Real estate crowdfunding website turns to blockchain tech to enhance process

October 30, 2019

Blockchain technology has brought efficiency, transparency, security and ease of use to many industries around the the world, and real estate is anything but immune

When the real estate professionals at the Netherlands-based Max Property Group (MPG) were exploring more efficient ways to manage their business, they initially found themselves coming up short.

“We were looking for a client management product listing system that would reduce some of our admin tasks, and thereby, our workload. We tried several different products, but nothing offered the complete suite of tools that we needed.”

— MPG’s Esther Dekker

She said some of the problems MPG were hoping to solve included time-consuming tasks related to the investment process.

The process generally consisted of multiple rounds of phone calls and emails to answer pertinent questions for the investor, sending and receiving the appropriate paperwork, making corrections to the paperwork, sending the paperwork to the company administrator, communicating payment instructions, and more.

“You get the picture,” Dekker said.

The company decided to take matters into its own hands and build a platform to meet its needs, which quickly evolved into Max Crowdfund where Dekker serves as Property Director.

Max Crowdfund is a real estate crowdfunding platform that incorporates blockchain technology to deliver a more straightforward experience to investors and opens investment opportunities for a wider range of people.

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