While I love this game, I absolutely hate the housing system in this game. The lack of meaningful solutions by the XIV team compounds this. Two issues I see that are most needing attention:

1) Artificial lack of availability
2) Multiple plots owned by a single account

Solutions to these are below:

1) Solution: Make more Wards. There needs to be at least 20-30 Wards (preferably 30) per residential area and open new Wards as old ones are completely populated as was done with apartments. While it may seem excessive to flood the market with housing plots, this will effectively kill the incentive for house flipping and curtail a black market that frankly should not have ever existed in the first place.


2) Solution: Enforce an account-wide limit of 1 Personal House and 1 FC House (if they are the FC Leader) per account. This way individual accounts are not hoarding houses between their multiple characters and fostering a real estate black market. Also See Solution #1