How Real Estate NFTs will Impact Real Estate in the Future

Question

In my opinion real estate NFTS will have a huge impact on real estate in the future.

Firstly, real estate NFTs guarantee easily traceable, secure records of ownership for a variety of property investments.

Secondly, they will permit real estate transactions in virtual worlds, which are becoming a new investing frontier. NFTs will provide easy ways to transfer ownership of shares in real estate investments or virtual real estate. NFTs that represent fractional ownership in real world investments will be more stable. Liquidity is a big issue in real estate today. As more investors buy into the idea of fractional real estate ownership, owners are selling off portions of their digital assets. Blockchain technology will eventually eliminate the middleman and lower the risks associated with property transfers between parties.

Thirdly, property tokenization will facilitate easier borrowing or lending via NFTs. Imagine refinancing your home by putting down your property NFT as collateral and using a DeFi protocol to get access to more competitive debt offer. NFTs might easily convert into bitcoin as collateral, facilitating owners’ access to mortgages. What people don't realize yet, is that NFTs are the trojan horse into the next wave of user adoption. People want to feel like owners. Owning fractional shares of properties via NFTs will be a new way for people to feel like owners and get access to a stable appreciating asset class in a way that REITs never could.

Which of the two would you rather own, a share in a REIT or a real estate NFT of a property you have shares in?

Chris Seveney · Answer

@Alex Kim

Honesty I would rather own a reit because of diversity vs a piece of a single asset. The fractional ownerships I have seen to date appear to have very high fees (acquisition, disposition and management) which you can get away with on a larger MF syndication but on a $250k rental…

Just my 2 cents. Curious to hear other peoples opinions.

Alex Kim · Answer

This is a fair perspective. I'll try to pose my posts moreso as questions moving forward. I haven't seen as many posts about crypto tokenization of real estate on this platform so I started this off as an opinion rather than an open question for forum discussion. Thanks for the feedback Don and keep in touch!

Sean Ross · Answer

Oh it is more than assuming now. Go try shilling your virtual NFT world somewhere else.  You proved your actual with your bullshit answers

Alex Kim · Answer

What is that easy way @Sean Ross? Go to the county clerk, dust off the file cabinet, and find the owner?

While I'm all for stepwise improvement of those sorts of systems, new infra and the regulation that's bound to it could make this process so much smoother! Call me an optimist..Re: exits and liquidity of stock exchanges, I'm actually very well versed in securities law and the regulations that guide the forced X year lockup periods depending on Reg X you go through as well as the requirements to become a broker-dealer, registered exchange or an NSE with experience on the syndication side of things as well as legal. I'd suggest that you don't assume :)

All for positive vibes here. Just wanted to express an opinion and see what peoples' thoughts were.

Sean Ross · Answer

LOL IF ONLY THERE WAS SOME EASY AND SECURE WAY TO TRACE RECORDS OF OWNERSHIP ON A PROPERTY

Seems you are a little uneducated or unexperienced in real estate, especially when it comes to REITS , the rules regarding reits, the financial benefits and structuring of reits and the LIQUIDITY of almost any stock exchange.

Alex Kim · Answer

Appreciate the thoughts @Chris Seveney. I am assuming you're referring to Arrived Homes or PeerStreet when you refer to current fractional RE models right?

I'm curious as well - if the fees were equal, would you feel the exact same way?

How Real Estate NFTs will Impact Real Estate in the Future

Most Popular Reply