I believe they stated that not all wards will be Lottery-locked. I decide to take that as a "Some wards will be the old system, while some with be the new" until they can find a true middle-ground.

With that in mind, I imagine one can easily instant-relocate to *some* of the houses in the first couple of wards, while the others are forced into a lottery system for new house buyers to have their shot.

Either way, there will be more houses and the % chance of new buyers getting into the market is going to be quite high when 6.1 drops.