EMURGO Africa’s Adaverse Invests in HouseAfrica to Rework Land Possession Processing

Adaverse, a Cardano ecosystem accelerator in Africa, has introduced its funding in HouseAfrica, a proptech firm that leverages blockchain expertise to digitise and improve land possession in Africa. Adaverse joins different distinguished traders on this funding spherical to help HouseAfrica’s progress trajectory and enlargement into new markets.

Adaverse is a three way partnership between EMURGO Africa, and Everest Ventures Group, established in 2021 with the purpose of figuring out and funding promising fintech options in Africa which are constructing Web3 infrastructures to facilitate digitally-relevant growth in rising economies. One such firm constructing affect is HouseAfrica, which provides a novel answer to handle property possession challenges in Africa. The funding might be used to develop HouseAfrica’s operations and combine its options with Cardano, a third-generation blockchain, to supply a extra environment friendly and safe technique of land registration and property possession in Africa.

“Land possession is a key think about a rustic’s financial progress, offering a basis for funding and growth. HouseAfrica is uniquely positioned to handle the challenges of land possession which may have a profound affect on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Africans, and we’re excited to be a part of this journey”, stated Vincent Li, founding companion at Adaverse.

Africa’s actual property market is quickly rising and evolving, with a present valuation of $15 trillion, it’s anticipated to succeed in a price of $20 trillion by 2028. Whereas progress dynamics might fluctuate throughout international locations and areas, widespread obstacles persist. These challenges embrace excessive transaction prices, restricted entry to financing, and an absence of transparency in land possession, which has hindered funding, significantly from the diaspora. Conventional land tenure programs prevalent in lots of African international locations additionally make it difficult for ladies and the uneducated to legally personal land, additional limiting their financial prospects.

Nevertheless, there’s a rising recognition of the potential of expertise, together with blockchain, to handle these challenges and unlock the sector’s full potential. In Nigeria alone, there may be an estimated $900 billion value of lifeless capital locked down in lands as a result of an absence of verification of their possession, making them non-bankable. Unlocking these lands with extremely scalable expertise may have a major affect on the Nigerian economic system, doubtlessly growing the nation’s GDP to $1.4 trillion. HouseAfrica goals to construct a dependable system of land possession by means of its progressive and pioneering options.

HouseAfrica is a proptech firm that leverages digital options to deal with actual property challenges in Africa. The flagship product, Sytemap, is an ecosystem platform that utilises blockchain and satellite tv for pc maps to create extra belief and transparency in land transactions. Sytemap provides a whole property format, highlighting the placement and standing of accessible plots. This platform streamlines land acquisition and processing for consumers, attorneys, actual property corporations, and brokers. It additionally empowers digital realtors to safeguard their fame, whereas offering actual property builders with a aggressive edge that ends in a 50% discount within the nerve-racking gross sales course of.

In 2019 Nnamdi Uba and Ndifreke Ikpoku launched HouseAfrica as an effort to make use of expertise to vary the adverse narrative surrounding actual property funding in Africa. The corporate has yielded vital outcomes, with over 100 actual property corporations issuing greater than 5,000 titles to consumers, and over 500 realtors energetic on the Sytemap web site. Fashionable actual property corporations equivalent to Arnold & Associates, Leadway, Uvest, SmartCity, SilverPacific, SandTrust, and Bamboo have leveraged Sytemap’s ease and quick processing automation. 

CEO and Co-Founder Nnamdi Uba on the usage of blockchain, commented, “Many actual property markets in Africa are riddled with intermediary complexities, extortion, duplicate land titles, lack of belief, possession verification, and privateness. We’re leveraging Web3 and blockchain to supply immutability of knowledge and eradicate duplicity of possession. By means of our Sytemap platform, we’re in a position to report landowners’ information and proof of land allocation as NFTs, every with a novel identifier, making it unattainable to tamper with.”