A London-based housing investment company, backed by Zoopla's owners, that buys and improves single-family rental homes across the UK and lets people invest in them.
Bricklane is a property investment company that lets investors put money into UK homes that are rented out to families. Its employer profile describes it as a housing investment platform that enables investors to access the UK's largest asset class, residential property, efficiently and flexibly. It focuses on single-family rental homes, meaning ordinary houses rented by one household, rather than blocks of flats. A trade report described it expanding its UK portfolio of homes, and the company says it plans to upgrade environmentally inefficient homes with eco-friendly improvements.
Its stated mission is "to set a new standard for residential property investment". Simon Heawood is named as chief executive. The page we read does not give a founding year or founders, though a 2016 article about the company's launch and a Start-ups 100 listing in 2017 show it has existed for several years. In the profile it also says that its backing from Zoopla gives it access to exclusive data, which it uses to help find homes to buy.
Bricklane's office is in central London: the profile gives an address on Baltic Street East in the EC1 area, and also mentions a new office in Old Street, so the location may have moved. The homes it owns are across England, and it says it doubled its UK footprint in 2023. We did not find a list of the towns where it owns property, so we cannot give a regional breakdown. Its focus on the UK means it employs people to find, buy, renovate and manage houses as well as to build investment products.
The profile describes a team of between 21 and 100 people and benefits including hybrid working, an equity stake, two volunteering days a year, training support, private healthcare, a pension, and 25 days of annual leave plus an extra day at Christmas, along with mental health support. These are the company's own statements. Review sites give mixed ratings, which is a reminder to read for yourself what current and former staff say.
People in a business like this work in property acquisition, asset management (looking after the homes), investor relations, finance, data analysis, software engineering and operations. If you are interested in housing, money and how the two connect, Bricklane is a useful example of a UK company that sits between property and finance. Its website is the place to check current roles and its current investment offers.
Website: www.bricklane.com
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