The company behind Elements Estates intends to build a decentralized investment platform, wherein the properties are listed on the service, and represented as offerings for prospective investors. According to the whitepaper, the product is access to a specific market. This actually raises a question about the properties themselves. The whitepaper mentions that different stakeholders are connected via smart contracts on the blockchain, and hence the blockchain establishes trust between the parties involved, but there’s no mention about security tokens representing the individual properties, yet. If such an opportunity does arise at some point, it would definitely be an improvement. Otherwise, the system is sufficient for a decentralized real estate agency to operate, successfully in theory. At the moment, the single point of failure is definitely represented by the fund. The smart contract, specifically.

This kind of settlement has to be airtight to work out, because the properties aren’t represented as tokens themselves. What makes the process unique is that the properties are intended to be auctioned on the blockchain. An auction contract could in fact work out of the box. There’s mentioned deposits, maintenance fees and so on. All separate processes definitely need their own smart contract.