Industry Pain Points

Illiquidity

The global real estate market remains inherently illiquid, with property transactions often taking months to finalize. Capital is locked in large, indivisible assets, limiting flexibility for investors and severely restricting participation from smaller retail players. Traditional fractional ownership models, such as REITs, provide partial solutions but lack the agility, transparency, and direct ownership that modern investors demand. This illiquidity stifles secondary market activity and makes rapid capital redeployment nearly impossible.

Regulatory & Compliance Complexity

Real estate is one of the most heavily regulated asset classes, with requirements that vary widely across jurisdictions. Transactions require KYC, AML, and detailed legal verifications, including title checks, permits, and tax compliance, often in person. These processes remain manual, slow, and expensive, particularly in cross-border scenarios where regulatory regimes differ. For global investors, navigating this fragmented compliance landscape creates substantial friction, drives up legal costs, and discourages cross-border capital flows.

Fragmented Property Data & Fraud Vulnerabilities

Property information is siloed across registries, brokers, and private databases. This fragmentation makes it difficult to perform accurate due diligence and creates opportunities for fraud through misrepresentation, double pledging, or document forgery. Verification processes are labor-intensive, error-prone, and slow, eroding trust between market participants. The lack of a unified, transparent, and tamper-proof data infrastructure prevents the creation of a truly trusted global marketplace.

High Intermediary & Transaction Costs

Traditional transactions involve numerous intermediaries: brokers, escrow agents, lawyers, title companies, and banks, each adding cost and delay. While some intermediaries (e.g., high-value brokers or valuation agents) add market expertise and liquidity, others, such as transfer agents or loan agents, exist purely due to outdated processes. Paper-based workflows and redundant document handling further inflate costs, while adding operational risk and slowing deal execution.

Poor User & Developer Experience

Existing blockchain-based real estate solutions often impose high technical barriers on both users and developers. Non-technical investors face complicated wallet setups, unintuitive interfaces, and opaque transaction processes. Developers must navigate fragmented toolsets, inconsistent APIs, and limited composability, making innovation costly and slow. This limits adoption and prevents the creation of vibrant, application-rich ecosystems.