E-Estate Group: Texas Emergency Cease and Desist Order Over $10 Tokenized Real Estate, June 1, 2026
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Quick Answer
On June 1, 2026 the Texas State Securities Board entered Emergency Cease and Desist Order ENF-26-CDO-1896 against E-Estate Group Inc., which sells “EST Token” interests in properties, from as little as $10, with promised daily payouts of 0.41% to 1.00% for 18 months and then 10% a year. The order finds that the offering is unregistered in Texas and says its Lake House example property in Lakeside, Oregon is one the company and its partner do not own, manage or have any right to income from. It also says the company pays a six percent commission to agents in a multi-level network. The company’s own SEC filing shows the scale: a Form D amendment filed June 12, 2026, eleven days after the order, reports $35,000,000 sold to 12,532 investors out of a $109,440,000 offering that started selling on April 20, 2026. These are the agency’s findings and allegations; we found no court judgment and no public reply from the company. As of November 4, 2026.
Key Takeaways
- The order is a state emergency order, not a court judgment. Texas says the Enforcement Division presented evidence “sufficient for the Deputy Securities Commissioner to find” that the offering is unregistered and fraudulent. A respondent could ask for a hearing before the 31st day after being served; we could not see whether anyone did, so we do not know whether the order is now final.
- The promise: after a minimum of $10, an 18-month “active phase” of daily payments of 0.41% to 1.00%, then a “passive phase” of 10.00% a year paid twice a year. On the Lake House example ($250 minimum, $1.14 a day, $23.94 a month) the active-phase profit works out to $287.28 a year, against $25.00 a year in the passive phase on the same $250 (our arithmetic).
- The Lake House finding is the heart of the fraud allegation: the order says E-Estate and its asset-management partner “do not own or have any management rights” related to the Lake House, and have no right to receive income from it. It also says the claim that EST tokens are backed by physical properties is a misrepresentation.
- The sales network: 6% on a direct sale, 1% to 2% on downline sales, 5% of client profits plus 1% to 2% on downline clients’ profits. The company website featured 8 agents boasting more than $15.8 million of sales and more than $558,000 of commissions, about 3.5% of those sales (our arithmetic).
- The SEC filing: Form D/A of June 12, 2026 reports $35,000,000 sold, 12,532 investors, no non-accredited investors and $0 of sales commissions. The order says the offering is being marketed to non-accredited investors and describes commissions; the filing does not explain the difference. The average per investor is about $2,793 (our arithmetic).
- Date to watch: the order says a sales agent planned to appear at a Dallas event on December 5, 2026. Any money you have sent is not covered by anything we found: no receiver, no claims process and no SEC action appears in the records we read.
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E-Estate Group: Texas emergency order ENF-26-CDO-1896 and SEC Form D figures, 2026
64 rows: promised payouts, commission rates, sales-network figures and findings from the Texas order of June 1, 2026, next to the Form D (April 17, 2026) and Form D/A (June 12, 2026) of E Estate Group Inc. Source and accession or URL on every row.
What the order says E-Estate sells
E-Estate Group Inc. runs a website, e-estate.co, and social media channels that market “tokenized real estate”. The order says an investor must create an account on the E-Estate platform, choose a property, and buy EST Tokens on the Binance blockchain to exchange for purported fractional ownership in it. Texas treats that as the sale of a security. The same logic is why our tokenized real estate census tells readers to read the offering document, not the app: what a token legally gives you depends on the issuer.
| Feature | What the order describes | Order paragraph |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | As little as $10.00 for an initial investment | Finding 6 |
| Active phase | First 18 months; daily payments of 0.41% to 1.00% | Finding 7 |
| Passive phase | Fixed 10.00% a year, paid twice per year | Finding 7 |
| Source of the returns | Rental income and “active occupancy management” of properties in E-Estate’s inventory, run with asset-management partners | Findings 8 and 9 |
| Promised protection | Secure and stable passive income and “capital protection” through legal verification and expert evaluations of the property | Finding 10 |
| Example property | Lake House, Lakeside, Oregon; $250 minimum; average profit $1.14 a day or $23.94 a month | Finding 11 |
| Registration | Company not registered with the Texas Secretary of State; investments not registered with the Securities Commissioner; no permit granted | Finding 2 |
Worked example, our arithmetic. The Lake House figures imply a daily profit of 0.456% of the $250 minimum ($1.14 divided by $250), inside the 0.41% to 1.00% range. Twelve months of $23.94 is $287.28, or 114.9% of the $250. The 10.00% passive rate on the same $250 is $25.00 a year, or $12.50 each half-year. Any return that depends on the promise of rental profit must come from rent actually earned on a property someone owns; that is what the next section is about.
The Lake House finding
The order does not stop at “unregistered”. It makes a specific claim about the example property:
| Statement to investors | What the order says is true | Order paragraph |
|---|---|---|
| The partner company controls property operations at the Lake House | Misrepresented | Finding 22a |
| EST tokens are backed by physical properties | Misrepresented | Finding 22b |
| E-Estate provides legal verification and expert evaluation that guarantee capital protection | Misrepresented | Finding 22c |
| Income comes from the Lake House | E-Estate and its partner “do not have a right to receive any income or profits” from it | Findings 21a and 23a |
| E-Estate or its partner holds the property | They “do not own or have any management rights” related to it | Findings 21b and 23b |
The order says one more thing that matters for anyone who bought a different property: it makes these findings about the Lake House only. It does not say that no E-Estate property is real, and we do not either. What it does say, in finding 25, is that the respondents intentionally fail to disclose “material facts about Respondent E-Estate’s assets, liabilities, capitalization, and financial statements” that would let investors assess its profitability and stability. If you hold a property token, ask for that property’s deed or title record and the lease and bank statements behind your payouts.
The sales network
The order says E-Estate recruits sales agents through a multi-level marketing structure and pays them for their own sales, for their downline’s sales, and for a share of client profits.
| Payment to agents | Rate in the order |
|---|---|
| Deal commission on a direct, personal sale | 6% |
| Deal commission on a downline agent’s sale | 1% to 2%, depending on the downline agent’s level |
| Profit commission on income from the agent’s direct clients | 5% |
| Profit commission on income from downline agents’ clients | 1% to 2%, depending on the level |
The company website, the order says, featured eight agents boasting total agent sales of more than $15.8 million and commissions of more than $558,000. One of them was a Texas resident with more than 800 clients, more than $930,000 of sales and more than $28,900 of commissions. Texas says that agent was not registered as a dealer or agent and that he had been the subject of an earlier Texas emergency order on October 10, 2024 (ENF-24-CDO-1886) that became final; it alleges he is violating it. We do not name individuals.
The order also lists live events: a Houston, Texas stop of a “2026 10-City Real Estate Tokenization Tour” on April 25, 2026, and a similar Dallas event planned for December 5, 2026.
What the SEC filings show
Texas cites one federal filing, a Form D signed April 16, 2026 that claims the Rule 506(c) exemption. We read both filings on EDGAR under CIK 0002129669. Unlike Texas’s order, these are the company’s own statements.
| Field | Form D (filed April 17, 2026) | Form D/A (filed June 12, 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Accession number | 0002129669-26-000001 | 0002129669-26-000002 |
| Exemption | Rule 506(c) | Rule 506(c) |
| Signed | April 16, 2026 | June 11, 2026 |
| Date of first sale | Yet to occur | April 20, 2026 |
| Total offering amount | $109,440,000 | $109,440,000 |
| Total amount sold | $0 | $35,000,000 |
| Total remaining | $109,440,000 | $74,440,000 |
| Investors | 0 | 12,532 |
| Non-accredited investors | None | None |
| Minimum investment | $10 | $10 |
| Sales commissions / finders fees | $0 / $0 | $0 / $0 |
| Securities types ticked | Equity, debt, option, security to be acquired, pooled investment fund, tenant-in-common, mineral property | Same seven |
Our reading, not a finding. The $35 million is 32.0% of the offering and about $2,793 per investor (our arithmetic). Four things do not line up on their face with the order: the filing reports no non-accredited investors and no sales commissions, while the order says the offering is marketed to non-accredited investors and describes commissions to unregistered agents; Rule 506(c) requires every purchaser to be an accredited investor, and a $10 minimum sits oddly with an exemption that requires every purchaser to be verified; the issuer ticked “mineral property” and “tenant-in-common” boxes for an offering described as tokens; and the filing shows no CRD number for the person receiving sales compensation. Each may have an explanation we cannot see. A Form D is a notice the issuer files itself, not a review (see our Form D guide and our 506(b) versus 506(c) census). The June 12 filing, made after the order, did not mention it.
What the record does not show
- Whether the order is final. The notice allowed a hearing request before the 31st day after service; we saw no hearing, settlement or final order, and we did not find the Board’s enforcement listing updated.
- Where the $35 million is. The Form D/A reports $241,900 under gross proceeds used. We found no audited statement, bank record or property title.
- Any other regulator. We found no SEC complaint and no court case. The order shows only Texas acting, though the website sells to “All States” per the Form D.
- Whether you can get money back. No receiver, claims process or bankruptcy appears in the records we read. Its EDGAR record shows only the two Form D filings.
- Reports that the platform collapsed. We saw an unsourced claim online that it stopped operating in October 2026. We could not verify it and do not rely on it.
What a reader can do with this
- Put the identifiers in front of you: order number ENF-26-CDO-1896, CIK 0002129669, and the property or properties you chose. Save your account page, wallet records and every payout screen now, before a website changes.
- Ask the Texas Enforcement Division. The Board’s news release invites anyone who purchased E-Estate Group investments to write to enforceinfo@ssb.texas.gov. The order’s letterhead lists its phone as (512) 305-8300.
- Ask for proof of ownership. For any property token, ask for the recorded deed, the entity that holds title, the lease and the bank statement that paid you. The order’s Lake House finding is the test: does the company have a right to the property’s income?
- Check who sold it to you. The order says its agents were not registered. Look up any seller on the Texas State Securities Board’s searches and on FINRA BrokerCheck, and keep the messages and webinars they sent you.
- Do not send more money to cover “fees” or “unlocks”. The Board’s investor alert lists pressure to invest quickly and promises of passive income as warning signs; a stranger who offers to recover funds for a fee is a separate risk.
- Ask a tax professional about the loss and the year. Whether tokens bought with crypto create a deduction, and when, depends on facts we have not seen; see our page on worthless securities, written for securities, not for this case.
How to test a tokenized real estate offer before you pay
The order is a compact list of checks any reader can run in an afternoon:
- Find the issuer on EDGAR. E-Estate Group’s Form D exists, which proves only that it filed a notice. Compare the investor count and amount sold with what the website says.
- Check the exemption against the marketing. Rule 506(c) is for verified accredited investors; a $10 entry price and open social-media marketing do not fit. The census of Rule 506(b) and 506(c) filings shows what ordinary minimums look like.
- Ask what the token legally is. See the 44 EDGAR filers tied to tokenized real estate for how real issuers describe it, and our Lofty review for another tokenized property platform.
- Be wary of recruiting pay. The order treats commissions for recruiting as a warning sign, as does the Board’s investor alert.
- Look for an owner with a name and a deed. The Lake House finding turns on that.
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Sources, read on November 4, 2026: Texas State Securities Board, Emergency Cease and Desist Order No. ENF-26-CDO-1896 (June 1, 2026, PDF) and news release of June 1, 2026; SEC EDGAR Form D (accession 0002129669-26-000001, filed April 17, 2026) and Form D/A (accession 0002129669-26-000002, filed June 12, 2026) of E Estate Group Inc., CIK 0002129669, and its EDGAR submissions record.
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