Hopes For Real Estate Tokenization To Become New Digital Asset Investment Theme For 2026
Few mere mortals know what it means. But the real estate investment trust of old is going digital. Tokenized real estate – long touted but slow to materialize – is gaining real traction, pushed ahead by Wall Street rather than by the usual blockchain bros.
Tokenized real estate means taking a real property — like a rental home, apartment building, or commercial property — and turning ownership shares of that property into digital tokens on a blockchain. In an ideal world, it would allow an American investor to speculate on Singapore real estate in the digital realm.
Major traditional finance firms are publicly embracing the idea.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said on CNBC recently that, “we’re at the beginning of the tokenization of all assets like real estate.”
Regulators seem to be moving in favor of tokenization. U.S. legislation – namely the GENIUS Act – is clearing legal paths for blockchain based transactions and even the Nasdaq has applied to let institutional traders settle securities on a blockchain by 2026.
An older 2023 study by a McKinney, Texas-headquartered blockchain IT solutions company called ScienceSoft Finance said some 80% of high-net-worth and two-thirds of institutional investors surveyed were looking at tokenized assets, with real estate frequently cited as a target.
For years, tokenized real estate struggled because most projects tried to sell investors fractional ownership of physical property. No one wanted that, said Artem Tolkachev, Chief Real World Assets Officer for …
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