Quote Originally Posted by gbe931 View Post

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
I'm for both solutions. Of course, you'll get naysayers saying they shouldn't do that (for the 2nd option) but they're the minority and probably house hoarders/flippers.

Also, S-E hasn't made any mentions (AFAIK) about future housing options other than "lack of servers" and "not enough resources". The apartments were a band-aid solution as nice as they are, but they still lack a ton of functionality for those who wish to take advantage of them. The other side of the situation is I notice only community mods or devs will only address things like this if they have some kind of plan in place.