Key facts:
The operation required an initial payment of 0.03 BTC, to reserve the property.
La Haus made a first sale with bitcoin of a property in Mexico.
Barely a month after the start of a pre-sale of homes in Colombia that accepts bitcoin (BTC) as a form of payment, the first negotiation with the mother cryptocurrency as the protagonist was completed. The transaction was managed by the real estate agency La Haus, which made the announcement on Thursday afternoon on the social network Twitter.
The company announced at the end of last year the opening of the presale of a residential project that those interested can pay with bitcoin. As reported by CriptoNoticias, it is a housing development called Natura City, which will be built in Santa Marta, a coastal area recognized as a tourist, cultural and historical district in Colombia.
It was for one of the 184 dwellings of said project that the first real estate transaction with bitcoin in Colombia. According to the local press, the buyer would be a woman from Medellin, who was out of the country at the time of the operation.
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The Haus pointed out that the amount was paid using the lightning network, through the OpenNode platform, a bitcoin payment processor that offers a simplified platform for business use. Since November, the real estate company had announced that it would enable bitcoin payments for the sale of residential properties on its platform, through the OpenNode interface.
It transpired that the amount traded in this first operation was 0.03 BTC, around USD 1,200 at the time of writing, corresponding to the housing reservation. Also, the buyer expressed her desire to pay the full amount of housing with bitcoin, estimated at about 2.19 BTC.
“We are working to bring this type of alternative to the rest of the country, so that the payment methods and the form of investment are not a barrier to access residential goods,” said Jehudi Castro, Vice President of Innovation and Future of La Haus, on the company’s official Twitter account.
La Haus, which operates in Colombia and Mexico, had already finalized a first real estate agreement with bitcoin, for an apartment in the coastal city of Tulum, located in the Mexican Riviera Maya. In said sale, which took place in early 2022, the buyer paid 5.78 BTC for the property.
The company has stated that their use of bitcoin is not speculative, but rather as an exchange currency, to prevent the parties involved in the negotiation from being exposed to market volatility.