You raise some interesting points around institutional investment in the private rented sector.

However work we commissioned on institutional investment in the private rented sector suggests a number of things:

- there are no economies of scale from institutional investment.

"Until the last 12 to 18 months, there has always been relatively little institutional investment here from North America," he said.

The challenge is to create a tax structure that encourages long-term institutional investment without causing more harm than good.

According to Forbes Magazine, the company is currently opening a round for institutional investment.

The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect.

Financial industry executives said the proposed taxes would have reduced institutional investment, particularly by foreigners.

Soon there's such an institutional investment in the original technology, no matter how flawed, that it's very hard to move on to something better.

Swipp received an additional $2 million dollars in institutional investment from its original investors in April 2013.