CITY EMPIRE

From a small-town realtor to the world's largest real-estate group. CITY EMPIRE is a turn-based management sim about running a real estate developer - the sequel to BUILD EMPIRE, and this time you hire the contractor. Acquire, build, lease, sell, and climb to No.1 in the world by assets under management. ■ How it plays 1. Acquire - read the seller's situation, negotiate, and buy listings and land 2. Develop - choose what to build, award the job to a contractor, reach completion 3. Operate - fill the space and let rental income build up month after month 4. Exit - sell, hold, or move it into your own fund. Timing the market is the game ■ Features - Fully turn-based. Nothing moves until you press "Next month". - One formula drives every price: value = NOI / cap rate. You raise the NOI; the market sets the cap rate. - Rates and the economy move in cycles. Prices fall as well as rise. - From a used condo unit to apartments, condos for sale, logistics, hotels and city-center offices, with 6 exterior designs - Contractors differ in specialty, track record, temperament and quality. Pick lowest-price or best-value bidding. - Sites have traits: buried obstacles you only find by surveying or digging, deadline handovers, quirky sellers - Every seller has a situation. Read it and make your offer. - Borrowing grows up to non-recourse. Four banks, a main bank, credit crunches, and exchange rates that move in phases - Land tenders, merging lots, land-for-floors exchange, coin parking, rebuilds - Sell condos unit by unit; fees continue after sell-out - Property events: move-outs, complaints, change orders. Your answer changes the outcome. - Typhoons, floods and earthquakes, and insurance to match - Redevelopment, block development, and beyond No.1: new towns, sea cities and spaceports - District plans (new stations, universities, international events) move land and rents; rival towers compete - Old unrenovated buildings look dated, so renovation pays - Funds and REITs, group companies, overseas, IPO and shares - M&A by negotiation, with counter-bids. Keep firms as subsidiaries, or buy into other industries. - Earn beyond buying: property management, construction contracts, shared offices - A board of directors, labor unions and annual wage talks - Deposits and key money when tenants sign - Stage 6: vice-president portfolios, national projects, flagship towers in New York and Singapore - After No.1, rivals chase you and upstarts surge. How long can you hold the throne? - ZEB buildings, staff qualifications, real land prices and tax rules - A monthly report down to depreciation, tax and cash flow, free for all - Your properties glow vermilion on a living city map - A world ranking of about 220 companies, plus Game Center. Pay and HR work just as in BUILD EMPIRE. - Achievements, 3 save slots, iCloud sync, Japanese and English, bulk actions and stage goals ■ Pricing Free to play all the way through, with a banner ad. You can reach Stage 6 and world No.1 without paying. The one-time Premium (Deep mode) purchase removes ads and opens up finer control over decisions you already make. It does not give better listings or better loans. - Tenants - rent per unit, condo prices by floor, free rent, countering lease terms, deposit and key-money months, insurance options - Planning - B variants and themed exteriors; shared offices per floor - Management - property managers, contractors, energy retrofits, overseas buyers - Pay and HR - pay and bonus by grade, benefits design, qualification support - Banks and stocks - loan negotiations; investing in shares - Funds - private fund terms; timing and size of REIT offerings - Listed company - payout ratio, forecasts, shareholders' meeting, takeover defenses - Group companies - subsidiary pay and dividends - Overseas - an FX hedge per region No subscription. One payment, yours for good. Build your empire. More is coming in future updates. Share your ideas in a review.