OWNLIFE

Every building on earth

You are a real estate trader

Buy a terraced house in Utrecht or the tallest tower in Dubai, both of them exist, both of them are on the map. Rent them out, do them up, sell them on. You run it all from an office you walk around in.

  • everyaddress on earth
  • 6floors in your office
  • 1offices open
  • 1traders

Your headquarters

You do not click through menus, you walk. Take the lift, step onto a floor and use the thing that stands there. A person is 1.80 m and a floor is 3 m, so the office is the size of a real one.

  1. 0 ReceptionThe board: The board
  2. 1 Your officeYour desk: Your own desk
  3. 2 Property managementThe manager desk: Your buildings, country by country
  4. 3 FinanceThe finance desk: What every country brings in
  5. 4 Trading floorMap wall: The world map and the marketplace
  6. 5 InvestmentsTicker wall: The exchange

Real buildings, real prices

The map is OpenStreetMap, so the outline you buy is the outline that stands there. Floor area comes from the footprint and the number of storeys, and towers are not counted as if they kept their ground floor all the way up.

Terraced house

Utrecht, Netherlands

Usable floor
163 m2
Asking price
$1.1m
Per square metre
$6,564

Apartment block

Lagos, Nigeria

Usable floor
900 m2
Asking price
$1.5m
Per square metre
$1,678

The Shard

London, United Kingdom

Usable floor
77,085 m2
Asking price
$1.03bn
Per square metre
$13,373

Burj Khalifa

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Usable floor
246,811 m2
Asking price
$928m
Per square metre
$3,761

Trading with the others

A building that belongs to another trader is never simply for sale. You can look at it, you can offer for it, and the owner decides.

The marketplace

Only what a trader bought and then listed. Filter on country, kind and price, and see how far the asking price sits from the valuation. Buildings nobody ever bought are not here, they are on the map.

Offers and counters

Name a price on any building someone else owns, listed or not. Your money is set aside while the offer runs and comes straight back when it is turned down. The owner accepts, refuses, or names his own price and sends it back to you.

The exchange

4 kinds of fund, forty in all, each with four hundred days of price history from the day you arrive. Your order moves the price, the bigger the order the further it moves. Metals pay a dividend every month.

Everything you can do

Every part of the game has its own page, with pictures taken inside the game itself.

A floor of the headquarters seen from above, with desks, staff and the lift
The building you work from

Your headquarters

The property management desk with a card for every country you have an office in
Country, then building

The property management floor

The letting tab of a house: who lives there, and the record of every month paid and every month missed
People, not sliders

Tenants and rent

The world map on the trading floor with the countries you have opened
Every address on earth

The world map

The marketplace with listings, asking prices and how far they sit from the valuation
Trading with the others

The marketplace

The watchlist with a chart, ranges from a day to the whole history, and a buy button
Where the spare money goes

The exchange

The portfolio with value, return, rate of return, net deposits and the positions underneath
What you are up and what you are down

Your portfolio

The inside of a house you own, with rooms, furniture and a tenant walking about
Walk in and look around

Inside your buildings

The plane on its way from Amsterdam to Berlin, drawn over the map
Open a country, fly to it

Offices around the world

The board with every trading house, what it is worth and how many offices it runs
Everyone on one list

The board and the economy

The board

Every trading house in the game on one list. It hangs in your reception and it updates while you play.

  1. 1PEPablito EstatesCarlos Pablito$2.0B1 offices

One economy

Every amount in the game is a booking. Rent comes in, maintenance and tax go out, a sale moves money from one trader to another. Nothing appears out of thin air.

1Traders
1Offices open
1Countries
0Online now

How you begin

  1. 1. Make yourselfName, age, face. This is who walks around the office.
  2. 2. Name your trading houseIt goes on the door and on the board.
  3. 3. Pick your first countryYou get an office there for nothing. You can only buy where you have an office.
  4. 4. Take the lift to the trading floorThe map wall opens the world. Search any address there is.
  5. 5. Buy, let, waitRent comes in every month, maintenance goes out every month. An empty building costs you money.