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Edgar Warmoes “I spent four years working as a Marketing Expert in ION’s digital department. My tasks involved commercializing various projects and looking for the right clients. This allowed me to meet young investors looking for intermediate solutions to invest even at a young age. That’s how Immotokens came about!”
Investing in real estate has never been easier
Immotokens is a Ghent-based start-up
At present, real estate investments are
that lets anyone invest in real estate with
mainly for people with substantial wealth or
as little as 50 euros. Their objective is to
who receive financial support from family.
create an open and accessible platform
Former ION employee Edgar Warmoes wants
for everyone to enjoy the benefits of real
to change this as soon as possible with his
estate investment.
start-up Immotokens. They want to use their new platform to make real estate accessible and attractive to everyone. — Bits of real estate By now, everyone has heard of Bitcoin, the first decentralized digital currency without a central bank or administrator. But have you heard of Immotokens? Warmoes recently launched a start-up under this name that uses blockchain technology to create tokens for real estate. With these tokens, you can divide properties into multiple, smaller bits. Anyone buying these bits or Immotokens will receive the income generated by the property. In other words, you can buy a loan with the property as collateral.