Real Estate Tokenization — Global Outlook 2026
Real estate, on-chain. State of the global market: size, players, infrastructure, trajectory to 2030
— Alessandro Negri della Torre
Real estate tokenization has moved beyond experimental into the institutional-infrastructure phase. It remains tiny vs global RE (~$393T, Savills 2025) but grows at double-to-triple-digit rates. The report distinguishes retail tokenization from institutional wrapping, maps eight jurisdictions with comparative regulatory analysis, identifies infrastructure bottlenecks and trajectories 2026–2030.
Key takeaways
- Two markets, not one: retail vs institutional wrapping
- The 2025–26 turning point is regulatory, not technological
- Secondary-market liquidity remains the main bottleneck
- Multi-chain is the de facto standard
- The tokenized-fund template is battle-tested; RE replication expected 2026–27
- Dubai DLD × VARA is the sovereign tokenization case — civil-law jurisdictions do not replicate it easily