The British auction house Christie’s opened an office in the United States, which will deal with real estate transactions exclusively for cryptocurrency.

The General Director of the Christie’s subsidiary in Los Angeles Aaron Kirman told The New York Times that the office has already offered wealthy customers of the Cryptanalysts and Law Unit services, where sellers and customers intend to extend the cryptocurrency, not applying for no one banks.

According to the top manager, the office was opened after the company successfully held a number of large transactions using cryptocurrency. In particular, a house called Elementi in Beverly Hills for $ 65 million in bitcoins was sold.

The acquisition of real estate for digital coins is still a rarity, but it is becoming increasingly popular among people who want to buy housing anonymously. Aaron Kirman said that he personally concluded transactions where the buyer was unknown to the seller. At the same time, the seller’s lawyers communicated with representatives of the client to make sure: funds are of legal origin.

Now in the portfolio of the subsidiary of Christie’s there are several residential real estate objects, and their sellers are ready to accept cryptocurrency as payment, the interlocutor of the newspaper assured. The total cost of objects exceeds $ 1 billion. Among them, the La Fin mansion in Los Angeles worth $ 118 million is the most expensive real estate, put up for the sale of crypto assets.

According to Christie’s, after a few years, cryptotransa will be at least a third of residential real estate transactions in the United States. Now the company is negotiating with large American banks about the beginning of digital assets as a fee.

Earlier, the auction house Christie’s announced the launch of the Christie’s 3.0 trading platform on the blockchain, which acts as an intermediary in transactions with inconsistent tokens (NFT).