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World Property Ventures Raising Capital to Digitize the Global Real Estate Economy
World Property Ventures (WPV), a Miami-based global real estate venture lab and holding company, is preparing to launch a $200 million funding round aimed at transforming the global property sector. The capital raise will target accredited investors, family offices, and strategic corporate partners, supporting the company's ambitious plan to streamline and digitize the world's largest asset class highly leveraging AI, data, automation, tokenization and scale.
Founded in 2024 by veteran real estate entrepreneur Michael Gerrity, WPV is positioning itself as a full-stack ideation-to-exit development platform that funds, builds, owns and operates multiple digital marketplaces, search engines, token exchanges, and information ecosystem to tackle a sector long plagued by inefficiency, fragmentation, and opacity.
"Real estate remains the world's largest yet most archaic industry," Gerrity said in a recent interview, citing $500 billion in annual customer acquisition costs paid by sellers worldwide. "One of our goals is to significantly reduce transaction costs, increase transparency, and unlock liquidity on a global scale."
A Dual Value-Creation Strategy
WPV is employing a dual "value-creation" strategy. On one front, it internally incubates and scales PropTech companies designed to address significant market inefficiencies and analog friction across the $654 trillion global real estate value chain.
On the other hand, it will soon structure digital investment products -- tokenized real estate debt, equity, credit and derivatives -- issued and traded on its proprietary token exchange, WPE.com, broadening global investor access to high-quality digital real estate assets and unlocking liquidity across markets.
Revenue streams for WPV are diverse, including profits from portfolio companies, equity appreciation, tokenization spreads, dividends from public holdings, and gains from asset exits. Analysts say this multi-channel strategy could allow WPV to capture value across several facets of the property market simultaneously.
Digital Platforms at the Core
WPV's marketplace arm, World Property Markets, operates Global Listings, a global property shopping platform hosting over 3+ million active listings in 112 countries, and growing. The site is already the world's largest international property listings marketplace, connecting buyers, sellers, investors, tenants, landlords, developers and agents.
Its emerging companion platform, World Property Search, will leverage AI to index and map over 10 million real estate listing websites worldwide of all categories, supporting natural language queries in any language, and dramatically accelerate property discovery. "We're effectively building the future Google of real estate search," Gerrity said, highlighting the platform's potential to reduce tens of billions in annual customer acquisition costs for property sellers worldwide.
Expanding Information and Media Reach
Through World Property Media, WPV operates a top-ranked international real estate news site, WPC.tv -- an emerging global real estate streaming platform -- and Property Signals, an emerging enterprise-grade platform delivering real-time market data, actionable signals intelligence, and insights to property investors and professionals worldwide, what Gerrity calls the future 'Bloomberg Terminal' of real estate."
Tokenization and Digital Investing
WPV's emerging, SEC-regulated World Property Bank will structure tokenized investment products for issuance and trading on the World Property Exchange, alongside Real Estate Predictions, a DeFi-style prediction market. Together, these platforms are designed to democratize global access to institutional-grade real estate investments for the masses, while unlocking efficiency and global liquidity.
Targeting Government and Fraud Prevention
WPV is also developing blockchain-based property title systems and anti-money laundering solutions for governments worldwide, aimed at curbing an estimated $700 billion in illicit funds flowing through global real estate annually. In addition, digital twins and geospatial data tools are under development.
A Veteran's Vision
While still in college at UCF, Gerrity began his real estate career in the mid-1980s with Cushman & Wakefield after writing a letter to a young Donald Trump following a CBS 60 Minutes appearance. Trump personally responded weeks later, helping Gerrity land his first job at C&W. Today, he sees AI, data, and disruptive "0-to-1" first-principles thinking as transformative forces urgently needed in an industry still dominated by analog processes. Some analysts suggest that WPV's tokenization platforms and business models could reshape traditional real estate capital markets over the next decade, drawing parallels to the automation of Wall Street stock trading in the 1990s.
The upcoming $200 million raise will support the expansion of WPV's operational platforms and building of multiple startups in its development pipeline. Gerrity calls WPV the anti-VC, saying, "We're not just investing in companies--we're building them."
Reinventing a Massive Market
WPV's diversified portfolio across digital marketplaces, media, data, investment, and government technology positions it at the forefront of what Gerrity describes as "the next frontier of the AI revolution -- real estate." He envisions WPV evolving over the coming decade into the future 'Goldman Sachs' of the world's emerging digital real estate economy.
As investors increasingly seek exposure to real estate's AI transformation, WPV's launch represents a bold bet on an industry ripe for disruption -- and a potential roadmap for digitizing the world's largest and most archaic asset class: Real Estate.
