Smart Contracts Applications in Real Estate: A Systematic Mapping Study

Abstract

Recently, smart contracts have emerged as an architectural style for contract design, dealing with how to build and execute transactions. The smart contract provides immutability and integrity of data with no intervention from a trusted third party. Though there have been general researches conducted on smart contracts, however, there is a lack of scientific publications regarding the current research challenges on the use of smart contracts in real estate. This study examines literature focused on the use of smart contracts in real estate while providing a conceptual classification. Based on our conceptual classification. We conducted a systematic mapping study of 68 selected published works on literature released between 2017 and 2021. We sorted and analyzed the selected studies based on a characterization framework. We summarize existing issues, as well as identify gaps, that are available in the literature.