Tyche Shepherd has published the findings of her November 2012 private estate survey, which took place on December 1st. The survey uses a random sampling of 5,000 private estates to draw its results.
I’m not going to publish the findings in full, as Tyche already does that, however I’ll highlight a couple of points. The survey estimates that there has been a small drop of 0.1% in terms of tier income this month, down to US$4,316,000 +/- US$54,000, whereas last month’s estimate was US$4,319,000, so it’s down by around US$3,000. The survey uses known grandfathered rates for its results but doesn’t include any academic discounts or obviously, any deals between Linden Lab and landowners as these aren’t public knowledge. The figures are also rounded down to the nearest US$1,000.
The top ten landowners account for 27.4% (+/- 1.2%) of privately owned land, which is down 0.3% since last month. The movers and shakers seem to be Zoha Estates, who are estimated to be up 0.5% and RGF estates who appear to be down 0.8%.
However we aren’t seeing huge changes in the top private estate owners and this survey does have margins of error. There’s nothing eye popping about the changes in either direction.
The top twenty estates in terms of percentage of land held are:
- RGF Estates Inc 4.6%
- Zoha Islands 3.6%
- Dreamseeker Estates 2.7%
- Azure Islands 2.6%
- Weezles Real Estate (WRE) 2.5%
- Fruit Islands Estate 2.2%
- Jessica Chung 2.1%
- Victoria Chung 2.1% tied for 8th place with Miriam Chung 2.1%
- Ohana Land 1.4%
- Lala Rentals 1.4%
- Bell Estates 1.3%
- Surreal Chung 1.2%
- Jewels Islands 1.2%
- Burdeyna Islands 1.1%
- Lorena Chung 0.9%
- Kendallwood Virtual Estates 0.9% tied for 17th place with Serena Estates 0.9%.
- Serena Estates 0.9%
- Tribe Islands 0.8%
- Reality Moller 0.7%
Anshe Chung’s empire is made up of different estates these days, combined they account for an estimated 12.2% of private estate land, but they are not grouped under one umbrella.