If it's against ToS, it seems counterintuitive to me. Housing should be just like other in-game commodity and able to be sold/traded for in-game currency or items. If run-selling is legal, why wouldn't selling housing be?

Btw, I don't have any stake in this. I didn't buy my housing from another player nor do I plan on selling what I do have. My FC has a mansion and I have a small personal house. If I DID sell a house, it would be my small house so I could upgrade to a better house. It seems really weird if that would be against the game's rules.

That being said, I understand people's outrage. A lot of players can't get housing at all and some players are making a fortune flipping houses. I personally don't have a problem with it because I think it's just like playing any other kind of market. Once housing is added in Ishgard and increased elsewhere, demand should go down, and the people trying to flip houses will be stuck with them or take a loss. This risk seems fair. The important point is that, as always, players have options: buy now and pay whatever crazy price someone is asking or be patient and wait for more housing. This is the same option that consumers have for virtually any product by the way.

Lastly, the main reason I care about my personal house is to have increased gardening options. If SE adds a feature to allow players to garden without a house, a lot of us might give up our houses to players who want them for other reasons.