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Wincity, real estate investment made easy and revisited thanks to NFTs

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Real estate investment is not within the reach of everyone. High prices and complicated management make this type of investment an activity reserved for the wealthy. Find out how Wincity is making real estate investment accessible with non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

Wincity, a real estate investment platform

If you’ve ever been curious about the safest type of investment, you’ve probably come across people telling you that real estate is the best choice. However, you are quickly confronted with the harsh reality that prices are very high.

This is why the Wincity platform offers to split these investments into non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This method breaks down the price barrier by pooling user funds to buy an asset, allowing anyone to invest in the sector, while starting to receive a regular annuity.

Wincity wants to facilitate users’ access to the world of real estate by offering the possibility of participating in the acquisition of a property by purchasing an NFT.

To do this, the Wincity team will search for different properties in major French cities and then put a collection of NFTs on sale to finance the acquisition. After the property is acquired, users holding an NFT will own a share of the property, which allows them to get a share of the rent every 11th of the month.

What makes the project so special is that these NFTs can be purchased with Ethers (ETH), but also by credit card. The annuity is then paid to the owners of these NFTs in ETH. The annual return obviously depends on the price of the property and the rent, but it is generally estimated to be around 7% per year.

The features of Wincity NFTs

Wincity’s property-related NFTs have different levels of rarity. The 1111 NFTs in a classic collection are distributed as follows:

  • 1000 Regular quality cards;
  • 100 “Rare” NFTs;
  • 10 more “Mythics” quality;
  • The last one is a “Unique” rarity.

Thus, the rarer an NFT is, the higher its price will be. Owning a card with a high rarity level will offer various advantages in the future Wincity game, in addition to a more interesting remuneration.

Moreover, owning a Wincity NFT will give you automatic access to the whitelists of future collections, as well as an entry fee to the parties organised by the platform.

For the first good, Wincity has also sent a physical card representing the NFT to all its holders. Perhaps the community will also get this surprise when the next property is sold

Governance in the hands of NFT holders

Owning an NFT from a Wincity collection allows you to take part in the votes organised by the platform.

This governance will be more important in 2023, as the Wincity team plans to extend the decentralisation of the platform to give more room to the choices of its users

A successful first sale

The first collection of Wincity NFTs was released in January 2022, and its 1111 units sold out quickly. This successful premiere shows the community’s interest in the project as well as real estate investment in general.

Located in the French capital, the Paris Grande Chaumière property now allows owners of NFTs in this collection to receive a share of the rent in ETH every 11th of the month. With the regular earnings and the increase in value of the property, the annual return is estimated at 8%.

NFT Wincity of Regular rarity from the Paris Grande Chaumière collection

NFT Wincity of Regular rarity from the Paris Grande Chaumière collection


One of the main advantages of this investment is that the value of these NFTs is based on the value of the property. With the sharp declines that the cryptocurrency world is facing right now, owners of Wincity NFTs are still left with an asset that has retained its value.

Exemplary management during an unexpected event

With a promising start, it was natural to expect the same level of success from Wincity’s second sale. However, the second “Lille Liberté” collection had to be terminated despite a very good start.

Indeed, the tenant of the commercial property that the investors had in mind decided to use his right of pre-emption. In short, the tenant had priority among the various buyers, which put Wincity out of the running to acquire the property.

But the project team got back on track and consulted the community to decide what to do with the funds already raised from the sale. Owners of the NFTs in the collection had 3 choices:

  • Get a full refund of their investment;
  • Wait for the 4 month right of first refusal period and hope that the sale is not made to the tenant;
  • Not being reimbursed for the amount invested to fund the next collection.

After a governance vote, the final decision of the community was to get a full refund which will be made in mid-July. The good thing is that the investment has been secured in euros, so the amount refunded will have the same value as the amount invested.

An advantage for those who bought the NFTs with ETH, as after the recent fall in the cryptocurrency’s price, they will get back the fiat currency value of their investment, not the ETH value.

The economics of Wincity

When it comes to real estate investment, the first point of interest to users is the potential gains. For those who would like to invest in a Wincity asset, the first remuneration is a monthly annuity of part of the rent, which will be received in ETH.

It is also possible that one of the NFTs will increase in value. Indeed, as each of the tokens represents a share of a real estate, they are all backed by the value of a real estate.

Wincity offers 3 incentives to NFT holders, corresponding to 3 sources of income:

  • Win Cash: the share of the rent paid monthly;
  • Win Capital: the capitalisation resulting from the bank leverage effect linked to the repayment of the property loan. It is added monthly to the value of the NFT;
  • Win Plus-Value: the increase in value of the property, estimated annually.

However, the condition of acquisition of an asset requires that all NFTs in a collection be sold. If this condition is not met, investors will still be reimbursed by Wincity, and will be able to invest again in a future collection

The future of the Wincity platform

One of Wincity’s primary ambitions is to develop a new dimension to the project through gamification. For the moment, the developers are keeping the game a mystery, but the release of this future life-size Simcity is hoped for 2023.

On the same theme, the team behind the project wants to create its own metaverse. Investors who participated in the first sales will get benefits when this new world is released. The rarity of the NFT will also have an impact on these benefits, which allows to reward users who support Wincity the most.

Among the future collections of NFTs, note that Wincity is preparing a new real estate investment that will be revealed in the summer of 2022. A special feature of this one is that the community will then have the opportunity to vote on whether this future collection will be offered on the Ethereum or Polygon blockchain.

Finally, a special “History” collection will go on sale on 13 July 2022. This collection will not be linked to any real estate, but will nevertheless allow French culture to shine through 3333 collectible cards, divided according to the 4 levels of rarity of the platform.

NFT Wincity of the Arc de Triomphe (regular)

NFT Wincity of the Arc de Triomphe (regular)


NFT Wincity of the Eiffel Tower (rare)

NFT Wincity of the Eiffel Tower (rare)


These new assets offer governance rights over several areas such as the choice of the future city for new collections, but they will also have an important role in the future Wincity game. Owning one of the History collection assets also provides access to the various Wincity events.

Obtaining one of these cards will be done randomly by opening a “chest” that everyone will be able to buy at 99 euros or the equivalent in ETH. For users who own NFTs from other Wincity collections, the platform will distribute between 1 and 4 chests depending on the rarity of the cards owned by the users.

Our opinion on the Wincity platform

Wincity allows to link the real estate investment field to NFTs in a simple way. The platform democratises the market by making it more liquid, through the division of a property into many units.

This platform allows anyone to take their first steps into property investment, starting from a relatively small amount.

Wincity also draws its strength from its decentralised governance, which is entirely managed by the NFT holders. This has proven to work well in the case of the failed second property sale, where the Wincity community decided on its own which direction to take.

Wincity’s transparency and accessibility could allow it to become a reference in the field of blockchain-based real estate investment.

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