Buying Homes with Bitcoin? Christie’s is Giving it a Go

You know things are getting strange when the same auction house that sells Picassos is now flogging houses for crypto. Christie’s has launched a billion-dollar real estate division in California where you can pay for your mansion with digital coins. No Monopoly money here –actual crypto, signed off by lawyers and regulators. And thanks to new US laws, it might just work.

For those of us in the UK, it raises an awkward question: is this the future of property, or just another shiny gimmick we’ll laugh about in a few years? Let’s take a look.