{"id":38812,"date":"2025-07-25T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38812"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:16:52","slug":"luxury-brokerage-christies-allows-buyers-to-purchase-real-estate-with-crypto-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38812","title":{"rendered":"Luxury Brokerage Christie&#8217;s Allows Buyers to Purchase Real Estate With Crypto: NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Christie\u2019s International Real Estate has launched a dedicated division to facilitate real estate transactions conducted entirely in cryptocurrency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/24\/realestate\/crypto-real-estate-christies.html\">the New York Times reported on Thursday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Spearheaded by Aaron Kirman, CEO of a Christie\u2019s-affiliated firm in Los Angeles, the initiative follows several high-profile deals, including a $65 million Beverly Hills transaction where crypto was used exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>The new division comprises legal, financial, and crypto experts to handle peer-to-peer transactions without reliance on banks. The goal is to enable high-end buyers and sellers \u2014 often seeking privacy \u2014 to use digital assets seamlessly for real-world property acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>With roughly 14% of Americans owning crypto, Kirman projects that digital currency could represent over a third of U.S. residential real estate deals within five years.<\/p>\n<p>The use of crypto offers enhanced buyer anonymity, often via LLCs funded directly with digital assets, making ownership harder to trace than traditional banking channels. <\/p>\n<p>Kirman\u2019s crypto-accepting portfolio now exceeds $1 billion in value, including marquee properties like the $118M La Fin in Bel Air and Joshua Tree\u2019s $17.95M Invisible House.<\/p>\n<p>Christie&#8217;s did not respond to CoinDesk&#8217;s request for further <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie\u2019s International Real Estate has launched a dedicated division to facilitate real estate transactions conducted entirely in cryptocurrency, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Spearheaded by Aaron Kirman, CEO of a Christie\u2019s-affiliated firm in Los Angeles, the initiative follows several high-profile deals, including a $65 million Beverly Hills transaction where crypto was used exclusively. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-38812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}