[ahnick]

The purpose of having property deeds represented as NFTs on a blockchain is not to eliminate the need for a governing body, but to make the ownership transparent, trivially verifiable, and easy to transfer. I've outlined this many times in this thread at this point. In the event, that a valid copy of off-chain data could not be recovered, then the governing body could use a longer and more manual process to identify the rightful owner and mint a new NFT.

[JohnFen]

Perhaps the difficulty is that how deeds are handled right now already makes ownership transparent and easily verifiable, and not much more difficult to transfer ownership of (because transferring the "token" of ownership isn't where the friction is).

So those don't look like things that NFTs make better in this space.