Your patience is rewarded

[Balmung_Griffin]

What's the problem of having instanced housing alongside existing wards?
Don't we already have apartments?

I'm sorry but it's easy to say you're enjoying when you have a house.
There's lot of FC and players that are trying for years and no luck.

[Illmaeran]

What's the problem of having instanced housing alongside existing wards?
Don't we already have apartments?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with instanced housing in addition to wards. In fact, I believe it's a necessary addition to the game and would personally love being able to upgrade the floor plan of my apartment to that of an existing house. I'd be more than happy to pay the current full price of the ward house of the corresponding size to get this.

Adding actual housing options with interior decorating as ward houses have now to Island Sanctuaries would be an awesome. Hell, I wouldn't even begrudge the money I spent on a ward house if they made actual housing on Island Sanctuaries free for all comers.

[Valfreyja]

Limited number of small apartments.

And because the instance server can't handle it all. It is already running every dungeon/raid/trial that goes on simultaneously, plus all the apartments, private chambers, housing interiors, etc.