RMT in housing...

[Jojoya]

It's listed under prohibited activity: "Purchasing a plot of land with the intent to resell it."

https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...la=1&kid=68216

That's going to be a part of the problem - proving the original purchase was made with the intent to resell.

If a FC and its house sit mainly dormant between the time of house purchase and change of FC Master (or only activity is to add a new member that becomes FC Master after the 30 day wait), then that's a strong case for intent to resell.

If it's been an active FC for several months/years after purchase with the house getting used, then there's no evidence the purchase was made with the intent to resell.

Up to you to interpret it however you wish with whatever scenario you wish to muster up, be it current or future intent to resell it base on circumstances. I feel that all plots of land when relinquished should go back to the system for the next plot owner and not be allowed to line anyone's pockets for a system to work fairly. If these excuses were actually the case, then PF would be full of houses for resell. Rarely if ever these days do you see one in PF. Instead players with full intent decided to take another avenue and do it outside the game through a discord channel or reddit. So yeah just like with many other things against ToS, players take a different more questionable approach that goes beyond SE's reach.

PF isn't currently full of houses for resell because it's too hard to get a house and established FCs aren't interested in selling (it's a non-issue in the case of personal houses now that relocation doesn't bypass the lottery or purchase timer). We talk about shell FCs being a problem for resale but the vast majority of them are created for personal use, not for resale purposes.

Once the new NA and EU worlds are added and we're about 30 days out from when their housing will open, you'll probably start seeing some listings in PF again from FCs that want to transfer to the new worlds and need to do it in advance of housing opening dates. SE sees nothing wrong with players selling established FCs to other players to save them some effort. The objection is creating a FC solely to purchase houses for resale.