Originally Posted by
DotsNnots
Not trying to interject an opinion one way or another, but allowing relocation does literally nothing to the quantity of houses available on the market. If there are 50 houses currently available and player A upgrades their personal cottage in goblet to a mansion in shirogane, there's still 50 houses available, they haven't taken anything away. In terms of wanting FCs to grab houses, the point is to be able to allow them to access that additional content (workshop/ship missions), the size of the house doesn't restrict that content.
Now to digress off my point, yeah that means relocaters can try and snatch really good plots an FC might have wanted, but it's not taking an actual house away, it's just taking a "really nice" house away in exchange for a smaller one. Take from that what you will!