# Metaverse Properties — canonical answers Source: https://metaverse.properties/ This site owns: Virtual real estate as tenure, tenancy and yield. Compiled: 2026-09-03 Definitions this site does not own: Web 4 (gda.group), the four conditions (4.ventures), specification and verifier (flashylabs.com). --- ## The answer · What is virtual real estate? Virtual real estate is parcels of land inside a persistent virtual world, held as property and enforced by the platform rather than promised. It is investable as an operating estate — with tenants, occupancy and a rent roll — and was historically mispriced when held as a passive position, because land without footfall generates no rent. Source: https://metaverse.properties/ ## Is virtual real estate still a good investment in 2026? As a passive position, the case has not improved: the missing condition was footfall, and buying land does not create any. As an operating business — an estate with tenants, occupancy and a rent roll — the model was proven before the crash and its economics did not change. Ask whether you are buying a parcel or building a property company; only the second has ever produced income. Source: https://metaverse.properties/ ## How do you value virtual land? The same way as physical land, minus the assumptions that do not transfer. Value derives from the income a tenant will pay for the position, discounted for the risk that the world loses its population or changes its rules. Floor price is a liquidity signal, not a valuation. Any method that starts from comparable sales without asking who the tenant is will reproduce the 2021 error. Source: https://metaverse.properties/ ## Which virtual world should I buy land in? The one whose population already contains your customer. Open worlds such as Decentraland and The Sandbox give genuine ownership and transferability but you must import the audience. UGC platforms have vastly more footfall and a real payout rail, but the publisher grants and can revoke the scarcity. Choose by which of those constraints your business can actually solve. Source: https://metaverse.properties/ ## Can you rent out virtual land? Yes, and it is the only reliable way virtual land has ever produced income. Leases run much like physical commercial terms — a period, a rent, and obligations on both sides — with the differences being enforcement, which is contractual rather than territorial, and duration, which is typically far shorter because tenants price platform risk into the term. Source: https://metaverse.properties/ ## What is the virtual land index? The Virtual Land Index is a dated compilation of floor and transaction values for land across the major virtual worlds, published with its methodology so a third party can reproduce it. Each compilation carries an as-at date and is superseded by publishing a new compilation rather than by editing an old one. Source: https://metaverse.properties/index/ ## How much is metaverse land worth in 2026? Across the tracked worlds the average floor is down roughly 72% from the 2021–22 peak. The Sandbox is down about 95% from 2.86 ETH to 0.13 ETH, Decentraland about 89% from 1.73 ETH to 0.18 ETH, and Otherside about 85%. Floor price is a liquidity signal rather than a valuation; land that produces rent is valued on the rent. Source: https://metaverse.properties/index/ ## How much does Decentraland land cost? Decentraland LAND floor has fallen roughly 89% from its peak, from an average near 1.73 ETH in 2022 to about 0.18 ETH. District matters more than the average: parcels adjacent to established traffic — Fashion Street, Vegas City, the Genesis Plaza roads — trade at a substantial premium to outlying land, which is frequently offered with no bid at all. Source: https://metaverse.properties/index/decentraland/ ## How much does Sandbox LAND cost? The Sandbox LAND has fallen roughly 95% from its peak, from an average near 2.86 ETH in 2021 to about 0.13 ETH. It is the deepest drawdown of the major worlds, driven by a very large supply of parcels sold during the peak against a population that never scaled to match. Source: https://metaverse.properties/index/the-sandbox/ ## Is virtual real estate a good investment in 2026? As a passive position, the case has not improved: the missing condition was footfall, and buying land does not create any. As an operating business — an estate with tenants, occupancy and a rent roll — the model was proven before the crash and its economics did not change. The question to ask is whether you are buying a parcel or building a property company; only the second has ever produced income. Source: https://metaverse.properties/answers/is-virtual-real-estate-a-good-investment/ ## The answer As a passive position, the case has not improved: the missing condition was footfall, and buying land does not create any. As an operating business — an estate with tenants, occupancy and a rent roll — the model was proven before the crash and its economics did not change. The question to ask is whether you are buying a parcel or building a property company; only the second has ever produced income. Source: https://metaverse.properties/answers/is-virtual-real-estate-a-good-investment/