Think about proudly owning a chunk of a luxurious condominium in Mumbai or a high-yield property in Pune with the identical ease as shopping for a sachet of shampoo or a plate of dosa. This imaginative and prescient of “miniaturizing” wealth was within the highlight on the Mint Cash Competition 2026, held on 14 February in Mumbai.
Avinash Rao, founding father of Alt DRX, a Bangalore-based, blockchain-powered digital actual property market, mentioned the way forward for the Indian dream is not nearly proudly owning a house, however about “tokenizing” it. “I come from the land of the Benne dosa,” Rao mentioned, citing Bangalore’s lightning-fast fast service restaurant tradition as a metaphor for the digital future.
Simply as Darshani’s (famend Bangalore cafe) tokenized the eating expertise for effectivity and entry, Rao believes actual property is subsequent. “The shampoo market wouldn’t have been what it’s right now had it not been for the sachet. Tokenization is nothing however that, the second you miniaturize one thing of worth, you broaden the market.”
For many Indians, actual property is a “powerful” asset class, usually thought-about illiquid, hyper-local, and buried in tedious paperwork. Rao famous that by 2030, real-world asset tokenization will probably be a $16 billion alternative, transferring property from a “locked” bodily asset to a fluid digital one.
“You may sit the place you might be proper now, use that cell phone, and personal a sq. foot anyplace within the nation,” he mentioned, citing international examples like Arrived within the US and Get Stake in Dubai.
Rao sought to decouple the know-how from the hype. “The second I say tokenization, 50% of individuals say, ‘Ah, crypto.’ This isn’t playing; it’s the fractionalization of a recognized asset. It’s the democratization of possession.” By digitizing the asset into “tokens,” traders can bypass the normal complications of property administration like chasing tenants for lease or navigating native legal guidelines and get straight to the capital appreciation.
Why does this should be residential? Whereas business areas are sometimes cited because the gold commonplace, Rao argued that India’s residential market, significantly the ₹75 lakh to ₹1 crore section, gives far larger capital appreciation.
An investor based mostly in Bangalore could not put money into Pune with out considering thrice. But when actual property is accessible at ₹10,000 or one sq. foot, they might be keen to put money into 20 cities, he defined.
As India builds a digital ecosystem of 18 crore demat accounts and 60 crore UPI customers, the pitch is completely set. By tokenization, the excessive partitions of the true property market are lastly being changed by a digital door that may open with a single faucet.
