Bitcoin Is Taking The Real Estate Industry By Storm As Major New York City Co...
Bitcoin adoption is on the rise. Major industries are starting to realize that this is not something that they can overlook and it’ll go away. So they are now taking the initiative to incorporate crypto payments onto their services. After making the rounds through legal tender acceptance in El Salvador, bitcoin adoption has now headed […]
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Manhattan-based BOND New York real estate brokerage firm has announced today that they will be accepting bitcoin payments for real estate transaction fees (note: not for actual properties), likely making it the first real estate firm to do so in the country. "Bitcoin is a convenient and inexpensive way for our customers to transfer money so we see it as a win-win situation which will impact the real estate industry," said co-founder Noah Freedman. BOND's Brian Dusseau says that "We are accepting Bitcoin as a service to our customers who prefer to use the digital currency as a matter of....
Deloitte's Netherlands branch is working with the city of Rotterdam to create a prototype for recording lease contracts on a blockchain. In conjunction with the Cambridge Innovation Center (a real estate services firm based in the US), the project will focus on developing a platform for managing housing transactions. The area is one being explored by several startups, with the Rotterdam trial representing the latest effort to bridge the real estate industry and blockchain. The first part of the process involved building a mechanism for recording lease agreements. From there, those involved....
In a notable endorsement and application of blockchain technology, the Dutch City of Rotterdam is working with Deloitte Netherlands and the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) to develop a real estate blockchain application to record lease agreements. First announced by Deloitte Netherlands, the aim of the blockchain pilot project is to conclude legally binding lease contracts “faster and easier” before eventually monitoring rental payments as well. “By implementing additional blockchain applications in the real estate industry, transaction times and costs can be reduced further,” stated Jan....
Buying real estate doesn’t have to be as tedious as it has been in the past. In fact, you can actually start buying digital real estate right inside the metaverse for a much lower cost than you would purchase it in the real world. In addition, a handful of metaverses also intend to offer tokenized fractional shares in real estate properties, meaning you can own a piece of real-world real estate for a fraction of the price. This article will cover some of the best real estate metaverses to watch for in 2022. Some projects intend to bring real-world real estate assets onto the blockchain,....
Ragnar Lifthrasir, President of the International Bitcoin Real Estate Association, has become the new Director of Real Estate for Ubitquity. Ubitquity uses the blockchain to help prevent fraudulent transactions in real estate markets, while allowing an improvement on the settling of claims, and tracking the record of ownership across the entire real estate industry. We were able to interview Ragnar, discussing his new role as Director of Real Estate for Ubitquity. What are your thoughts on the Blockchain 2.0? Can bitcoin’s blockchain be improved upon vastly?