Planning-Led Real Asset Investment
Disciplined capital allocation and long-term ownership.

Driving sustainable growth and revitalising properties to create thriving communities

Investment

Approach

Circa45 is a planning-led real asset investment platform. Capital is deployed into assets where planning clarity, structural advantage, and execution discipline support long-term ownership.

We prioritise downside protection, capital preservation, and repeatable decision-making over growth narratives or speculative development.

Investment Approach

Circa45 is a planning-led real asset investment platform. Capital is deployed into assets where planning clarity, structural advantage, and execution discipline support long-term ownership.

We prioritise downside protection, capital preservation, and repeatable decision-making over growth narratives or speculative development.

Phase 1:
Transforming
Commercial
Spaces

Kick things off by confirming your status as a high-net-worth or sophisticated investor, or simply book a call with our team to discuss tailored investment opportunities. It's about finding the right fit for your goals and ambitions.

Phase 2:
Building Rental Communities for Tomorrow

We seek out properties bursting with potential, ready to be transformed. Whether it's converting older spaces, developing build-to-rent communities, or breathing new life into urban areas, we focus on sustainable projects that make a real impact.

Phase 3:
Driving Urban Regeneration

From planning to delivery, we handle every step of the development process, ensuring top quality, eco-friendly practices, and seamless execution. And when the work is done, the rewards come in - investors enjoy strong returns and fresh opportunities to keep the momentum going. It’s all about growth that doesn’t just last, but thrives.

Creating Tomorrows Communities, Today

Phase 1:
Transforming
Commercial
Spaces

Kick things off by confirming your status as a high-net-worth or sophisticated investor, or simply book a call with our team to discuss tailored investment opportunities. It's about finding the right fit for your goals and ambitions.

Phase 2:
Building Rental Communities for Tomorrow

We seek out properties bursting with potential, ready to be transformed. Whether it's converting older spaces, developing build-to-rent communities, or breathing new life into urban areas, we focus on sustainable projects that make a real impact.

Phase 3:
Driving Urban Regeneration

From planning to delivery, we handle every step of the development process, ensuring top quality, eco-friendly practices, and seamless execution. And when the work is done, the rewards come in - investors enjoy strong returns and fresh opportunities to keep the momentum going. It’s all about growth that doesn’t just last, but thrives.

Long-Term Asset Stewardship

Background

Circa45 was established to pursue a planning-led approach to real asset investment, focusing on situations where regulatory clarity, asset fundamentals, and disciplined execution support long-term ownership.

Early activity centred on small, controlled projects used to test assumptions around planning risk, delivery complexity, and capital deployment. This phase was intentionally narrow, prioritising learning and repeatability over scale.

Background

As experience accumulated, the platform formalised its development capability, allowing capital to be deployed more selectively into residential and mixed-use assets where planning certainty and structural advantage justified further commitment.

Today, Circa45 operates with a clear investment mandate. Assets are assessed on their ability to preserve capital, generate durable value, and perform across full ownership cycles. Growth is approached cautiously and only where fundamentals support it.

Meet the Team

How We Think About Capital

Capital is deployed with a long-term view, informed by asset fundamentals, planning certainty, and disciplined execution.

We work with a small number of aligned investors and advisors who value capital preservation, clarity of risk, and patient ownership over short-term outcomes.

Conversations are focused on understanding mandate, time horizon, and whether our approach to capital deployment is appropriate. Not all opportunities are suitable for all capital.

We do not operate a public fund or accept unsolicited capital.

Founder and Investment Director

Investment strategy, capital allocation, risk oversight

Glenn Bolton

Glenn is the Founder and Investment Director of Circa45, responsible for investment strategy, capital allocation, and risk oversight across the platform.

His background spans the delivery of complex, high-stakes programmes in regulated environments, where planning discipline, governance, and execution certainty were critical. That experience informs his approach to real asset investment, with a focus on downside protection, structural advantage, and long-term ownership.

At Circa45, Glenn leads underwriting, capital structuring, and investment decision-making, ensuring capital is deployed only where planning clarity, asset fundamentals, and execution capability align.

Development Director

Planning, feasibility, delivery execution

Anthony Peck

Anthony is Development Director at Circa45 and a Chartered Surveyor with extensive experience delivering planning-led residential and mixed-use schemes.

He leads feasibility, planning strategy, design coordination, and delivery execution across the portfolio, with responsibility for translating planning consent into buildable, risk-controlled outcomes.

Anthony’s focus is disciplined delivery. His approach prioritises clarity, cost control, and programme certainty, ensuring assets are executed in line with underwriting assumptions and long-term investment objectives.

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How We Think About Capital

Capital is deployed with a long-term view, informed by asset fundamentals, planning certainty, and disciplined execution.

We work with a small number of aligned investors and advisors who value capital preservation, clarity of risk, and patient ownership over short-term outcomes.

Conversations are focused on understanding mandate, time horizon, and whether our approach to capital deployment is appropriate. Not all opportunities are suitable for all capital.

Meet the Team

Founder and Investment Director

Glenn Bolton

Glenn is the Founder and Investment Director of Circa45, responsible for investment strategy, capital allocation, and risk oversight across the platform.

His background includes leading complex programmes in highly regulated environments, where planning discipline, governance, and execution certainty were critical. This experience informs his approach to real asset investment, with a focus on downside protection, structural advantage, and long-term ownership.

At Circa45, Glenn leads underwriting, capital structuring, and investment decision-making, ensuring capital is deployed only where planning clarity, asset fundamentals, and execution capability align.

Development Director

Anthony Peck

Anthony is Development Director at Circa45 and a Chartered Surveyor with extensive experience delivering planning-led residential and mixed-use developments.

He leads feasibility, planning strategy, design coordination, and delivery execution across the portfolio, translating planning consent into buildable, risk-controlled outcomes.

Anthony’s focus is disciplined delivery, prioritising clarity, cost control, and programme certainty to ensure assets are executed in line with underwriting assumptions and long-term investment objectives.