Real Estate

Real Estate Increasingly Popular within Digital Securities – Vertalo and Tokensoft each Launch New Platforms

Updated on June 6, 2021

On The Hunt

Blockchain based endeavours, such as cryptocurrencies, are only now beginning to grasp where they can thrive. It has taken a decade, but there are finally a crop of ‘killer applications’ being developed. This is most recently evident through the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi).

Digital securities are a step behind cryptocurrencies, and are still in the searching phase. With the sector first being distinguished only a few years ago, it is still in its infancy. In time, will it be tokenized art that catches on? Or maybe it will be supercars?

Multiple companies believe that they have determined the best use case for digital securities, and their accompanying services – Real Estate.

Prime Candidate

There are a variety of reasons which make real estate the perfect asset class to undergo restructuring with digital securities.

Traditionally, real estate suffers from low-liquidity
High fees and various ‘middlemen’
Restrictive access

While each of these issues may not stand out as being blatantly detrimental, they most certainly hold back the potential of an industry, ripe for change.

Through the use and implementation of digital securities, each of these points can be addressed. In doing so, opportunities will arise where there were none before; All the while, giving more people access to a newly liquid asset class.

To learn more about why digital securities and real estate are a perfect fit, check out Vertalo's FAQ on the subject HERE.

The Players

In the past week, we have seen two big announcements surrounding digital securities and real estate. These have come from a pair of U.S. based companies, each quickly becoming leaders within their space – Austin based, Vertalo, and San Francisco based, TokenSoft.

Vertalo Real Estate

An influx of digital securities into real estate has shown enough promise, that Vertalo has just formed/launched an entire new branch of their company named Vertalo Real Estate (VRE).

In order to hit the ground running, Vertalo hired the full team at Advantage Blockchain. With this experienced team spearheading the new endeavour, there will, surely, be new and positive developments announced in the coming months.

Among the talent coming on board from Advantage is RECM President, Gary Brandeis. In this new position Brandeis will operate as the President of Vertalo Real Estate.

This new branch is described as being “focused on transforming ownership structures for the commercial real estate market…throughout the United States.”

While initial focus may remain on commercial opportunities, the end goal is to expand into real estate opportunities of all sizes.

Dave Hendricks, CEO of Vertalo, states,

“…the hiring of the Advantage Blockchain team reflects the dramatic increase in interest from commercial real estate owners for increased efficiency and secondary liquidity. Vertalo has always considered commercial real estate – and eventually residential portfolios of all sizes – to be an ideal target market for digital transformation.”

TokenSoft Real Estate

Much like Vertalo, the merits of digital securities merging with real estate has not escaped the attention of TokenSoft. This young company has just announced the launch of a ‘private label marketplace for real estate’.

The purpose of this new platform is a simple, but lofty, goal – enable secondary sales of real estate based private equity. Beyond secondary sales, Tokensoft offers a full suite of services made possible through partnerships with companies, such as Signature Bank and Inveniam Capital Partners

Mason Borda, CEO of Tokensoft, states,

“Real estate investments like these are traditionally illiquid for several years. Leveraging a combination of regulatory automation by use of the blockchain, we’ve been able to bring a much needed liquidity solution to market.”