{"id":133821,"date":"2022-01-09T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/investors-buy-up-metaverse-real-estate-in-virtual-land-boom-wsj"},"modified":"2022-01-09T23:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:23:01","slug":"investors-buy-up-metaverse-real-estate-in-virtual-land-boom-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/investors-buy-up-metaverse-real-estate-in-virtual-land-boom-wsj","title":{"rendered":"Investors Buy Up Metaverse Real Estate in Virtual Land Boom | WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIllSiXVfmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Real-estate transactions in the metaverse are reaching record highs. We spoke with companies investing in digital real estate to understand the economic model, and why investors are spending millions on virtual property. Photo: Republic Realm.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Wall Street Journal:<br \/> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/WSJ.com\">WSJ.com<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com<\/a>.<br \/> Visit the WSJ Video Center: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsj.com\/video\">https:\/\/wsj.com\/video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/<\/a><br \/> On Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ<\/a><br \/> On Snapchat: <a href=\"https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM\">https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Metaverse #RealEstate #WSJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real-estate transactions in the metaverse are reaching record highs. We spoke with companies investing in digital real estate to understand the economic model, and why investors are spending millions on virtual property. Photo: Republic Realm. More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http:\/\/www.wsj.com. Visit the WSJ Video Center: https:\/\/wsj.com\/video. On Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/ On Twitter: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}