A real estate company has put up for sale a villa located in the Belgian town of Tongres for 1,475,000 euros (about 1.58 million dollars), with the peculiarity of
that the buyer will also receive a replica of the house in the metaversethrough the digital world of Decentraland.
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The physical property consists of 474 m² built on a plot of 7,683 m²
in the Flanders region and “whoever buys the house in Tongres will receive the same in the
metaverse”, offers the real estate company Zimmo, which it says is the first offer of its kind in Belgium and in the rest of the world.
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“The new owner of this property will also sign a world first: he will receive the same house and its land in the virtual universe of the metaverse”indicates the real estate agency, which on its website allows you to compare the physical and digital house.
The digital replica of the villa is located in Decentraland, a three-dimensional virtual environment where plots and properties can be purchased in the form of a non-fungible token (Non Fungible Token or NTF) through the website’s own cryptocurrency, MANA.
“A particularly smart investment because you can rent your land there”adds the real estate company about Decentraland, where last November, and at a time of boom in cryptocurrencies and NFTs, a virtual house was sold in that environment for the equivalent of 2.4 million dollars (about 2.2 millions of euros).
The ad suggests to potential buyers that in the virtual property, valued
for about 30,000 euros or 32,000 dollars, events such as “opening
an art gallery or rent the land to companies that want to take their first steps in the metarverse”.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from Efe
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