Housing permits?

How do you get these? why is the ah 450k when in the menu it is 1 mil?

I believe a npc in each Residential Area sells it (the Estate Caretaker from what I remember), and it's an item that allows you to purchase a section of land (called a lot) for a house in a Residential Area. Unfortunately land is a limited resource and vacant lots have since all sold out on most servers (and especially so on Balmung).

There is a land reclamation function that was added to the game though where if a house's owner (either a FC or a single player) has not used their house in a certain amount of time (about 45 days if I remember right), the house and land is automatically repossessed, the house demolished and the land put up for sale again. Stormblood will apparently be getting a new residential area too for Ishgard so that will increase the availability of houses hopefully.

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

How do you get these? why is the ah 450k when in the menu it is 1 mil?

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You're mixing up the permits for a Cottage (Small) and a House (Medium). Cottage permits are 450k, House permits are 1m, and Mansion permits are 3m if I'm remembering my prices.

I don't understand why the permit isn't just baked into the price of the plot. I could understand if we had more leeway with construction, but since the permit has to match the size of the plot (you can't build a Small or Medium house on a Large plot, for example) it doesn't make any sense to me to have that extra step.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

I believe a npc in each Residential Area sells it (the Estate Caretaker from what I remember), and it's an item that allows you to purchase a section of land (called a lot) for a house in a Residential Area. Unfortunately land is a limited resource and vacant lots have since all sold out on most servers (and especially so on Balmung).

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This is not how it works, you don't need a permit to buy land. You can buy any lot that available if you have the gil to do it. The permit builds the house on the lot that you buy, otherwise you just buying a empty piece of land.

I just bought it from AH, i was being rushed and remember something about if you do not build on it, you lose it.

1 M is the charge from the menu but I bought one from the AH for 400k, well my friend i mean.

Still like to know why it is so much cheaper on the AH though

now there is one for 195k where do these things come from >< couldn't find anything online, damnit if only i was not being rushed

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

I just bought it from AH, i was being rushed and remember something about if you do not build on it, you lose it.

1 M is the charge from the menu but I bought one from the AH for 400k, well my friend i mean.

Still like to know why it is so much cheaper on the AH though

now there is one for 195k where do these things come from >< couldn't find anything online, damnit if only i was not being rushed

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You get them back when you demolish a house, so the people who give up their plot just want to get rid of their build permit. They sell them cheap because there aren't many buyers around.

Don't worry about the being rushed part. The auto-demolish takes over a month to finish and you only need to build a house in time to enter it before the demolish timer runs out. I think it took me a day or two to buy the permit after spending all my gil on the plot.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

You get them back when you demolish a house, so the people who give up their plot just want to get rid of their build permit. They sell them cheap because there aren't many buyers around.

Don't worry about the being rushed part. The auto-demolish takes over a month to finish and you only need to build a house in time to enter it before the demolish timer runs out. I think it took me a day or two to buy the permit after spending all my gil on the plot.

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that is the auto though, not the time you have to build on it, if you do not build on it for a set of time, like 1 day or 5 days or something, you lose it

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Originally Posted by Reinha

You get them back when you demolish a house, so the people who give up their plot just want to get rid of their build permit. They sell them cheap because there aren't many buyers around.

Don't worry about the being rushed part. The auto-demolish takes over a month to finish and you only need to build a house in time to enter it before the demolish timer runs out. I think it took me a day or two to buy the permit after spending all my gil on the plot.

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Actually if I recall correctly they set it where you have a few days or maybe a week to build on the plot you purchased I would need to look it up again to quote it. They did that to prevent people from simply buying and holding empty plots.

^ ya that, I doono what it is but it is not long
They really need some information more transparent ! UGH i googled for 20 mins and I couldn't find anything helpful with what i needed to know.

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

that is the auto though, not the time you have to build on it, if you do not build on it for a set of time, like 1 day or 5 days or something, you lose it

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You have plenty of time to build your house, it the same as the reclaim timer you have 45 days to build your house.

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Estates Subject to Demolishing
Free company housing that has not been accessed by at least one member within forty-five days.
Private housing that has not been accessed by the owner within forty-five days.
Purchased plots of land upon which an estate has not been built within forty-five days.

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3e7ccabefa9954

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

^ ya that, I doono what it is but it is not long
They really need some information more transparent ! UGH i googled for 20 mins and I couldn't find anything helpful with what i needed to know.

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Type in
"ffxiv housing reclaim"
it the first result on google

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Originally Posted by Lexia

You have plenty of time to build your house, it the same as the reclaim timer you have 45 days to build your house.



http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...3e7ccabefa9954



Type in
"ffxiv housing reclaim"
it the first result on google

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that is reclaim, not how long you have to build on an empty plot, i is something like a day to a week at most, I do not remember.

Also that is not all what i was referring to. I am talking about how the Housing permits work, if they really work second hand and how they appear on the AH, like that Reinha said (cept for confusing auto demolish with time you need to build on it)

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

that is reclaim, not how long you have to build on an empty plot, i is somethign like a day to a week at most, I do not remember.

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You have 45 days to build your house I put it in bold letters, directly from lodestone. Other then that I don't understand what you mean buy you only have a week to build your house? Cause there only one reclaim timer, I literally watched a plot sit empty with no house on it on balmung for a month one time. It was a plot I was watching before I ended up getting the house I have now at a different location.

I just bought a house last week. If you go to the plot you have purchased you can get everything you need from there. At least that's what I did. And I pretty sure it told me I had 45 days to add the house or I would lose the plot. I'm not 100% sure though as I was I'm a panic to do it too and may have read wrong.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

You have 45 days to build your house I put it in bold letters, directly from lodestone. Other then that I don't understand what you mean buy you only have a week to build your house? Cause there only one reclaim timer, I literally watched a plot sit empty with no house on it on balmung for a month one time. It was a plot I was watching before I ended up getting the house I have now at a different location.

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SE said somewhere you need to build a house within a short time otherwise it will be reclaimed!

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Originally Posted by AmalonStar

Actually if I recall correctly they set it where you have a few days or maybe a week to build on the plot you purchased I would need to look it up again to quote it. They did that to prevent people from simply buying and holding empty plots.

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Originally Posted by Parisstilton

I just bought a house last week. If you go to the plot you have purchased you can get everything you need from there. At least that's what I did. And I pretty sure it told me I had 45 days to add the house or I would lose the plot. I'm not 100% sure though as I was I'm a panic to do it too and may have read wrong.

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for 1 mil, well least I said some money buying it for 400k =/ How did you get a house on Balmung anyway? what size?

The auto-demolish feature is the only reason you must build a house. Such a time limit did not exist before the auto-demolish was implemented and since then no other patch notes have mentioned a need to build house on a plot sooner than within 45 days.

Resetting the auto-demolish timer requires entering the house so it wasn't really necessary to spell out the need to build one. I guess SE wanted to further clarify how the feature works.

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

SE said somewhere you need to build a house within a short time otherwise it will be reclaimed!

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Well until you can provide a link or exact quote from SE about it, I will go by the information that SE does provide on their website. Provide this information and I will concede.

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Originally Posted by Ama_Hamada

SE said somewhere you need to build a house within a short time otherwise it will be reclaimed!





for 1 mil, well least I said some money buying it for 400k =/ How did you get a house on Balmung anyway? what size?

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Yup you have a period of time to build the house or the land is reclaimed. Like I said before I just did everything from the plot. I didn't need to go anywhere else.
It was a small house that had been demoed. Once I had enough money to buy a small (which was all I wanted) and the permit. I decided I wanted lavender beds then basically every hour on the hour I was ready at the aetheryte to see if anything came up. Literally all I did for 3 weeks was stand in gridania lol. It was worth it though :)

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Stormblood will apparently be getting a new residential area too for Ishgard so that will increase the availability of houses hopefully.

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Unless SE will implement a rule of some sort where people can only possess one house per account, or be a certain level to purchase a house, the only ones getting a house in the expansion will be people who just want to prevent others from getting a house. Sure, apartments are a good idea. But it's not a fix, nor does it solve the problem of people with 500m+ gil who make multiple characters/accounts to buy all the houses. Everyone wants more than a little room to decorate. Back in 2.x, they changes small houses to have basements because of the limited space small houses had back then.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

This is not how it works, you don't need a permit to buy land. You can buy any lot that available if you have the gil to do it. The permit builds the house on the lot that you buy, otherwise you just buying a empty piece of land.

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Oh that's right! I'm sorry, it has been ages since my FC gained it's house so I completely forgot how the system worked (not to mention I let my boyfriend handle all the paperwork :p). Thank you for clarifying that. :)

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Originally Posted by Mocita

Unless SE will implement a rule of some sort where people can only possess one house per account, or be a certain level to purchase a house, the only ones getting a house in the expansion will be people who just want to prevent others from getting a house. Sure, apartments are a good idea. But it's not a fix, nor does it solve the problem of people with 500m+ gil who make multiple characters/accounts to buy all the houses. Everyone wants more than a little room to decorate. Back in 2.x, they changes small houses to have basements because of the limited space small houses had back then.

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Although you are definitely right, I wanted to avoid getting into the negativity surrounding the housing system and it's issues and hence why I did not mention it.

Also in regards to basements it was my understanding that the original idea behind their addition was that was where the company workshop was meant to go, which naturally did not occur (workshops instead became a separate instance accessed from the same door private chambers are accessed from). Not that the extra space was unwelcomed of course (all house sizes gained basements, including mansions). :)

Not sure where people are getting that you only have a small amount of time to build the house after buying the plot. You have 45 days as already quoted from SE by Lexia on the previous page.

There's only one demolition counter and it counts how many days since you stepped inside your house. No house, impossible to step inside, so it's the 45 days since you bought the plot.

It's possible to buy the permit from the plot itself (from the placard I believe?) but sometimes people will sell them cheaper on the market board. There is no real rush once you've bought the plot, you have 45 days to build the house.

I recently moved from a small in the Goblet to a small in Mist, but when I relinquished the house and got the permit back, I couldn't use it in Mist (housing area specific), so I listed it on the market board for 350k and it sold within a day. That person saved 100k off the default price and I got some money back (even better since I'd relinquished the house losing the money for that rather than wait for autodemolition). Win/win.

If I remember correctly you had a timeframe in which you had to build your house back when they introduced housing - dont ask me how long that was though, thats what... like 3 years back?
Since its stated on the website differently now, I would assume they got rid of that and there is only the 45 day counter in place!
Hope this helps to settle the confusion - its just outdated information that you have a second timer to build your home!