One new ward per area was really not enough >_<..!
I am the first to log in in my free company since the patch, and took the gil from the chest to see if I could reserve us a house at last, but only to find out all the small plots in the new wards were already taken...!
We are a very small FC, so we don't have money to get anything more than a small house. I honestly didn't expect people would buy the plots this early without waiting for the price to drop a little first, but I guess others just make fast money than we do.
Now the real question is, when will more wards be added?
EDIT: As a side note, since I know a lot of people made 1-person FCs to get their own small house... Is there anyone on Balmung who would be considering selling their small house and get instead a private room in someone else's FC? It's a shot in the dark, but I guess it's worth asking.