Virtual Properties

At its core, Upland is a city-builder and property trading game. Properties and their location are the foundation of the world. Buying, trading, flipping, completing collections, building neighborhoods, and discovering opportunities across the map remain central to what makes Upland unique.

Property Types

There is a property color coding that helps you to navigate faster through the map:

  • Grey: Property owned by another player and not for sale.
  • White: Property unminted, but out of range. Move your block explorer closer to mint it. Properties marked with an FSA marker can only be minted by Visitors and Uplanders.
  • Light green: Property unminted and within range of your block explorer. Visitors and Uplanders can mint any light green property, while players of all other statuses cannot mint light green properties marked FSA.
  • Dark green: Property owned by another player and listed for sale. Anyone can purchase it immediately, even if it is marked FSA.
  • Grey with blue border: Property owned by you.
  • Dark Grey: These are locked, unminted properties that have not yet been released.

The Fair Start Act (FSA) keeps Upland accessible to new players. It reserves a share of lower-priced, unminted properties for newcomers, allowing them to mint affordable land before competing with more established players. Only players below a set net-worth threshold—Visitors and Uplanders—can mint FSA-designated properties directly, though anyone can buy an FSA property that another player has listed for sale. The proportion of FSA inventory varies by city tier, from a smaller share in high-end cities to the majority in dedicated starter cities. To ensure these properties reach genuine new players, caps define how many FSA properties a single account can mint over its lifetime.

Property Transactions

Buying

  • Tap any property on the map to see its listing.
  • Pay with UPX (and where eligible, with USD).
  • Make an offer on any property — listed or not. Your UPX sits in escrow until the owner accepts, rejects, or you withdraw the offer.

Selling

  • Open your property → List for Sale.
  • Set a UPX price. Where eligible, list for USD too — see "Selling for USD" in the Trade & Earn section.
  • Wait, accept an offer, or relist at a new price.

Fees

Marketplace transactions carry a 10% community contribution fee, split 5% buyer / 5% seller. USD sales add a 5% withdrawal fee to the seller through Thunes. Fess can be subject to changes by the Upland operator.