A great deal has already been said about the major transformation the Millennials have caused all over the world, they have changed everything so fast that the society is still adjusting to living cultures not yet fully understood, generating many discussions and conflicting views. But, two things are true about this new changes; on one hand, it is an irrepressible and inexorable reality, on the other hand, there is a noticeable tendency for usability and efficiency. We can say that, in many cases, for a millennial “it is better to share than to possess”.

Due to the emerging necessities caused by society changes, new economic modalities have been introduced to adapt and give solutions to the new necessities; concepts like “Hipster Apartments” or “Apartments for Millennials” are becoming more popular in the real estate industry, coworking spaces for freelancers, digital nomads, startups, and entrepreneurs are increasingly demanded, changing the market with the premise “adapt or disappear”.

Every project should have a detailed structure and definition, every new economic idea requires a two-path approach; one of them should be to find an objective market to which you can meet specific needs, the problem could be the fact that users usually don’t know what they actually want or how they want their needs to be met. Said that there is the second path of an innovative project, it would be to generate a proposal that exceeds all expectations and presents an ideal structure that makes people feel it is specially designed for them, understand them in such a way that every solution seems to be tailored for every user.

BRICKS4US, in this case, has not only developed the needed technology to get adapted to the new generations integrating blockchain technology, smart contracts, and cryptographic tokens, it has as well created a whole culture around this digital universe which has been called Freeliving, a term which describes those already mentioned freelancers, digital nomads, entrepreneurs, independents, and in general the visionary millennials and their further generations. The technological model that Bricks4us presents mainstream the likes and lifestyles chosen by these out of the box thinkers who decided to go for more, a life that integrates work and passions

The numbers that reflect the transition we are going through, allow us to identify the big opportunities this change presents, some significant figures would be:

• In at least two years the coworking spaces demand has grown 25% only in Latin America.
• The great majority of the 163 million of young 15 to 29 years old Latin Americans undertake a business as a solution to the lack of jobs.
• The rental markets of “apartments for millennials” goes over 187 million USD per month in the 9 countries of higher demand in Latin America (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama).
• The millennial generation represents over 44% of the productive power in 2018.
• The 69% of the purchases made in 2017 were made by young and adult millennials.
• The projections confirm that for 2020 will exist an average of 26 thousand coworking spaces and more than 3.8 million people subscribed to them.
• At the end of 2014 existed more than 5.700 coworking spaces all over the world with a turnover of 604 million Euros.

Clearly, as the appropriate mix allows us to create great possibilities, BRICKS4US universe is the opportunity to stand in the future with foundations forged in the present, an opportunity to grow together as a community seeking for the value of cooperation.

Fernando García

Bricks4us Co-founder.

In today’s world, the cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have had continued advances and changes reflected especially in the conception of new decentralized services applications. That is why we see with great pleasure how these technologies have widespread to the energy, publishing, and even cotton industry.

Apart from the popular Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are gaining a position in the virtual world and have high potential to be usable in the construction industry, the cryptocurrencies and their growing value are making landlords, all over the world, accept rent and sale payments in virtual currencies, leading to a boom in real estate trading by these means.

Ventures like Bricks4us will be an initial strategy to higher the usability of blockchain-based services and the number of potential clients internationally, who will find substantial savings in terms of exchange operations for real estate spaces.

All of us involved in the construction business, consider that the consolidation of cryptocurrencies is just a matter of time. We can find crypto transactions for renting and selling building units in several countries, and strong legislation like Miami, New York, Lake Tahoe, Dubai, and Bali, which indicates it is the evolution of this market, and “We accept Cryptocurrencies” signs will be popular in specialized real estate offices.

Juan Angel Arevalo P.

Bricks4us Co-Founder

Not long ago, terms like “Cryptocurrencies”, “Blockchain” and more that are now very popular in the headlines news, media and international conferences discussions, were completely unknown to me.

I used to spend most of my time thinking about innovative ideas which allow me to make the difference in my business (housing development), an increasingly competitive market with many challenges in terms of interesting proposals, to reduce the uncertainty caused by the sharp escalation of lands, materials, supplies and labor prices.

That is when, in a meeting with my partners, an idea came across: offering an innovative scheme which allows us to change our business model to one that could be more identified with the growing trend of renting unified spaces for accommodation and coworking, and that meets the needs of thriving communities as Cryptocurrency traders and users that have come to stay, millennials which represent around the 60% of the productive force on the planet and subcommunities like digital nomads, entrepreneurs, influencers and freelancers.

Following an in-depth study and analysis, we could identify what our region (Latin America) needs, and the fact that it is a challenge for the governments to generate constructions of rental housing hand in hand with solid companies, specialized in the real estate market. Thus, we saw an opportunity coming before us to meet the needs of a community that has not had a solution to their evolving and demanding needs according to the behavior and lifestyle that an increasingly globalized world is undergoing.

Nevertheless, the challenges continued, this real estate infrastructure needed distinguishing elements from all points of view, in order to offer a fundamental change to the traditional space rental model. So, we incorporate technology in every aspect of our idea: design, construction, operation, maintenance, and other processes that integrate a construction company that can be accessible for every stakeholder of the project.

With ideas come concerns too, we needed to solve the product approach, the attainment of spaces, financial resources, and a high workload. Once we evaluated different options from the traditional market like, banks, investors, friends, provision of lands and creating synergies with providers and contractors of the sector, we ended up concluding that through conventional means this project would take too much time to address innovative scenarios for raising resources to develop our idea.

Thanks to a meeting with a friend who had made incursions in the cryptocurrencies world and with a great entrepreneurial spirit, we came up to the idea of investigating and delve into the cryptocurrencies and their application in the business world. All the bounties of these new ways to create and do business helped us to decide to put all our efforts into a real estate token development but, it would not be an ordinary proposal, we wanted to go further and benefit the whole real estate sector in our region boosting it with innovative solutions.

This is how BRICKS4US was born, the first decentralized ecosystem for freeliving and coworking based on blockchain technology and smart contracts to become a revolutionary solution in the Latin American’s lifestyle and with a great potential to be used globally.

In my next article I will tell you why we thought that, with this initiative, we are integrating and supporting the whole real estate market and a neglected community so far. Don’t miss the next post!

Antonio Lozano

Bricks4us Co-Founder.

Created under the vision of experienced Latin American entrepreneurs who have accomplished by 2018, to consolidate BRICKS4US as the first project that promotes a network creation and expansion for the usage of unified spaces, accessible through cryptographic tokens using blockchain technology.

BRICKS4US is a comprehensive technological solution that has dared to merge the real and the digital worlds based on the remarkably changing behavior of the new generations. This ecosystem involves the designing, building, and offering of real estate units for specific purposes as accommodation, coworking, social events, and leisure provided with all the necessary services to stay for different periods of time, all created under an efficient platform to allow easy access to our users with the payment token we have called BRICKEN operating on BRICKS4US Dapp.

Our long-term goal is to have presence in each principal city of Latin America and, why not? In other continents. We aim to include great spaces to our ecosystem and give easy access to our services without needing local currency exchanges or complex rental contracts, with secure transactions in real time, generating an expansion of opportunities to maintain initiatives for entrepreneurship and financial independence for freelancers and digital nomads.

This model has a growing unattended demand, a major turning point where the users require a more mature market but, the providers are lagging behind in several factors. Since millennials, the world has changed, technology is no longer optional, to achieve a successful project we have to maintain an accelerating rate to keep up with our clients changing needs. A combination of client dissatisfaction and limitations of the real estate market have led us to the design of RICKS4US ecosystem, which does not pretend only to change the real estate market, its goal is to transcend major technological levels through blockchain and cryptographic tokens, attending every relevant factor to assure safety and customer satisfaction.

The target is one of the most important factors; their taste, priorities, and lifestyle have inspired BRICK4US team, meeting their needs and providing them with innovative proposals have become the founder’s compass. Even though the definitions are constantly modified, we can establish 3 cultural groups in our target, composed mostly of people born after 1982:

• Freelancers: are people who takes advantage of the IT benefits, improving their careers and talents to work remotely, based on results with short-term contracts. The largest and most recognized freelancer platform at this moment has more than 20 million users which 1.5 million are from Latin America. Since it was launched, this platform has had transactions for more than 2 billion dollars and more than 6 thousand freelance job offers are published every day.

The 74% of this platform freelancers are young “millennials”, known as the digital natives men, and women, ages 18 and 37, who were born during the informatics era and grew up with the digital development.

• Entrepreneurs: young professionals or not professionals who decided to develop ideas and economics projects individually or by building work teams, they execute products and services initiatives trying to forge solid and profitable companies.

Only half of the 163 million young people, ages 15 through 29, have a formal job in Latin America, some of them become entrepreneurs out of necessity, others by opportunity. Entrepreneurship helps them to obtain better incomes and guarantee opportunities at an older age, their economic initiatives are becoming less traditional ,aiming for profitable, and agile methodologies that make it possible for them to work remotely.

• Digital nomads: Young people with desires to travel the world and who organize their life in such a way they can work remotely, just needing an internet connection.

Even though there is not an exact number of people adopting this trend, we can see thousands of testimonies and blogs sharing experiences from precursors of these communities and from new generations of young travelers embracing this lifestyle.

BRICKS4US has a team of influence in Latin America, among the founders, developers, advisors, and partners, we have created a group of professionals who add up years of experience in technological projects, and constructions fields, their great success stories show the business vision they possess and their tendency to conquer new markets, this team is noted by having as a purposed the inclusion of disruptive concepts that give opportunity to people to keep up with innovative developments, braking the barriers of the technological lag.

Fernando García

Brick4us Co-founder.