Dubai to sell 7.8 million real estate tokens on secondary market
Dubai Land Department (DLD), governmental department for real estate in the UAE, has moved forward with its tokenization initiative by launching the secondary market starting February 20th 2026 which will allow the resale of approximately 7.8 million real estate tokens, within a controlled pilot framework aimed at assessing market efficiency, testing operational readiness, enhancing transparency and governance, and safeguarding investors’ rights while ensuring transaction integrity.
This is considered to be phase II of the Real Estate Tokenization Project, within a regulated model. It follows the first stage where DLD launched the Real Estate Innovation Initiative with Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and strategic partners. During the pilot phase, the regulatory, legislative, and technical frameworks for real estate tokenization on title deeds were tested. DLD emphasized in their announcement that tokenized assets would represent up to 7% of Dubai’s real estate market by 2033 equivalent to $16 billion and that Prypco Mint will be at the cornerstone of this transformation.
In May 2025, after the launch of PRYPCO Mint, the first licensed real estate tokenization platform, in partnership with Dubai Land Department, Dubai’s Regulatory Authority, and powered by Ctrl Alt blockchain, the region’s first property token ownership certificate was issued.
By July 2025, PRYPCO Mint, MENA’s first real estate tokenization platform, in the funding of its latest Park Ridge Tower C, located in Dubai Hills valued at $653,000 attracted the highest number of investors totally 326, for a single property with an average investment of $2000. The Park Ridge Tower C offered investors an estimated 14.39% instant appreciation, funded by 326 investors from 51 nationalities. Almost 50% of those investors were returning ones.
In this recent press release, DLD noted that this phase is a preparatory one, giving regulatory authorities the data need to make future decisions grounded in operational data. This approach strengthens confidence of local and international investors.
DLD will continue to work with VARA and add additional platforms in the future. Already for example, UAE based Stake, a digital real estate investment platform, that offers fractional investment, investment in real estate funds, has received an in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, under the name Stake RWA.
In a recent RWA.XYZ analysis a leading data platform for tokenized RWAs, has published its recent tokenization data analysis, where it has added a new asset class which is tokenized real estate, with UAE leading in the number of tokenized real estate while the USA leads in terms of the value of tokenized real estate assets.
