Real Estate Investment In this Era of Cryptocurrencies
Not many years ago, some financial
experts claimed that In US, only 1-2% of all form of money is actually
the cash or physical dollar bills and coins. At first, the percentage
may be shocking to you but when you think about it, you’ll know that
today the percentage is even lower.
No wonder why.
With the rapid increase of credit cards,
debit cards, Blockchain networks and cryptocurrencies to buy goods and
services, the experts could not help but make that claim.
Alternative Sources For Real Estate Capital
Ten or twenty years ago, big banks and
financial institutes showed their interest in helping buyers invest in
real estate. Fast forward 10 – 20 years, today, the interest seems to
have dimmed as the biggest capital sources started to move from real
estate.
With the large financial institutions and
banks shaking off their hands, buyers started to look for alternative
private sources for funds like crowd funding platforms, real estate
funds, hedge funds and all sorts of digital currency systems.
Cryptocurrencies on the Real Estate Industry
If you think enough, you will understand
the total values of Real Estate is way bigger in number than the
combined values of any and all physical or digital currencies, gold,
silver, platinum, stocks and total bank deposit on the earth. So,
investors, these days are not relying on physical cash only as they
clearly understand how important it is to submit to digital currencies
as a way to ensure diversity in financial holdings.
I know that it’s bit vague but the idea
is there’s no way real estate can survive on physical cash only where
Starbucks is accepting Bitcoins.
This is the era of digital currencies and
Blockchain technology. Many Blockchain networks investors were
successful in making a fortune out of their share as their shares
started from cents to dollars to almost hundreds of dollars and now,
tens of thousands of dollars. So, the source of capital for real estate
investment needs to adapt.
The process of adaptation has already
started as an online based international real estate marketplace; named
Propy is allowing people to invest in the properties using digital
currencies. They became the pioneer in this field as they officially
transferred the deed and closed the deal using Blockchain currency. It
was in South Burlington, Vermont but I can assure that it’ll spread all
around the world, very soon and people of all sectors will realize the
potential of cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, Blockchain.
Already the company had finished a deal
that involved properties in Ukraine and the non-physical money,
according to the CEO of Propy, Mr. Natalia Karayaneva. He also added
that their system will be used for deals in Dubai and California very
soon.
But the question is – will the deal in
Vermont change anything for rest of the states or not? Also, how the
title insurance, banks, agents, investors, and escrow companies will be
affected by it? Will the process ultimately speed up? Will we see its
mass acceptance in real estate? Only time can tell.
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