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- Overall number of parcels down 2.2%.<\/li>\n
- Total number of Owners down 2.8%.<\/li>\n
- Individual Owners down 3.0%.<\/li>\n
- Total number of land holding groups down 1.6%.<\/li>\n
- Abandoned land up from 11.7% to 12.6% to a new record high of 13.4% to 14.2%.<\/li>\n
- Governor Linden owned land up 1.6%.<\/li>\n
- All Linden land holdings up 1.5% to 49%.<\/li>\n
- Land for sale down 35.8%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The extremely worrying figures relate to the increased Linden Lab holdings, which at 49% amont to nearly half of all mainland, the increase in abandonded land and the significant drop in land for sale. Tyche reports that land is being abandoned faster than it is being sold and the fact that land prices are basically rock bottom explains why people would rather abandon that wait to sell, but even then, land at rock bottom prices simply isn’t moving.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Abandoned Land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Now if you squint and look at the above graph from a funny angle, you’ll be able to see how it represents an ongoing increase of abandoned land. Alternatively you can go to the SLUniverse link and look at the graph properly, all graphs will follow this pattern because I can’t squeeze them in nicely, but trust me, this bar chart shows an increase in abandoned land and it’s quite staggering. The increase of abandoned land over the last quarter is the the equivalent of 108 to 115 full regions.<\/p>\n
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When it comes to Linden owned land, Tyche doesn’t include welcome areas or Linden Realms. Linden land also includes roads, Linden Department of Public works land etc. So it’s not just abandoned land that is Linden owned, but LDPW land hasn’t increased during the last quarter.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Mainland – Land Status<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The above chart gives another overview of mainland land status, as can be seen … I hope, the red section is non Linden owned land, that has been falling since September 2011, the green and purple sections represent protected Linden Land and abandoned land respectively, and as can be seen, both have been increasing.<\/p>\n
However the really worrying stat is the sorry state of land for sale, this isn’t just an issue of land prices being extremely depressed, the worrying issue is that more land is being abandoned than being bought. Abandoned land on its own wouldn’t be a great indicator, but it would be less worrisome if others were picking up that abandoned land. Therefore it seems people are deciding it’s better just to abandon their land than set it for sale.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Mainland For Sale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The purple part of the chart represents non Linden owned land for sale whereas the blue part shows Linden owned land for sale. As we can see….. come on you can see this, right? Anyway, as we can see, non Linden owned mainland for sale has been in decline since December 2011, Linden owned land for sale was pumping up the amount of land for sale since June 2011, these will be parcels Linden lab auction or possibly set for sale when it has been abandoned.<\/p>\n
Why Linden owned land for sale is on the slide when abandoned land is on the increase remains a mystery, as there’s plenty of land to sell, but there’s probably a good reason for this. However one interesting stat comes to light when we look at the large land holders, including Linden Lab, those with holdings over 750.000sqm:<\/p>\n
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- Governor Linden owns 185,384,544Sqm (42.0% of total) in 28234 parcels<\/li>\n
- Linden Department of Works holds 26,751,760Sqm (6.1%) in 2448 parcels<\/li>\n
- Largest Non-Linden group holds 5,747,552Sqm (1.3%) in 88 parcels<\/li>\n
- Second Largest Non-Linden group holds 4,318,080Sqm (1.0%) in 69 parcels<\/li>\n
- Blake Sea group holds 3,167,280Sqm (0.7%) in 140 parcels<\/li>\n
- Third Largest Non-Linden group holds 971,056Sqm (0.2%) in 224 parcels<\/li>\n
- Fourth Largest Non-Linden group holds 861,312qm (0.2%) in 191 parcels<\/li>\n
- Fifth Largest Non-Linden group holds 776,608qm (0.2%) in 371 parcels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Now I don’t know if the Non-Linden groups have changed over this quarter, but the largest Non-Linden group is up 0.2% and 13 parcels since March, the Second Largest Non-Linden group is up 0.3% and 20 parcels. The third largest Non-Linden group is down 0.1% whereas the fourth is unchanged, but the fifth Non-Linden group didn’t even make this threshold for the last census, so some groups are certainly increasing their land holdings.<\/p>\n
However what about the all important score on the door, tier, Tyche informs us that based upon the same tier assumptions as the previous Census Total Monthly Mainland Tier is down by\u00a0by US$32,406 or 3.6%, although still at a healthy looking US$871,460 per month.<\/p>\n
I’m not quite sure what to make of all this, as I said at the start it doesn’t make happy reading but I’m not sure what exactly can be done here. Mainland tier for small land owners is not particularly expensive, but maybe the problem is that small land holdings aren’t as attractive as they once were. I am still firmly in the tier is too damn high camp when it comes to wanting to hold more land and I certainly think second sim syndrome should be looked at, this means that if someone holds a full sim of land, their next parcel that takes them into the next tier level works out to cost half a sim worth of tier. Maybe the tier steps are too steep all through the mainland cycle.<\/p>\n
I don’t see the trends reported in Tyche’s census changing anytime soon.<\/p>\n