Goldman Sachs enters tokenized real estate market

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Eugene Komchuk

6 hours ago

Goldman Sachs enters tokenized real estate market — Goldman Sachs’ new blockchain initiative

Goldman Sachs has joined a group of financial and crypto companies that have launched a tokenized real estate fund. This is another institutional project in the real-world asset tokenization segment, which is gaining momentum in real estate investing.

According to CoinDesk, Goldman Sachs is working on a blockchain-native fund together with Apex Group, Archax, Ownera, and real estate investment manager LRC Group. The project involves tokenizing ownership interests in real estate assets.

How the new project works

The initiative combines a traditional investment fund structure with blockchain-based asset issuance. This allows fund shares to be represented on-chain while remaining within existing governance rules and regulatory requirements.

The fund shares are issued through GS DAP, Goldman Sachs’ digital asset platform. LRC Group acts as the fund manager, while Archax is responsible for custody of regulated digital securities and has become the first distribution partner. Ownera connects market participants and distribution channels.

Within this structure, Apex Group provides alternative investment fund manager services through Fundrock LIS. Apex Fund Services Luxembourg is also responsible for fund administration and depositary services for assets that are not financial instruments.

Mathew McDermott, Global Head of Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, said that issuing fund shares through GS DAP allows for more precise investment in real estate and lays the groundwork for easier transfer of such assets in the future.

Why real estate tokenization is needed

The idea behind such projects is to turn real estate from an expensive and illiquid asset into a set of digital shares that can be owned and potentially transferred more easily than a traditional stake in a fund or property. In this case, an investor does not buy an entire apartment or building, but a tokenized part of an asset — for example, a share in a fund that owns real estate. This is why such initiatives involve not only blockchain companies, but also banks, asset managers, custodians, and fund administrators: they need to preserve the familiar legal structure while making the accounting and circulation of shares more technological.

Earnings in this model are built around two sources. The first is income from the property itself, such as rental payments or the distribution of fund profits among share holders. The second is the potential increase in the value of the property and tokenized shares if the real estate appreciates or demand for those shares appears on the secondary market. For investors, this looks like a way to enter the real estate market with a smaller ticket size, while for financial companies, it is an opportunity to package a traditional asset into a more flexible digital format.

As a reminder, SpaceX has selected Goldman Sachs as the lead bank for its IPO.

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