For everyone who's against this, you do realise that the alternative to the new system is what we have now, which basically prevent anyone from buying a house ever again unless someone voluntarily demolishes theirs? SE cannot simply add more servers and network beef to cope with this, or at least they won't for some time to come. Housing is likely one of the most resource-intensive parts of this game and yet a large part of it isn't used by active players. That is simply wrong, and they're trying to fix that.