I would say maybe just don't try to get a house as soon as transfers open up. It'll die down once people get houses and stop playing the game again. Before housing demo was off, smalls all over the place were at 1.4 mil aka were sitting there forever. Wait for that, buy a small, relocate when your dream plot pops up. Yeah the system sucks when everyone wants housing, but people would complain no matter what system was there tbh.