Own a piece of real estate – with just a few clicks? Not quite. Most tokenized “ownership” structures offer economic rights – not legal property. And the difference matters. In Europe and much of the West, legal ownership of real estate is still tied to centralized land registries.
🧾 Title deeds and their transfers must be notarized, registered, and handled offline.
🔗 So what do real estate tokens actually represent?
Often: Revenue shares, royalty streams, or indirect participations in special purpose vehicles (SPVs).
Rarely: True legal ownership – meaning formally registered property rights over land (e.g. freehold title or the civil-law equivalent of registered real property ownership with full disposal rights). This creates a growing mismatch between investor expectations and legal reality – especially when marketing talks of “fractional ownership”.
But the world is shifting. Slowly, and unevenly.
🔹 In Colombia (2022), a government pilot placed land records on Ripple – later halted with a new administration.
🔹 In Brazil (2023), several states began anchoring real estate registries on-chain, with tokenized titles now accepted in select jurisdictions.
🔹 In India (2024), the Dantewada district moved over 65,000 land records to Avalanche’s public blockchain – officially endorsed.
🔹 In Dubai (2025), title deeds are now tokenized on XRPL under a landmark agreement with the Land Department.
These examples show what’s technically and regulatory possible – when there’s political clarity and executive alignment. Meanwhile, in the West, land ownership remains legally entangled in analog structures, requiring high legal certainty, institutional trust, and centuries-old formalities. That’s not necessarily wrong – but it slows down innovation, especially when compared to agile experiments in emerging regions or centralized decision-making hubs.
📌 Key takeaway:
Tokens ≠ property – unless the law explicitly says so.
So let’s stop pretending they’re the same. And instead ask:
👉 What should real estate #tokenization stand for in Berlin, Dantewada, Dubai, Rio – or Zurich?
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