly interested.
3. In Person Meet-Up – Thursday 21st May at 6pm in Battersea, Alex and I will be hosting a meet up for any of you who’d like to meet in person and discuss the opportunity any further. Overseas people may be able to join remotely.
Once this private invitation round is closed, we will be proceeding immediately to talks with a waiting list of larger scale investors which we aim to complete by the autumn. If you happen to be someone with a larger appetite to invest beyond the £25k limit of this round, please let me know and I will make sure to follow up with you when the time comes.
Much is at stake, and as our star advisory board member Rory Sutherland said when he first spoke to me, if BestAgent gets this right and eliminates the friction in the housing market, it could add 1 or 2% to GDP and restart the economy.
If you choose to participate and help BestAgent off the ground, I look forward to sharing the rewards with you!
Best wishes to you and yours.
Charlie Lamdin
07966 104332 (WhatsApp always open, preferred to email, love voice notes, fastest way to communicate)
Email: crl@bestagent.co.uk (if you must!)
Thursday 14th May 2026