World Property Bank Targets Multi-Trillion Dollar Real Estate Tokenization Opportunity

Miami-based World Property Ventures, a global property technology holding company, said this week it will launch a new SEC-regulated digital investment bank designed to transform real estate capital markets worldwide. The new venture, World Property Bank, is scheduled to debut in 2026, aiming to bring institutional rigor, standards and liquidity to the rapidly growing market for tokenized real estate.

"Our mission is to build the digital infrastructure that powers the capital and investment markets of tomorrow's AI-driven property economy," said Michael Gerrity, founder and chief executive of World Property Ventures. "This isn't an incremental evolution -- it's a restructuring of the global real estate economy itself."

Industry projections underscore the scale of the opportunity. Analysts expect the global market for tokenized real estate to reach $3 trillion by 2030, up from just $120 billion in 2023 -- a compound annual growth rate of nearly 50%. Deloitte estimates that real estate debt alone could account for $2.39 trillion in tokenized loans and securitizations by 2035, pushing the combined market across equity and debt close to $6 trillion.

Gerrity further commented, "Just as Lou Ranieri pioneered the mortgage-backed security (MBS) at Salomon Brothers in the late 1970s, we view tokenized real estate products in the same light -- as the next wave of financial innovation in global capital markets. Essentially, replace the word 'securitization' with 'tokenization,' and you have the same principle expressed through a different means."

Once operational, World Property Bank plans to roll out three integrated business units aimed at reshaping global capital markets.

World Property Securities will structure and originate tokenized real estate debt, equity, credit, and derivative investment products for both institutional and retail investors. Its sister platform, World Property Exchange, will serve as the bank's proprietary trading venue, using AI-driven matching engines to issue and trade real estate tokens globally, offering low-latency execution in deep, transparent, and liquid markets.

Rounding out the trio, Real Estate Predictions will provide a decentralized "Event Contracts" marketplace for hedging and speculating on real-world real estate outcomes such as weekly and monthly home prices, housing starts, sales velocities, cap rates, and mortgage rate movements--effectively turning market trends into tradable assets.

The bank's prediction market will be regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and will provide new tools for institutional hedging, algorithmic governance, and probabilistic forecasting. The defi predictions sector is forecast to surpass $100 billion in market size by early 2026, propelled by growing demand for data-driven speculation and real-time consensus pricing.

If successful, World Property Bank could become the 'Goldman Sachs' of tokenized real estate, bridging traditional finance and decentralized markets under a regulated framework. Its mission: democratize access to the $654 trillion global property market, from multi-billion-dollar portfolio and ETF allocations down to $1,000 fractional slices of individual properties, unlocking the world's largest, most illiquid and historically most inaccessible asset class for the masses: Real Estate.

"In times of disruption, fortunes are made and lost -- often at the expense of entrenched incumbents," Gerrity said. "The real estate capital markets industry is entering such a moment, and World Property Bank is being engineered to lead in this new tokenized real estate world."