Question for island owners on divide parcel

My island just came online 2 days ago and I am working on it, I edited the terrain to a 2 islands with quit a bit of water around the islands. My question is when you divide your island to parcel for rent/sale, do you include the land under the water as part of the square meter or you would only divide thing that above the water?
I would imagine you would include under water land so if someone has a ship and want to build a private dock for ship, they could put it on the water? But I am afraid that if I put too much of water in a parcel people won't like it. So what yours take?
Is something like 80/20 or 70/30 land/water ratio acceptable?
Any comment or suggestion would be welcome. Thanks

If you like, wander around my Caledon sims and you'll quickly get an idea of how I do my parceling. Sometimes a choice coastal lot *can* be more water than land - some people don't really need a huge McMansion but love a bit of coastline or a bay, with trees and animals surrounding them.

The only real difference is that I usually wipe out coastline when I add a new sim next to an old one so I have a continent, not a bunch of pancakes at sea.

I've had a fairly complex set of 'coastal rights' rules to keep people happy when I obliterate some shoreline, though.


Of course, with the land market so hot these days anyone could probably offer anything, and it would still sell. Not sure if that will still be the case in 3-4 months, but we'll see.

My private island sim has no buildings on the ground at all, as the residencies are all skyhomes. The sim is full of little sandy islands that are great for surfboarding and jetskiing around.

I split the island into a 4x4 grid (16 plots) of 4096sqm. The 'size' is often irrelevant (if it is the rental market you are looking at), as it is the prims that people are really after. So, decide how many prims you wish to allocate to each plot, then divide the 15000 total prims by this number to get the number of plots. If a plot is mostly water, consider putting up a Skypod or similar at 250m to 700m above the plot and renting it out.

Rock

Absolutely DO consider including water area in parcels that border on the water! Not only does it give the resident someplace to rez their own boats and other water toys, but the prim count from the underwater area still counts to what they can place on the land. I used to own land in one sim where over 1/2 of my parcel was under water. It gave me LOTS of prims to use on land, and I could play easily in the water when I chose to do so.