What should I know about housing?

[worldofneil]

1. How many houses can a fc or individual own at 1 time?

Each character can own one FC house AND one personal house. So potentially a service account with 8 characters on the same world could own 16 houses (8 of each type), if all of them meet the relevant requirements.

2. What does the red names & green names mean on the ward lists?

Green house is open/can walk inside, red it's locked, the public can't enter.

3. If a fc decides to upgrade to bigger house as it stands currently they would have to relinquish rights, wait 45 days being homeless so to speak before they can even purchase?

Not entirely true. If they want to get 80% of the money back then yes they have to wait 45 days. If they don't want the money back they can relinquish straight away.

4. How many people can you share a house with?

A personal home, 3 extra tenants, but they don't reset the demolition timer, only the owner entering the house will do that.
An FC home, as many as the FC can hold (512 I believe)

Edit: An FC home also has considerably more advanced permissions system, the personal homes only have three options, use garden, use orchestrion, arrange furniture (someone with none of those permissions only has accept to the teleport/house entry)

5. Can you claim housing items without actually owning a house, without them sitting in inventory, or retainers space?

No, housing items are still items, they need to be stored somewhere like all normal items (inventory, company chest, retainer).

6. Let's say hypothetically you own a medium house with the furnishings set limit of being 200 (I think)does that mean if own 300 furnishing you can only display 200 or will it just not let you claim more than 200?

You can own more, you just can't place them inside the house. I think I understand your previous question better now, houses are like a form of inventory, they have limited "spaces" (inside and outside) and you can only place as many as the size of the house you are in. Trying to place (move from you inventory into the "houses" inventory) more than you can results in an error message.

7. I know their adding apartments in the next patch but tbh I'm not interested in that, is there a set time frame to add more wards, or more locations or is it just if they feel it's needed? In other words how much longer do we have until they add more?

There hasn't been any information on any additional wards and since it took approximately 18 months for these wards (from memory since last wards?), I feel fairly confident in saying it'll probably be at least another year before we see more. However I don't work for SE so hopefully I'm wrong!

[coco1851]

There hasn't been any information on any additional wards and since it took approximately 18 months for these wards (from memory since last wards?), I feel fairly confident in saying it'll probably be at least another year before we see more. However I don't work for SE so hopefully I'm wrong!

Thank you! You've been a huge help! 1 more question, When you look at the list of wards it's says if there are any available & how much it costs is there any way to tell if a house is coming back to the market to buy?

[worldofneil]

Nope sorry, no way to tell. We don't see any countdown as to when, it's either available or it's not. Gotta keep checking it. Housing demolition turns back on next week on the 19th July, so probably 45 days after that houses will start appearing again.