Targeting 22-32% Returns By Blending Cash-Flowing Properties And BTC

Finance News — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:11:54 +0000

Real estate investor Grant Cardone is positioning his Cardone Capital to challenge the traditional real estate investment trust (REIT) sector by integrating Bitcoin directly into large-scale multifamily deals. With roughly $5 billion in real estate assets under management across about 15,000 units, Cardone claims the hybrid approach can deliver superior returns while onboarding new investors to Bitcoin.

In a recent interview at Consensus 2026, Cardone laid out his strategy for disrupting the multi-trillion dollar Realestate Investment Trust sector, also known as REITs, companies that own, operate, or finance income-producing real estate. Established under U.S. law in 1960, they must distribute at least 90% of taxable income as dividends to shareholders, providing investors with liquidity and yields without direct property ownership. According to Cardone, publicly traded REITs and the broader industry control over $4.3–4.5 trillion in U.S. real estate assets.

Cardone highlighted a key structural constraint during his Consensus Miami 2026 appearance: traditional REITs like Camden, AvalonBay, and others “can never ever hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet.” This limitation, rooted in the industry’s 1960s-era rules focused on real estate assets and income, creates what he calls a “glitch” in the market, a competitive opening.

Cardone’s Bitcoin Origin and Hybrid Strategy
Cardone first encountered Bitcoin when he was paid 115 BTC for a speaking engagement in Las Vegas, which he still holds. He has since evolved this into a hybrid model at Cardone Capital. Rather than tokenizing real estate on the blockchain, the firm acquires institutional-quality, cash-flow-positive multifamily properties at significant discounts and pairs them with Bitcoin inside a dedicated LLC.

In one prominent example, Cardone Capital purchased a 366-unit property at 101 Via Mizner in Boca Raton from a Blackstone-related lender for $235 million in cash. The property, described as irreplaceable and valued at approximately $400 million replacement cost, was combined with about $100 million in Bitcoin, creating a total ~$335 million investment vehicle.

Replacement cost refers to the expense of building a comparable property today. Cardone targets assets trading at significant discounts to this benchmark. Instead of simply capturing the real estate discount, the firm allocates Bitcoin to “stuff it into the discount gap” and move the overall cost basis of the property higher. In the Boca deal, Cardone says this structure generated a $50 million tax write-off.

Commercial real estate of this sort should provide stable cash flow. Cardone suggests the Boca property is expected to return 4% per year, alongside depreciation benefits, and periodic refinancing opportunities every 7–10 years. Bitcoin adds upside potential and liquidity characteristics. He stated, “We believe by combining real estate and Bitcoin and having time… I’ll end up with somewhere between…

Home sellers are re-listing properties at the fastest pace in a decade

Finance News — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:36:20 +0000

A “For Sale” sign outside a house in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025.

Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images

The all-important spring housing market is off and running, and while the pace isn’t expected to be strong, there are signs of optimism, at least among sellers. Some who gave up last year are jumping back in.

Nearly 45,000 homes that were delisted last year were relisted for sale in January, according to Redfin, a real estate brokerage. That is the highest January figure since Redfin began tracking this metric a decade ago and represents a record 3.6% of homes that were on the market in January.

The January figures come as Redfin reported a record number of sellers pulling their homes off the market last September. Close to 85,000 sellers delisted, up 28% from September 2024. Higher mortgage rates last year, still-high home prices and growing uncertainty in the economy sidelined buyers last fall, taking sellers out of the driver’s seat, where they had been in the years during and just after the pandemic.

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Ashley Rummage, a real estate agent in Raleigh, North Carolina, in response to CNBC’s fourth-quarter Housing Market Survey, said in December that more sellers were being asked for concessions, and some just refused.

“A lot of sellers I’ve encountered and worked with have just thrown their hands up in the air and said, ‘If we can’t get what we want for our house right now, or what we think is it’s worth, then we’re gonna go ahead and take it off to market and try again, maybe in the spring,'” Rummage said.

The overall inventory of homes for sale nationally is higher than it was a year ago, but the gains are plateauing, according to Realtor.com. Active listings were up 7.9% in February, year-over-year, but that number has been shrinking for nine straight months. Listings are still down 17% from 2019, pre-pandemic.

“Inventory has improved for more than two years, but the momentum has faltered in recent months,” said Danielle Hale, chief economist, Realtor.com. “Supply gains have been concentrated in the South and West and skewed toward homes priced below $500,000. While the Northeast and Midwest have seen growth, they remain significantly undersupplied.”

With rates now hovering near four-year lows, Hale said, a key question is whether this “thaw” spurs more buyers or more sellers. Mortgage rates have climbed slightly higher in recent days, due to the ongoing war with Iran and renewed fears over inflation.

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