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Leone Investments review: Consob-licensed Italian property lending from EUR 1,000 at 10-12%. EUR 31.7m raised - but unsecured, illiquid, no default data.

LEONE INVESTMENT - Risk and return review

Risk Level
High
The platform's own tables show 11 of 68 projects late, EUR 7,789,100, or 23.7% of everything it has ever raised. And it is getting worse: half the money raised in 2024 is late, and a third of 2025. The loans are unsecured, with no mortgage on the property, so if a developer fails there is nothing to sell and recovery costs fall on investors. Leone still publishes no default rate, no write-offs and no recoveries, so nobody can say how much of the late money comes back.
Return Level
High
The 11.05% is Leone Investments' own published average return, updated 5 September 2026, on an average investment of EUR 5,460 held for about 14 months. Read it carefully. It blends finished and still-running projects, and the interest behind it expressly includes interest that has built up on live projects but has not been paid out. It is a figure before losses, and the platform's own tables show 23.7% of all money raised currently late, so the gap between this headline and what investors finally receive could be wide.
Risk Return Level
Bad
An 11% headline looks like strong pay, and it is above the Italian market average. But you would earn it lending without security to single property projects, with your money locked for 12 to 15 months and no way out. And the risk is no longer invisible: 23.7% of everything raised is late, including half the money raised in 2024. You lose money if a project fails and the developer cannot pay, because there is no mortgage, no guarantee, and recovery costs fall on investors. We score the trade-off Low.

LEONE INVESTMENT - Returns and loss rates

Returns
Fixed interest: 11.05% The 11.05% is the platform's published average return as at 6 August 2026. It mixes finished and still-running projects, and expressly includes interest accrued on live deals that has not yet been paid to anyone, so it is closer to a projected blended rate than money in investors' pockets. It is before any losses - which the platform does not report - and before tax.
Loss Rates
Default rate: 23.70% Leone Investments does publish its late projects, in the tables on its statistics page: 11 of its 68 projects are late, carrying EUR 7,789,100, which is 23.7% of the EUR 32.8 million it has raised since 2022. It is a lateness figure, not a loss: the platform still publishes no default rate, no write-off figure and no recovery data, so how much of that 7.8 million comes back is unknown. The damage is concentrated by year. Of the EUR 8.5 million raised in 2024, EUR 4.4 million is late, and of the EUR 9.2 million raised in 2025, EUR 3.0 million.

Investment maturity

Platform offering investments from 12 months till 18 months.

LEONE INVESTMENT – Platform statistics 2026

Information updated at: 09 Sep 2026
Number of investors 5000 investors
81 projects funded
31.0M EUR funded amount

LEONE INVESTMENT – Pros & Cons

PROS
Strong customer sentiment: Trustpilot 4.9 out of 5 from about 253 reviews, and campaigns routinely fill within hours - one raised EUR 1.59 million in five days.
Advertised rates of 10-12% on 12-15 month projects sit above the Italian market average of about 10.4% for property crowdlending.
Properly authorised: Consob granted its EU crowdfunding licence (resolution 22919) in December 2023, and no regulatory warning, sanction or scam allegation was found anywhere.
Its statistics page is genuinely current - last updated 6 August 2026 - showing EUR 31.7 million raised, EUR 12.1 million returned and an 11.05% average return.
Real governance touches for its size: an evaluation committee and board approval for each project, an internal auditor, membership of Italy's financial disputes arbitrator (ACF) and a whistleblowing channel.
CONS
The platform's own terms disclose that its payment provider Lemonway has been temporarily barred by the Bank of Italy from opening new accounts - a direct obstacle for new investors.
No exit: no secondary market or resale noticeboard exists, so money is locked for the full term; the only escape is the four-day cooling-off window.
Loans are unsecured and the platform says capital is not guaranteed by anyone, in any way; no mortgage or lien is described for any project, and recovery costs fall on investors.
The platform's own tables show 11 of 68 projects late, EUR 7.8 million or 23.7% of all money raised, with half the 2024 vintage and a third of 2025 already behind.

About LEONE INVESTMENT

Leone Investments (legal name Leone Investment S.r.l.) is a Rome-based property crowdfunding platform, authorised by Italy's markets regulator Consob under EU crowdfunding rules in December 2023. Investors lend from EUR 1,000 to Italian property developers for individual building and renovation projects, mostly over 12 to 15 months, at advertised rates of 10-12% a year, repaid together with the capital in one lump sum at the end.

Since launching in April 2022 it has raised about EUR 31.7 million and claims more than 5,000 investors; its statistics page - refreshed in August 2026 - shows EUR 12.1 million returned so far and an average return of 11.05%.

What the investor holds is plain unsecured project debt: the platform states outright that the money is not guaranteed by anyone, in any way, and no mortgage or other security is described for any project.

There is no way to sell out early - no secondary market or resale noticeboard exists - so money is locked until the developer repays; the only escape is the standard four-day cooling-off period after investing. Investor cash sits in a personal payment account at Lemonway, a French payment institution, separate from the platform's own funds, though investments themselves have no deposit-guarantee or compensation cover.

The platform charges investors no fees and earns from the developers.

Its marketing emphasises speed - campaigns have filled in under a minute - but the operating company is small: five employees and a 2025 profit of under EUR 6,000 on EUR 685,000 of revenue. The site is Italian-only.

Regulation

License / Regulation: Licensed under European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSP) regulation

Functionality

Autoinvest: No
Deal rating: No
Secondary market: No
Payment provider: ECSPR crowdfunding service provider, Consob | Licence 22919 |

For Investors

Limitations: Leone Investments is open to retail and professional/sophisticated investors, with investor classification applied under ECSPR rules. Non-sophisticated investors must complete a mandatory appropriateness questionnaire and loss-bearing-capacity assessment before investing. They also benefit from a four-day withdrawal period during which an investment can be cancelled without penalty. Investments above €1,000 or 5% of the investor’s assessed loss-bearing capacity require an additional explicit risk confirmation.
Minimum investment: 1,000 EUR

Useful Information

Project selection process on LEONE INVESTMENT

The platform's official disclosure describes five stages: collecting documentation from the developer, verifying it is complete and consistent and that the promoters have no criminal record, review by an internal evaluation committee, approval by the board of directors, and publication. The customer-facing version is simpler: a sourcing team finds deals, assesses feasibility, and publishes the project with its projected return. Nothing quantitative is published - no loan-to-value limit, no minimum developer equity or track record, no acceptance rate - and no risk grade is given; the interest rate is the only signal of risk. The document describing all this has not been revised since December 2023.

Risk management after funding on LEONE INVESTMENT

Very little is published. Investors receive periodic project updates, and the platform describes a liquidation preference giving investors priority repayment of capital and interest - but with no detail on how it ranks against any bank lending on the project, and no security backing it. The terms make clear that recovery costs in a failure fall on investors, and a help-centre article on developer insolvency exists but its content is not accessible. There is no published arrears policy, no extension or workout procedure, and - most importantly - no public record of whether any project has ever been late, extended or defaulted.

Negative publicity or reviews on LEONE INVESTMENT

No scandal, regulatory warning, sanction or complaint thread was found - searches on the usual Italian scam and complaint terms returned nothing, and Consob has published no measure against the platform. Trustpilot shows 4.9 out of 5 from 253 reviews with about 95% five-star, as reported in mid-August 2026. Interpret the score carefully: with projects averaging 14 months and only 38% of raised capital returned so far, many reviewers cannot yet have completed a full investment cycle, and the platform channels users to Trustpilot from its homepage. The real cautions are structural rather than reputational: no default disclosure despite an EU-rules obligation to publish one, a transparency rating of two stars out of five from industry body Eurocrowd, an uncorrected '1040% return' typo in its own press summaries, and the disclosed Bank of Italy restriction on its payment provider Lemonway.

Costs for investors on LEONE INVESTMENT

Investing is free: the terms state no costs or charges apply to investors for subscribing, and the platform earns from the developers instead (their fee schedule is unpublished). Two exceptions are named in the terms: any charges under your separate payment-account contract with Lemonway, and recovery expenses if a project fails and enforcement is needed - both unquantified. The tax treatment could not be verified: the help-centre article on taxation was unreachable, so whether the platform withholds Italian tax at source or investors must declare it themselves remains unclear. Ask the platform directly before investing

Team behind the platform on LEONE INVESTMENT

The founders are young entrepreneurs rather than property-credit veterans: co-founder and CEO Armando Perrone comes from commercial negotiation and sales; COO Davide Cozzali co-founded the platform with him; CFO Claudio Rossi is described as an international entrepreneur (the platform's claim that his companies generate EUR 1 billion in revenue could not be verified). Antonino Galloni, a former state auditor of 16 years, serves as internal auditor, and two investor managers handle clients. The register shows just five employees as at 2026 - fewer than in 2023 despite volumes growing five-fold - and no named individual is presented with a background in property lending, credit risk or loan workouts.

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