Trading In Tokens: How Blockchain Technology Promises To Make Real Estate Affordable, Liquid For More Investors
November 12, 2018

Trading In Tokens: How Blockchain Technology Promises To Make Real Estate Affordable, Liquid For More Investors

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For Stephane De Baets, placing a percentage of the St. Regis Aspen luxury resort on the blockchain is an experimental gamble into the future.

“We wanted to be one of the first to go through the motions because you learn so much,” De Baets said. “We see [blockchain] as an opportunity if you do it right.”

It is always risky to walk out on the bleeding edge of a new trend — and blockchain-fueled investments are one of the hottest trends to hit the commercial real estate market in a long time.

If the tokenization of real estate through the blockchain — dividing a property into shares that are represented by virtual tokens for the value of that share of the property — takes off as expected, it could completely disrupt the…

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