Quote Originally Posted by Trobon View Post
Anyone who buys a house off the “black market,” as you are calling it, must have already owned a house to begin with in order to relocate and skip the placard wait time. So when this happens a house opens up either way (the one being relocated from) and anyone has a chance to get it.
This is not always true. You can purchase a FC that owns a house. They then relinquish that FC to you and voila - you now have an FC with a house. This is how some people have almost an entire ward of houses that are FCs. There is a player that is notorious for doing this with alts (I can't for the life of me remember what server they play on, but I know it's on one of the NA data centers.)