From tokenisation to tradability: how blockchain is democratising real estate investment AUDIO
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R eal estate has long required substantial capital, offered limited liquidity, and been dominated by institutional or high-net-worth investors. Blockchain technology is changing this by enabling ‘tokenisation’ – digitally representing property interests on a ledger – so investors can own fractions of assets and transfer them with greater transparency.
minimum investment sizes and potentially improving secondary-market liquidity. Forecasts vary, but widely cited analyses project US$16.1 trillion of tokenised assets across classes by 2030 (BCG + ADDX); other blue-chip outlooks put total tokenised assets near US$1 – $4 trillion by 2030, with tokenised real estate reaching ~US$4 trillion by 2035.
Global context: blockchain’s role in real-estate transformation Blockchain’s distributed ledgers deliver immutability (means they cannot be changed), transparency and programmability (via smart contracts). In real estate, that enables tokenisation of equity or income streams, lowering
Co-authored by Wayne Berger and Peter Levett : Joint Chief Executives at iShack Ventures
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