Listing Estates with other land sales is a mistake

This looks like it is going to be a complete mess. Having estate sales mixed in with regular land sales is very confusing. You can't tell what is an estate and what isn't on the surface. New players aren't going to have a clue. Estates have to have their own category like auctions and first land - even then the new population will be confused. I think this is a can of worms that LL will wish it had not opened.

I ENDORSE this PRODUCT and/or SERVICE.

I would absolutely agree that sales of land on private estates should be in its own category, and not mixed in with mainland land sales, with no indication as to which is which.

There MUST be some way to tell, when searching, which land is Linden land and which is Private Estates. It makes a huge difference in terms of whether or not you must be premium, or must increase your Premium tier. Not to mention the inherant differences between directly owning land on the mainland, and 'owning' land through a private estate's sim owner.

Case in point. Last night I brought a friend to a private island, to show her some land that was soon to be for sale. She commented that she'd love to buy, but was up against her tier limit and couldn't get more without increasing her tier again. Since I was there, I was able to assure her that this was a private sim, and would not count against her tier from the mainland. So we continued negotiating, and she may well pick up a sweet deal on a vacation home in that sim.

Imagine if she had searched for that same plot in "find land", without my help, and didn't realize it was in a private sim. She wouldn't have bothered even checking it out, and could have missed out on a nice deal that she would have been quite happy with.

Or imagine someone planning to buy a nice chunk of land on a private island, and mistakenly increasing their Premium tier to cover the additional land, when in fact it was unnecessary to incur that extra expense.