Oakridge Property Investments Property Bonds Review

By J Drew -

 

Oakridge Property Investments

There is a company called EWP Group that is offering investments in various unregulated high risk bond offers with a slick presenter telling potential investors about the safety of the investments. It needs to be highlighted that ANY unregulated investment has NO FSCS protection and is therefore very high risk. Any investors should be using their regulated investment options before even looking at these sort of unregulated high risk options. The companies being promoted by EWP Group appear to be Oakridge and Big Roar property bond investments.

Oakridge appears to be unconnected to the US based company Oakridge Investments. There are also other UK companies with this name but the relevant UK company appears has 2 employees according to their latest accounts which raises a question as to how big they actually are. They have also only been in existence since 2023 which doesn't give a very long track record for handing money over to. Their last accounts show their total assets amount to being £23 in debt which again doesn't offer any reassurance of financial stability. The picture may have changed since those accounts were filed but the next ones aren't due until May 2026.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15085248/filing-history

If any investment company is telling you that an unregulated investment is safe or anything other than high risk then they are best avoided. Unregulated investments are NEVER safe or low risk.

EWP Group is promoting these companies and as an introducer will be getting a fee or commission for that which isn't disclosed. With failed investment companies like LCF or Blackmore Bonds the commission was as much as 25% of the initial investment from the customer. As these products are unregulated there is no requirement for the company to tell you how much of your money is given as commission.

These sorts of property investments are often claimed to be asset backed. In reality this means nothing as the assets may not exist or may not have any value. Blackmore Bond claimed to have multiple property investments worth tens of millions of pounds but when they went bust it was found that none of the investment sites had any value as they had other loans against them or had no development in place.

Finally these sorts of investments are ONLY meant to be sold to experienced investors. The sign up contact forms make absolutely no mention of this and have no qualifying questions to ascertain suitability which does raise some very big red flags about the company and their trustworthiness.

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