In the unreal estate of cyberspace, the key considerations are content, content and content.

In addition to several million rubles and a 2,000-acre estate which was soon to perish, Nabokov inherited even greater wealth - what he called "the beauty of intangible property, the unreal estate" of memories of a perfect boyhood amid fauna and flora, books and butterflies, loving parents and first love.

Its only serious competition in the magical business of unreal estate is Venice, that other improbable city.

An attempt had been made to pretty up the immediate area with grass and trees, but since the site had been built partly on the old ground known as the 'unreal estate' this had not worked as planned.

On any map of thaumic pollution the unreal estate would be the centre of some extremely concentric circles.

I believe I am right in saying the estate, including the farms, the areas of urban development, and the small area of unreal estate near the University, are together worth approximately . . . seven million dollars a year.

On the same topic, I also really enjoyed The Pickup Artist, which describes what happens fifty years from now when unreal estate gets a little too out of control.

Apple's initial array of services, only for users who have OS 9, is displayed as folder tabs across the top of its Apple Web site, which also can be reached by typing www.mac.com - the prime unreal estate of Apple's Internet strategy.