First article about the House pricing.

[ZephyrAM]

if you at least could get a house by buying it for real money on moggle station for those who want a house but never will have enough gil to afford one, all this will just help illegal gold sellers , great job SE for supporting people exploiting your game for own profits instead of support people who pay for your services

If people are willing to turn to RMT, then they're going to do it no matter how far out of their gil price range something it, be it 10% or 500%. Dropping the price over the worry of RMT would just have the same people using the FC housing as individual housing, because they could.

Housing is a vanity addition: it's in no way needed to fully experience and play the game. This is like excusing a person for stealing and blaming the company instead because said person couldn't otherwise afford the 70 inch TV.