Issuing property tokens on the blockchain and creating a
marketplace for owners, retail and institutional investors, could
energize the regional real estate market. Getting involved in
fractional property ownership using tokens requires legal
knowledge.
A Q&A with Nadim Bardawil and
AMEinfo.
Are individual and constitutional investors in this
region legally comfortable with this blockchain-based
setup?
The majority of investors in the region are still unsure about
what blockchain is or how it operates in practice. There also are
some misconceptions with regards to what owning a
“token” means from a legal standpoint and whether it
provides for free and unfettered access to the underlying asset. We
note that this is not only a regional trend but seems to be a
global trend as there has been a marked slow-down in real estate
tokenization projects worldwide. Institutional investors would
especially look for regulatory supervision on the tokenization of
assets to
