Tyche Shepherd’s Private Estate Survey For July

Tyche Shepherd’s private estate survey for July brings home the decline in private regions due to two landmark figures being met. Private regions slipped below the 20,000 mark during July and estimated private region tier fell below the the USD$4,000,000 per month mark. Although it should be noted that Tyche’s estimates are +/- USD$50,000, so tier may be treading water above the USD$4,000,000 mark. However another point to note is that Tyche’s estimates do not include educational discounts, so it’s likely that tier has slipped below the USD$4,000,000 barrier.

Tyche estimates that tier from private regions now stands at USD$3,975,000 +/- USD$50,000, which is estimated to be down USD$53,000 on June. Again, please note the margins of error for these figures.

Having said that, this is still a healthy income stream, we’re far from having to man the lifeboats but as I have repeatedly said, Linden Lab need to get their thinking caps on, tier is still too much of a central plank of their income stream and the tier is too damn high.

The Top 10 Estates by number of regions held are:

•  RGF Estates Inc 5.1%
• Azure Islands 3.4%
• Zoha Islands 3.2%
• Dreamseeker Estates 2.9%
• Victoria Chung 2.7%
• Weezles Real Estate (WRE) 2.4%
• Miriam Chung 2.3%
• Jessica Chung 2.3%
• Fruit Islands Estate 1.7%
• Lala Rentals 1.7%

There were no significant changes in the way the land lies for the large estate owners this month, all variations were within the margin of error. The top nine estates occupy the same nine positions they did last month, Lala Rentals has swapped places with Bell Estates, which drops to eleventh place on the list, but at 1.7% and 1.6% respectively, they could easily flip flop again, they are running pretty much neck and neck. A list of the top 20 estates is available on Tyche’s SLU post.

The same is true of class of server, there were no significant changes during July, the current scores on the doors are:

• Class 501 – 0.1%
• Class 503 – 12.3%
• Class 701  – 41.5%
• Class 703 – 4.7%
• Class 801 – 41.4%

So in terms of change with the big boys, nothing really of note, the eyecatching figures this month though are the drop in tier and regions below noteworthy levels. However Tyche has been on holiday, which might explain some of the losses because with Tyche and her survey bot relaxing in the sun, the grid suffered its largest fortnightly loss of estates for the year. Tyche reports in her latest survey on all things land, that private regions fell by 158 over the last fortnight.

However some of those losses were expected, the American Cancer Society removed 40 regions, this is not unusual, these regions are largely there for Relay For Life, which has more or less finished now. Another four regions were lost due to the end of the hair fair. It is of course swings and roundabouts with these sort of regions, region figures get a boost when they come online and take a hit when they go offline.

Overall, Linden Lab are still bringing home the bacon, but when are they going to start getting innovative with tier options?

For more of Tyche’s stats, go here: http://www.gridsurvey.com/

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