Colwyn
04-20-2006, 02:39 PM
Second Life: 2000 Real Estate Agents to Learn Selling Virtually on MMO Portal (http://mmo.portalsnetwork.com/index.php?module=PortalGameDB&func=detail&article=1681)
This July some 2,000 high-powered, real life real estate agents and technology executives will learn how to buy and sell virtual property in the simulated, online real estate market of Second Life. Second Life is a game-like world with its own property and its own currency, which can be converted directly to U.S. dollars.
At Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2006, a conference held July 26 to 28 in that city's Palace Hotel, Second Life's Vice President of Marketing David Fleck will present on “Virtual Real Estate: What must we learn from gamers, immersive online communities and their addictive, artificial worlds of ‘real’ estate?”
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“The best agents want to understand how value is created in the real world, real estate market,” said Mike Edelhart, CEO of Inman News. “Learning how a virtual world prices its real estate is one way of gaining insight into markets, pricing and the balance between supply and demand.”
This July some 2,000 high-powered, real life real estate agents and technology executives will learn how to buy and sell virtual property in the simulated, online real estate market of Second Life. Second Life is a game-like world with its own property and its own currency, which can be converted directly to U.S. dollars.
At Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2006, a conference held July 26 to 28 in that city's Palace Hotel, Second Life's Vice President of Marketing David Fleck will present on “Virtual Real Estate: What must we learn from gamers, immersive online communities and their addictive, artificial worlds of ‘real’ estate?”
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“The best agents want to understand how value is created in the real world, real estate market,” said Mike Edelhart, CEO of Inman News. “Learning how a virtual world prices its real estate is one way of gaining insight into markets, pricing and the balance between supply and demand.”