Sachin Joshi, Co-Founder & CTO of Alt DRX, shares how the platform is revolutionizing real estate investment through blockchain-powered asset tokenization. By enabling fractional ownership, Alt DRX is making property investment accessible, transparent, and liquid, especially for Gen Z and millennials. In an exclusive interview with TimesTech, Joshi discusses the role of AI, blockchain, and digital twins in transforming India’s real estate landscape.
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TimesTech: What makes Alt DRX’s platform revolutionary, and how does it ensure transparency for investors?
Sachin: In a world where real estate investment has traditionally been complex, expensive, and illiquid, Alt DRX is pioneering a revolutionary approach—
Alt DRX leverages the power of asset tokenization to democratize real estate, making it possible for anyone—not just high-net-worth individuals—to participate in property investments. By breaking down real estate assets into smaller, affordable units, the platform allows users to invest in real estate with minimal capital, much like they would with stocks or mutual funds.
The platform’s seamless integration with India’s advanced digital identity (Aadhaar) and payment systems (UPI, digital banking) ensures a fast, secure, and hassle-free investment experience. With just a few taps on their smartphones, users can invest in premium real estate without the paperwork, legal complexities, or long settlement periods.
Unmatched Transparency Through Technology
One of the biggest concerns in real estate investing is transparency—and Alt DRX addresses this head-on with cutting-edge technology and blockchain-powered verification.
• On-Platform Investment Tracking: Users can refer and verify their investments directly within the platform, ensuring complete visibility into their real estate holdings.
• Immutable Balances: Every investor’s final balance is recorded immutably, providing tamper-proof verificationof ownership and investment history on Blockchain.
• Real-Time Portfolio Access: Investors can track performance, monitor real estate trends
By combining asset tokenization, digital identity authentication, and a fully transparent investment process, Alt DRX is transforming real estate into a truly accessible and manageable financial asset.
Whether you’re a first-time investor or an experienced wealth builder, Alt DRX offers a secure, scalable, and transparent way to grow your portfolio—one square foot at a time.
TimesTech: How is Alt DRX empowering Gen Z and Millennials to confidently invest in real estate?
Sachin: For decades, real estate investment has been cumbersome, capital-intensive, and illiquid, often reserved for the wealthy. Portfolio managers have long catered to high-net-worth individuals, while everyday investors—especially Gen Z and Millennials—have struggled with high entry costs and long buy-sell cycles. Alt DRX is breaking these barriers, making real estate investment seamless, affordable, and liquid.
With Alt DRX, users can start investing in real estate with just ₹10,000, straight from their mobile devices—no brokers, no paperwork, and no massive capital commitments. The platform enables investments across six major city indexes, allowing users to diversify their portfolios across multiple real estate markets while sitting anywhere in India.
Bringing Liquidity to Real Estate
One of the biggest challenges of traditional real estate investment is its lengthy and complex buy-sell process—often taking months or even years to liquidate a property. Alt DRX cuts short this cycle by providing option to sell their investments in , without the usual hassles of finding buyers, managing paperwork, or dealing with intermediaries.
This level of flexibility and liquidity—previously unheard of in real estate—means that investors can treat real estate more like a financial asset, with safe entry and exit points, making it a far more attractive and manageable investment option.
End-to-End Asset Management for Hassle-Free Investing
Unlike traditional real estate investments where buyers must manage, rent, or sell properties themselves, Alt DRX offers full-scale asset management where users can grow their wealth without the stress of dealing with property logistics.While the stock market has had wealth managers for years, real estate lacked a similar solution—until now. Alt DRX acts as a real estate asset manager for small investors, bridging the gap and making real estate investing as simple as buying stocks.
A Smarter, More Liquid Way to Build Wealth
TimesTech: How is Alt DRX using advanced technologies to streamline the investment process and attract more investors?
Sachin: Real estate has long been an asset class reserved for those with deep pockets and a high tolerance for complexity. Alt DRX is breaking these barriers by leveraging Blockchain and AI to enable Indians to invest in residential real estate—one square foot at a time.
Bringing Transparency with Blockchain
At the core of Alt DRX’s innovation is blockchain technology, which provides an immutable, distributed ledger for the investments done its platform. Investors can verify their holdings in the public domain using the Ripple Blockchain Explorer, ensuring complete transparency and security. Unlike traditional property investments—often plagued by opaque pricing and paperwork
Machine Learning -Powered Real Estate Price Discovery
The real estate market has traditionally suffered from slow, manual valuation processes and delayed price updates. Alt DRX is changing the game with its Machine Learning (ML) models that perform real estate price discovery in real-time.
• Daily Pricing Index: By analysing vast amounts of market data, Alt DRX generates a dynamic real estate price index—providing investors with daily pricing of the held investments
A Future-Ready Approach to Real Estate Investing
By integrating Blockchain for trust and AI for dynamic pricing, Alt DRX is redefining real estate investing as a transparent, liquid, and data-driven asset class. With the power of cutting-edge technology, investors can now buy, track, and trade real estate assets effortlessly—just like stocks.
As India moves toward a more digitally connected financial future, Alt DRX is leading the charge, making real estate investment accessible, secure, and smarter than ever before.
1. Digital Twins
In an industry as vast and multifaceted as real estate, the pace of technological innovation over the last decade has been nothing short of transformative. Staying ahead of the curve now requires the adoption of technologies that not only streamline processes but also enhance decision-making capabilities.
Real estate, as a tangible asset class, has long faced limitations in understanding and optimizing the value of its investments. Historically, the absence of actionable intelligence about real estate assets presented significant challenges for owners and tenants, often leaving them uncertain about the future of their investments. Despite being a globally significant investment category, the industry struggled with inefficiencies in maximizing returns on investments due to a lack of real-time, data-driven insights.
The advent of Digital Twins, powered by advanced technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Machine Learning (ML), and Virtual Reality (VR), has revolutionized real estate as an asset class. This innovation has transformed real estate asset management from a heavy, maintenance-intensive process to a more dynamic and efficient system. Digital Twins provide a virtual replica of physical properties, enabling stakeholders to optimize operations, reduce costs, and elevate tenant experiences.
By creating a dynamic digital mirror of real estate properties, this technology empowers developers, property managers, and investors to unlock unprecedented value. From improving energy efficiency and performing predictive maintenance to enabling immersive virtual tours, the possibilities are vast and impactful. For platforms focused on real estate asset tokenization, integrating Digital Twin solutions can provide unparalleled transparency of asset and bolster investor confidence.
Having personally developed and implemented Digital Twin solutions in my previous roles, I’ve witnessed the tangible impact of this technology. Working with major International Property Consultants (IPCs), I leveraged IoT-powered Digital Twins to revolutionize the management of large retail portfolios. These solutions enabled real-time monitoring and optimization of complex retail environments, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and lease portfolio performance.
The potential of Digital Twins to reshape the real estate landscape is immense, and their adoption is no longer optional but essential for those looking to thrive in a data-driven, technology-first world.
TimesTech: How does Alt DRX leverage blockchain to enable fractional ownership and make real estate more accessible?
Sachin: In the real world, transfer of traditional physical assets (such as land & building) is generally recorded and maintained by a centralised agency, like a Government Registrar for Properties. However, for Digital Real Estate / Tokenisation of Real World Assets, the transfer of Digital Assets / Fractional rights over a property has to be recorded by an impartial, immutable agency. This role is played by storing the custodial ledgers of the Users’ ownership of these fractional ownership rights / Digital Real Estate, using DLT / Blockchain. Once the transfer of the Digital Assets are recorded on Blockchain, the act as a verifiable & immutable record, securing the holder’s rights over fractional ownership of assets.
TimesTech: What is your outlook for India’s real estate sector in 2025, and how is Alt DRX driving this transformation?
Sachin: The Indian real estate sector is poised for significant transformation in 2025, driven by socio-economic shifts and technological advancements.
Luxury housing will continue to be very strong in Tier-1 cities, focusing on high-net-worth individuals seeking exclusive locations and premium amenities. In contrast, growing property prices in metropolitan areas will increase demand for affordable housing in suburban and Tier-2/Tier-3 cities, providing larger spaces and better connectivity. The dual demand structure will open up different opportunities in the market.
On the technology front, AI will revolutionize decision-making for buyers and investors by allowing more intuitive and personalized searches of real property through AI-driven predictive analytics and hyper-personalized insights. It is already gaining precedence in commercial real estate but would trend up in residential spaces as well for better efficiency and user experience.
Blockchain technology will play a central role as it changes the dynamics of real estate transactions with increased transparency and security, reduced fraud cases, and eliminates delays. It will result in an improved reliable ecosystem for both property buyers and sellers.
Smart homes and digitally equipped commercial spaces will define the new norm, catering to the evolving demands of tech-savvy buyers and businesses. These trends, coupled with the dual-market outlook and emphasis on both affordability and luxury, will make the real estate sector resilient, investor-friendly, and a key contributor to India’s economic growth in 2025 and beyond.
