5 Places to Obtain Virtual Real Estate Data
Buy and Sell Smarter
People spent over $500 million on virtual real estate assets in 2021, but until very recently, it hasn’t been easy to find the data necessary to make informed purchasing decisions. The situation was such that people often bought land uncertain of where it was even located. Sensing the need for better data, several companies have jumped in over the last year or so to try to fill the void. There are now a few places to obtain good information on the virtual real estate market. But, for better or worse, it tends to come in only two varieties: “free” and “quite expensive”. There’s not much in between. Nevertheless, the five websites listed below represent my five favorites (in no particular order), regardless of whether or not they require payment for access.
1.) WeMeta
http://wemeta.world | @WeMetaTweets
Note: I occasionally publish for WeMeta on a paid basis. I will attempt to keep the information about their service as unbiased as possible.
Founded in early 2021 on the West coast of the United States, WeMeta emerged at a time in which there was really not much virtual real estate data to go off of and became one of the first players in this space. They currently offer an analytics dashboard for free at http://analytics.wemeta.world/welcome . There you can find data for “The Big Four” metaverses (The Sandbox, Decentraland, Somnium Space, and Cryptovoxels), which includes things like floor price, average sale prices, active players, and so on. You can also browse listings of parcels currently available for sale.
WeMeta will be launching further analytics in the relatively near future, and there is the option to join a waitlist for early notice and access when they go live. Visit their website if you would like to check out what they have or sign up to get notified when more comes online.
2.) MetaMetriks
http://metametriks.xyz | @MetaMetriks
Another Metaverse data and analytics company founded in 2021 was MetaMetriks. They are based in the United Kingdom, but they have analysts elsewhere around the world contributing to their service. Like WeMeta, they too offer a free dashboard for anyone to peruse. Theirs is found at http://dune.xyz/metaland/Metaverse-Land-Community , and contains data for 14 different worlds. It lists the number of owners, average price, volume sold, history of individual transactions, etc.
The free dashboard is remarkably expansive for a free product, but they also offer a full, professional suite of data for $199 per month. There, you will receive over 30 additional charts and tables to inform your purchase and sale decisions. This is the same information they provide to EveryRealm (formerly known as “Republic Realm”), who is one of the largest players in Metaverse real estate at the moment.
3.) MetaCat
http://metacat.world | @Metacat007
Note: MetaCat has translated some of my previous articles into Chinese. As with WeMeta, I will try to remain objective about what they have to offer.
The only entry out of Asia on this list, MetaCat offers data in both English and Chinese. All of their numbers are provided for free, and the site focuses on Cryptovoxels and Decentraland. The Cryptovoxels data is especially extensive, as it includes an elegant “heat map” of traffic. It’s one of the first GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications for the Metaverse, and I made use of it to write an article previously. You can access the map at https://www.metacat.world/en-US/map .
Aside from the quantitative data, MetaCat also aspires to make it possible to better navigate and browse the content of the metaverses. To that end, you can find the locations and pictures of individual parcels on their front page, which I don’t believe any of the other four offers. For Chinese speakers, this may very well be the best VRE data option on the web.
4.) Digital Landowners Society
Digital Landowners Society (DLS) works on a model that’s quite unlike the rest of the five on this list. To access their analytics tools, one must purchase one of their NFTs. This opens up their stable of tools and analytics. These are currently .119 ETH (~$373) on OpenSea, but also available for purchase on their website. The list of tools you receive includes an “Estate Finder”, an “Interconnected Lands Finder”, a land valuation tool, a bot for automating bids on listings, “Daily Reports”, and a way of receiving notifications of floor price changes. You can see their current offerings and the metaverses they are compatible with at http://dls.so/tools .
While the .119 ETH commitment may turn off some users, there is the potential for those costs to be returned over time. DLS plans to add a marketplace for buying and selling land, as well as a platform for purchasing fractions of parcels, which may be the first of its kind. The goal is to create a widespread user base for those two applications, which will have a transaction fees of 2.5%. Of the proceeds those transaction fees generate, 30% will be distributed to the NFT holders. The more of their NFTs you have, the more proceeds you receive.
DLS has other things going on as well that are not directly related to data, so they are outside the scope of this particular article. I would encourage anyone interested to check out their Discord to see the full scope of their projects.
5.) Milk and Honey Estates
https://mhdigitalrealestate.io/index.html | @MlkHoneyEstates
Milk and Honey Estates is also a subscription service, but they deliver their data on a daily basis rather than on-demand. Essentially, they provide a daily newsletter called “The Land Baron Report” that gets delivered to your inbox. It appears to be tailored specifically to The Sandbox, but wow, it looks really comprehensive! You receive lots of statistics, maps of which parcels were recently transacted, and even breakdowns of data by map region. A sample is available at http://mhdigitalrealestate.io/sample.html , where you can see what it is that you would be receiving for your money. To obtain the Reports, Milk and Honey Estates charges a monthly rate of $149.99 with a 30-day free trial. You also have the option of paying for the full year at $1,500 , which represents a 20% savings.
It’s also worth noting that the Milk and Honey Estates team also provides some good info for free via their Twitter account as well. They even occasionally point when parcels appear to have been listed below market price. I’d say it’s worth following if you have an interest in virtual real estate.
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