KDX ST Partners, the Kenedix Group company in charge of real estate digital securities, released survey results on Friday, October 9, covering 7,002 individual full members of its KDX ST app. The survey identified 1,733 holders of real estate digital securities with more than ten years of experience investing in stocks.

The release was timed to Securities Investment Day, a designation established by the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA). The annual observance falls on October 4, a date derived from Japanese wordplay in which the numerals 10 and 4 can be read as to and shi, echoing the Japanese word for investment. The JSDA serves as the self-regulatory organization for Japan's securities industry.

Kenedix Group is a Tokyo-based real estate asset management group and one of Japan's largest independent managers of real estate funds, with activities spanning office, residential, retail, and logistics properties. Through KDX ST Partners, the group operates in Japan's digital securities market, which lets individuals invest small amounts in specific real estate assets through smartphone platforms such as the KDX ST app.

Real estate digital securities, commonly known as real estate security tokens, are structured in Japan as electronically recorded transferable rights under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, a classification introduced in a 2020 revision of the law. Because interests in individual properties can be divided into small units, the instruments are widely used to lower the entry barrier to real estate investing, which has traditionally required substantial capital.

The survey results offer a profile of the individual investors active on such platforms, including respondents identified as having more than a decade of stock market experience, and add to the available data on how Japanese individuals use digital securities to access real estate assets. The 1,733 investors with ten or more years of experience in stocks make up roughly one in four of the members surveyed, a detail that adds nuance to the framing of digital securities as an entry point into real estate investing: although the instruments are structured to divide property interests into small units and lower capital barriers, the data show that many members of the platform combine token holdings with long experience in traditional equities. Because the results reflect a single snapshot of one platform's full membership at a point in time, follow-up releases from KDX ST Partners would be needed to show how, or whether, this investor profile changes.

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