Structural Review and Performance Evaluation of Real Estate Tokens

Sammanfattning: This thesis study includes quantitative and qualitative research on real estate tokens, one of the leading security tokens. Security tokens, which are based on blockchain technology, are rapidly becoming widespread as new era investment products. Real estate tokens have long stood out as one of the most popular of these tokens. The underlying reason is that the real estate industry is associated with low liquidity and long and expensive transaction processes. Tokenization platforms and real estate market experts believe that tokenization will solve many problems in the traditional market. The products that will emerge through the tokenization of real estate assets can increase liquidity by removing high entry barriers in the market and create a secondary market where intermediaries are minimized. Theoretically, this technology, which can provide secure access to a wide market in a short time, can also mean a new platform for both debt and capital increase. Within the scope of this study, the structure of real estate tokens as financial products was examined, their similarities and differences with traditional products were discussed. Moreover, an empirical analysis has been made by comparing the financial performance of real estate tokens that are actively traded in the secondary market with certain reference indices. The empirical result found that token indices performed favorably with and relative to the crypto market and traditional market indices in the context of risk-adjusted returns.