HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's sky-high property prices are usually the talk of the town, but the buzz these days is about real estate that you won't find anywhere in the glitzy financial hub: virtual land.
Prices for land that exists only in the digital world are soaring on the back of broader interest in the metaverse, a concept championed by Microsoft and Facebook -- recently renamed Meta -- which envisions a future where people interact as avatars in the virtual realm.