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Why I am excited about Blockchain

I am going to start with a bit of a personal story. When I was growing up I was fascinated by the idea of becoming a great leader. Someone whose name would reverberate across time. Do great things and make life better for the common man. Be a hero. I wanted to emulate…

Why Australia needs to issue its own Crypto Dollar but most likely wont and how the global currency will come about

In the spirit of the weekend I am going to take a detour today from focusing purely on writing about Konkrete and am going to talk to…

How KONKRETE Fractional property fund can help Buyers Advocates, Real Estate Agents and Mortgage Brokers

There is a Chinese curse, which goes something along the lines of, May he live in interesting times. For the property industry things are definetely…

How the KONKRETE blockchain can help property developers

Property developers are facing a pincer of problems. On the funding side, banks are tightening the lending criteria which is reducing the LVRs and increasing the presales requirements. Documentation and pre-requisites are getting…

What are security or Asset tokens and why they are exciting

Much has been spoken and written around how a lot of ICOs have been skirting regulations and are actually securities. I am in general agreement on this and bar very very few most of them are clearly securities. I am also in…

Fractional property enabled by Blockchain

Problem

A house is a relatively illiquid asset. It is also one of the biggest purchases one makes. Saving enough for a deposit is difficult for younger generations in the era of ever increasing property prices, and getting it…

Securities on the Blockchain

One of the great things about reading the position papers issued by the securities regulator in Australia is the intelligence inherent in them. They are well thought out and the overriding objective is to develop principles that withstand advent of new technologies such as but…

The 3 stage plan revisited

Almost 2 years back I wrote down the 3 stage plan I had for Estate Baron. It is loosely modelled on the plan Elon Musk has for Tesla.

Start with what the vision is and then work backwards to determine the key steps needed to achieve it. The 3 step plan…

Why we opt for a Diversified Property Fraction

At konkrete.io we are focused on making housing affordable by allowing people to crowdfund their home deposits and enabling those with existing properties to be able to release equity without taking on additional debt.