Morning Roundup (3/23/2022)– Digital Real Estate, Applications, IMB Profits Down

Good Morning! Today is Wednesday, March 23. Russia extended a law banning criticism of the government, and a court sentenced the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny to nine more years in prison. At least one person died last night after a tornado in the New Orleans area damaged homes and knocked out power. The Mortgage Note Reports Digital Real Estate: What Is It And Who Is Interested? Millions of dollars are being spent on digital real estate as investors take their money to the land of the Metaverse and Tyrone Townsend is taking a look at this new virtual opportunity. Applications Down: Mortgage loan application volume plummeted by another 8.1% last week as interest rates rise. IMB Profits Down:IMBs and mortgage…

Digital Real Estate: What Is It And Who Is Interested?

By TYRONE TOWNSEND Millions of dollars are being spent on digital real estate as investors take their money to the land of the Metaverse.  Since Facebook renamed its company to Meta Platforms in October, plot prices have skyrocketed by 500 percent. Meta and other businesses have a long-term ambition of creating 360-degree immersive worlds that people will access through virtual reality goggles. Users may now access these worlds using a standard computer screen. Real individuals engage in these virtual worlds as cartoon-like characters known as avatars, akin to a real-time multiplayer video game.  Journalists from the Wall Street Journal recently spoke with companies investing in digital real estate to understand the economic model, and why investors are spending so much…