Sandbox Land

[sajaST]

I went to a sandbox piece of land and rezzed a box onto it did my thing and decided to look around to see how large the land was (really large) and who owned it. I noticed that Governor Linden owned it but there are some scattered houses on it. Some of the land with houses on it are still owned by Governor Linden and other small pieces of the land are owned by residents. I'm just wondering how some of these residents were able to buy a piece of land there on the sandbox. 

[LittleMe Jewell]

Possibly the houses you saw scattered were other folks simply using the sandbox to check out houses or work on building houses or a multitude of other things people use sandboxes for.

As to the pieces owned by others, those lands are simply not part of the sandbox.  They probably owned the land before the sandbox was created from the other land.