Real Mortgage Company Issues Report on Video Game Housing Market

Mortgage company London & Country has issued an interesting report called “An In-Depth Analysis of the Video Game Housing Market”. It is exactly what its title suggests, specifically looking at the costs (converted from imaginary game money to real currency) of various housing and property options in popular games like Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Fallout 4, and The Witcher 3.

By way of explaining the interest a real mortgage company might have in writing about such a strange topic, especially as the currencies in many of these games have no real world conversion value, the report begins by noting that, "Every month, more people Google ‘how to buy a house in Skyrim’ than ‘How to buy a house in London,’ ‘the UK,’ ‘France,’ ‘Spain,’ and even ‘America.‘”

This may seem like a meaningless exercise, perhaps a bit of fun to generate media interest and web traffic for London & Country itself. And that may be partly true, at least. However, given the increasingly sophisticated nature of video game real estate, in some cases with real world monetary value, it is if anything predictable that this will become a matter of interest for experts in physical world real estate, as well. Especially if Virtual Worlds should ever become, as many predict they will, a part of the online mainstream in the future, beyond video games and niche platforms like Second Life.

The report actually does make for a handy guide for the Aspiring In Game Homeowner wishing to better understand the various costs and amenities of the various properties before shelling out any precious coinage, as well, thus fulfilling its apparent purpose.

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