Hot off the presses is Tyche Shepherd’s awesome private estate survey, September 2011 edition. The survey is based on a sample of 5,000 randomly selected private estate regions, which is a high enough number to get some pretty decent figures from.
The survey tells us that Anshe Chung is losing sims, but not that many as quite a few are ending up in the hands of The Chung Sisters and when you add ACS Dreamland, Azure Islands and The Chung Sisters holdings into the pot together, Anshe’s organisation is top of the pile with 7.9% but this is 0.7% down on last month.
The big climber appears to be LaLa estates, who are now in second place as an independent group, with a 0.6% increase this month, top of the charts however is RGF Estates, with 5.7%. Confused? Anshe’s holdings are in different groups, so RGF is top as an independent entity but Anshe’s group is overall top when you add together all the different groupings, however as individual entities they are behind RGF and Lala estates.
When it came to surveying these regions, only 4,335 regions could be accessed of those, Tyche informs us:
- Full Regions – 57.1%
- Homesteads – 42.3%
- Open Spaces – 0.6%
Tyche reports that there has been a very small shift away from full regions but looking at those stats, Open spaces simply aren’t appealing. When it comes to Homesteads, there is a maybe surprising figure of a rise in the number of non-grandfathered sims, up 1.0% to around 40% of the 1,835 Homesteads Tyche surveyed, this suggests a small rise in income perhaps but this is more than balanced out by the total loss of 106 regions since the last survey.
Tyche estimates that monthly private estate tier is USD$5,052,000 a month, this is +/- USD$60,000 …. you’re going to have to ask Tyche what this means but it suggests tier is down around USD$37,000 or 0.7%, these figures are not perfect and Tyche makes no claims that they are, but they should be close to the true picture.
For full details go to the link, I posted it at the top of the post …. ok I’ll post it again here.
For more Tyche and her awesome stats on a variety of Second Life matters, visit Gridsurvey.com.