Real estate: ownership, access, liquidity, settlement, transparency, records.
- $393.3T the value of global real estate, the largest asset class Savills, 2024
- 7–8% France: notary fees on a property purchase notaires.fr / Service-Public.fr, 2025
- ~$2.5B BlackRock's tokenized fund, BUIDL RWA.xyz, 2026
- >$3T JPMorgan Kinexys settled volume J.P. Morgan / Kinexys, 2025
- >$30B tokenized real-world assets, excluding stablecoins RWA.xyz, mid-2026
- ~$15B of which tokenized US Treasuries RWA.xyz, mid-2026
- ~$70M tokenized real estate, about 0.2% of the total RWA.xyz, mid-2026
- $4T projected tokenized real estate by 2035 Deloitte, 2025
DeReal is a technology project examining how real estate ownership is recorded, transferred and accessed worldwide.
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The DeReal Platform: Real World Assets made simple
Real world assets are tangible, income-producing assets that exist outside financial markets: buildings, land, infrastructure. Tokenization is the practice of representing ownership of those assets as digital records held within a regulated legal structure.
What we cover
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Tokenization of real-world assets
How ownership of tangible assets can be represented and transferred using digital records.
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Access to real estate
The barriers to participating in real estate, and the models that aim to lower them.
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Transparency and settlement
How distributed ledgers change record-keeping, settlement, and reporting.
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Regulation and protection
The European rules that frame these markets and the protections they set out.