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I can completely understand where you're coming from Ciaran, but having said that, I think that the idea of virtual land being an investment isn't really tenable. The price for real world land maintains value because there's ultimately only a limited amount of it: we can't build more Earths if it gets too expensive.

In virtual spaces, though, any such scarcity is both artificial, and temporary. Unless Linden Lab remains the sole supplier of virtual territory (unlikely) and decides to maintain an artificial scarcity (which may not be in its interest), the price of "land" will always trend down over the long term. In the short term, that trend will be slow. But ultimately, it will be very quick. Think of the cost of web hosting, and how it's trended over the past ten years.

I know this isn't any consolation if you've viewed the value of virtual assets as being something that's an investment. But as an investment, it really was never a good one. Calling it "land" was always a misnomer.