According to Yoshi-P if given a choice between the two options...

[YuriRamona]

#1 is actually a lie, they simply wanted the legacy servers to buy the property to remove the gilz, and so far only 1 (small) property has been bought on Durandal, it's really nice to know that 99% of the monthly subscription fee to pay for the hardware to support the servers is all being used by 1 guild on Durandal.

Housing is not priced expensively because they want to remove gil. It was priced expensively to prevent a majority of FCs from bumrushing the new areas, filling the new hardware to capacity, and potentially causing problems with stability or delay.

This is what was implied by the first post. These options existed only because the root cause, the real reason behind the outrageous pricing was because they lacked the capacity to do so.

[Nova_Dresden]

Housing is not priced expensively because they want to remove gil. It was priced expensively to prevent a majority of FCs from bumrushing the new areas, filling the new hardware to capacity, and potentially causing problems with stability or delay.

They were priced high because every server had multiple players with excessive amounts of gil they were worried were going to buy out all of the plots. We just got screwed over because some players had way too much money and we have to wait out the timer for acceptable pricing.