CRESTO is a blockchain based platform for issuing real estate backed securities and trading them. CRESTO provides security token offering service to real estate asset owners + security token primary and secondary trading for investors. In this way CRESTO: • boosts liquidity of private real estate investments by creating secondary market; • enhances efficiency of cross-border real estate investments, thus allowing investors to hedge country and cycle risks efficiently. Values for asset owners: • Broader range of investors -> more flexibility and scaling opportunities; • Reaching investors from much more countries with different yield and risk appetites; • Providing liquidity to limited partners without going for IPO -> alternative exit opportunity; • More flexibility on fee structuring; • Alternative way of raising bridge financing for new developments; Values for investors: • Access to core/core+ assets earlier unavailable to retail investors on private RE market; • liquidity on private RE market; • more efficient portfolio diversification and risk hedging; • easier access to booming RE markets; • lower middleman fees; • easy and quick investment process