56:. Its commercial spaces were built to allow small investors from China to take advantage of the Tier 1 entrepreneur's visa programme. Most investors consisted of individual families who had paid £40,000 each as 30% downpayment for their apartment. Some prospective investors paid up to 50% of their share upfront as a deposit. The site is currently being demolished and awaiting designs for a new development.
92:. One was Pinnacle Angelgate, the company behind the Angelgate project in Manchester, went into administration in 2017. It was a sister company of North point global. Many of the proposed 344 apartments in that project were also sold off-plan to Chinese and Hong Kong investors, who paid deposits of more than £31m to secure the properties.
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