Alex Horn

My experience spans every asset class, residential, commercial, industrial, strategic land, and the full lifecycle of a transaction, from identifying an opportunity through to exit. Over that time I've worked on sites tied up in greenbelt policy, properties carrying restrictive covenants that had blocked buyers for years, planning constraints that looked insurmountable until you understood the system, title disputes that had stalled transactions indefinitely, and building safety issues that stopped sales dead.

Some of those problems were solvable. Some slowed everything down. Some meant walking away entirely. But in every case, the issue was there from day one, knowable from the start, if you had the experience to look for it.

Most buyers never get that chance. The information only surfaces weeks or months into the legal process, once the fees are running and the emotional investment is real. By then, walking away costs you.

PropM8 exists to change that. The due diligence I run before committing to any deal is now available on any UK address, in plain English, in minutes. The same checks. The same data sources. The same risk grading, without needing 14 years of experience to interpret it.

Nearly 1 in 3 UK property sales fall through. Most of those failures were preventable. Buyers lose thousands in wasted legal fees, survey costs and mortgage expenses, on properties they never moved into, because the problems came to light too late.