Yesterday, Japanese real-estate developer Sekisui House announced it is using a blockchain solution to rent houses as part of the NEXCHAIN consortium that includes Hitachi. The aim is to provide an end-to-end solution for home leasing, including enabling a potential lessee to view the vacant property without an agent being present.
Other functions include signing the rental agreement, getting gas and electricity connected, and paying bills.
Last year, Sekisui House, KDDI Corp, and Hitachi said they were piloting an information-sharing blockchain platform for real estate rentals. Telecoms firm KDDI provided identity verification services while Hitachi built the platform using the Ethereum based Quorum enterprise blockchain.
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