Dubai-based real estate investment platform Tribe Tokenisation has partnered with digital asset ecosystem TheBlock to bring tokenised property investment to traditional real estate brokers, as Dubai moves from experimenting with property tokenisation to building a functioning market around it.
The partnership, announced on August 27, will combine Tribe’s regulated virtual asset infrastructure with TheBlock’s broker network, training capabilities and physical presence in Dubai. The companies plan to launch a broker platform in September, initially targeting traditional real estate brokerages, private wealth managers and institutional networks.
The goal is to give eligible clients access to fractional property investment opportunities through conventional property professionals rather than requiring them to enter the digital asset ecosystem independently.
Tribe says investors can allocate from AED 2,000 across selected properties, receiving a defined position with governance rights and access to rental income and a secondary marketplace, subject to the structure of each investment and market conditions. The company’s platform is built around a portfolio approach, allowing investors to spread exposure across multiple properties rather than committing capital to a single asset.
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Tribe Tokenisation FZE is authorised by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for broker-dealer services under licence number VL/26/06/002. VARA’s public register lists the licence as active and states that the company is permitted to serve institutional, qualified and retail investors.
Under the new partnership, TheBlock will handle broker onboarding, in-person training and event activations designed to help traditional property professionals understand how tokenised real estate works and how they can introduce eligible clients to the opportunities available through Tribe.
The move addresses one of the biggest challenges facing real-world asset tokenisation: distribution.
Turning a building into digital tokens is only one part of the process. For tokenised assets to reach a broader investor base, companies also need established channels through which investors already buy and sell assets. Real estate brokers, wealth managers and other intermediaries could provide that bridge between blockchain-based investment products and the traditional property market.
“Tokenization infrastructure is only one part of the equation. For real-world assets to scale, you also need education, distribution, and access to the traditional industries that already understand and sell these assets,” said Farbod Sadeghian, founder of TheBlock.
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Alastair Sherriffs, co-founder of Tribe Tokenisation, said the partnership would provide the physical presence and distribution capabilities needed to bring tokenised property opportunities to traditional brokers and their investors.
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The partnership comes as Dubai itself pushes deeper into real estate tokenisation. In March 2025, the Dubai Land Department’s Real Estate Tokenisation Project entered its pilot phase, making the department the first real estate registration authority in the Middle East to implement tokenisation on property title deeds.
DLD said the initiative could grow to an estimated AED 60 billion in market value by 2033, equivalent to 7% of Dubai’s total real estate transactions.
Dubai has since moved beyond the initial pilot. In February 2026, DLD launched Phase II of the programme, enabling secondary-market resale of tokenised properties. The department described the move as a transition from the pilot stage towards a more operational model, while continuing to assess market efficiency, investor protection and regulatory readiness.
That development is significant for companies such as Tribe because liquidity has long been one of the challenges associated with property investment. Traditional real estate can take considerable time and transaction costs to buy or sell, while tokenisation aims to create smaller, digitally represented positions that can potentially be transferred through regulated secondary markets.
The opportunity is not limited to Dubai. Deloitte estimates that the global value of tokenised real estate could reach US$4 trillion by 2035, up from less than US$300 billion in 2024, representing a projected compound annual growth rate of 27%.
For Dubai, the Tribe-TheBlock partnership represents another attempt to connect two markets that have largely operated separately: traditional property and digital assets. If the broker model gains traction, the next phase of real estate tokenisation may be less about convincing investors that blockchain works and more about giving them familiar routes into the market.
The Tribe-TheBlock platform is expected to go live in September, with broker onboarding forming the first phase. The companies said further details on training schedules and platform access will be announced ahead of the launch.
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