La Haus, an online real estate company sold one property in crypto in Santa Marta to a buyer that was not in Colombia at the time of the purchase. The first real estate purchase with Bitcoin has been registered in Colombia last week.
The company already received the a reserve payment for 0.03 BTC a month ago. The purchase was recently completed by a buyer, the operation was completed using Lightning Network through Opennode, a payment processor.
The purchase comes roughly one month after the company announced it would accept bitcoin for reservations and payments for each one of the apartments in Natura City, a development located in Santa Marta with 160 units ready to be sold.
The fact that this type of transaction has taken only a month to be carried out in Colombia speaks of the unsatisfied need that existed. We are working to bring this type of alternative to the rest of the country, so that the payment methods and the way of investment, are not a barrier to access residential property, said Jehudi Castro, Vice President, La Haus
However, La Haus has registered its first crypto purchase in January when a property in Mexico was acquired by a woman living in Peru.
Now a days, more people use crypto as a method of payment. Last Year, In Venezuela a buyer used USDT to acquire an apartment for $12,000.
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