The High Route Agency publishes guides for real estate GP teams raising from accredited investors. Some of those guides touch US securities rules, so every page we publish is held to the standards below.
Noel Walton, our founder and a general partner, writes or directs every guide and signs off on each one before it publishes. His byline on each guide links to his profile. Where a guide draws on Noel's own deals, it says so, keeps to closed deals in the past tense, and describes partners and investors only by their role.
We use AI writing tools to help research, outline and draft our guides. Noel decides what each guide says and edits every draft. Every claim is checked against its primary source before he signs off. The experience in a guide is Noel's own: an AI tool never supplies a story, a figure or a quote.
Every number, rule and market fact on this site traces to its original source: the regulation itself, the regulator's own guidance, the filing, the study, or the platform's own statement. A blog post that repeats a figure is not enough on its own. We word each claim the way its source does, and we link the source where a reader would want to check it. If we can't trace a claim, we cut it, or we say plainly that it is Noel's opinion.
For anything on Regulation D, the sources we cite are:
Before any page publishes, we screen it against our own written checklist. The checklist covers the US Regulation D rules on marketing an offering, US anti-spam rules for email, EU data-protection rules (GDPR), and Austrian VAT where a fee appears.
When a guide touches Regulation D, it describes the conservative reading of the rules, as the rule text, SEC staff guidance and published securities-law commentary set it out. It cites each of those sources, and it ends with a question to put to your own securities counsel. What a reader's own raise may do under the rules is a question for their securities counsel.
Unless a guide says otherwise, no lawyer has reviewed it. Our checklist is a screen we run ourselves, and it is no substitute for advice from your own securities counsel.
Our guides are marketing strategy and education. Nothing here is legal advice. Always review it with your securities counsel. Nothing on this site constitutes investment advice or a solicitation. The High Route Agency is a marketing agency. It does not offer or sell securities or raise capital.
Each guide shows the date it was first published and the date it was last reviewed. When we review a guide, we re-check its sources and update that date.
If you spot an error, email noel@thehighrouteagency.com with the page address and what you think is wrong. Noel reads every report. When we get something wrong, we fix it and add a dated note at the end of the page that says what changed. Correction notes stay on the page.