Luxembourg, October 2026 - LPEA, a driving force in the private capital industry, gave Crayon Partners the floor in issue #39 of its magazine Insight/Out, within the Non-Traditional Investments section.

In The Deposit Gap, Mathias Flattin sets out why rent-to-own has become a real estate asset class in its own right: residential, with financial performance and social impact built into the same instrument.

London is sending a rare signal: record unsold new-build supply on one side, a wall of creditworthy households locked out of mortgages on the other. Firefighters, teachers, engineers and nurses who can comfortably service a mortgage but cannot assemble the lump sum required to obtain one. The barrier is timing, not solvency, and rent-to-own sits precisely at that intersection.

The article is reproduced below.

Read the full issue on the LPEA website.