I'm not sure why you think that buying and selling housing between players is, in and of itself, bad. I don't like that players will be able to "flip" houses in 3.3, but while I suspect there may be a few bans for it (mostly because of people discussing details of the transaction in-game), most of the transactions will go through without incident. After that, it's already too late. Short of implementing unlimited housing, there's very little SQEX can do to stop people from selling plots.

Yes, I support unlimited housing. This, however, isn't coming in the near future - the only thing on the horizon that might help is Apartments, which currently don't have yards (or balconies - hint, hint) and thus can't be used for gardening or raising/dyeing your chocobo. If a proper indoor planter or the ability to have a miniature garden patch in your apartment is implemented, and Apartments are either unlimited or so numerous that they might as well be, then this idea can be tabled indefinitely (you can always either marry someone with a house or join an FC that has a house in order to do stuff with your chocobo).

--Erim Nelhah