for people building buildings

Was wondering what you consider standard "lot sizes", and per lot size what do you usuealy target as far as footprint size and number of prims?

Thanks

Most people follow the old first land sizes:

512 = 16*32, 117 prim limit, so try to stay well below 50 prims for a house if you don't want the furniture to be really minimalistic. It's annoying that this tends to give a house just wide enough for 1 good room, but long enough to place 2 behind one another, including more room for a staircase to a second floor. I generally stick to 10 or 12.5 mtr wide and about 25 mtrs long

1024 = 32 * 32, 234 prim limit. Try to stay well below 100 prims which is generally easier then following the 50 prim limit from before, since you can save yourself at least one wall from the house. The avarage house on these lots is 25*25, so 4 10*10 tiles and a cross of 5*10 and 5*5 tiles in the middle. This setup already gives you a nice layout idea for how to place rooms as well, the central rows making nice hallways inside, but that's all depending on your personal taste and layout of course.

On the 2048 lots, you have 468 prims available. For building, owners often place a house that was built for a 1024 lot on it, and use half of their space for a big garden. Try to stick below 200 prims whatever you do though. Furniture still eats prims, and making a guarden takes lots of prims as well, since most plants and trees take more then 3 prims a pice.
I think the Hacienda from House that Jack Built (the best around, I can really admire his work) fits on a 2048 lot, though very tightly.

4096 lots are great for building Over 900 prims on the land is really a luxury! But keep the house below 400, otherwise it'll just be an empty house with nothing inside. Owners of land this size also often like to save some prims to hang a skybox somewhere above their house, which depending on size and furniture can easily chew away 100 prims!

Soo, rule of thumb: leave roughly 30% of the land around the house empty (subject to change, of course, but it's a good rule to start from) and try to use no more then 50 prims per 512 sqr meters of land for the house (If you can go below 40, then that's even better!). If an owner wants more extras, in walls, windows inside walls, doors, ornaments, etc, then warn them of the consequences to their furniture.

Thanks, that will help alot. I have already built 3 buildings but haven't started selling them partialy cause im still touching them up, but also because I wanted to be able to say what size plot they would be good for, but didn't know. Looks like most of them I should advertise for a 2048 lot if not all of them.

Sofar I have 3 that in finishing up asap, 2 Story + attic Oriental house, 3 Story Tree House, and a 3 1/2 story target range & combat arena.