House plot class rank?

[Avidria]

It's just better locations. Waterfront, close to shops, etc... costs more. The plots are functionally identical.
Here's a map of grades




can see all the grade 1 is waterfront, the highest grade mansion is the one next to the hotspring,

Yeah some of them just seem super odd. Like in that pic... a large by the water right next to a market board is rank 4. What? I mean just... Huh??? Even the hot spring one doesn't rate a 1 or 2 haha.

I dunno, just kinda funny to me. Guess it's a little subjective. :P

Thanks for the reference though!

[Nihility]

Yeah some of them just seem super odd. Like in that pic... a large by the water right next to a market board is rank 4. What? I mean just... Huh??? Even the hot spring one doesn't rate a 1 or 2 haha.

I dunno, just kinda funny to me. Guess it's a little subjective. :P

Thanks for the reference though!

That doesn't really mean anything. Just a quirk in this particular map
There's only 3 large plots per district so you can't have 1,2,3,4,5 so this mapmaker went with 3,4,5 instead of 1,2,3

the top grade mansion in kugane is the one next to a hidden mountain hotspring
The second one is the waterfront
and the third is in the back one that's sort of in a bamboo forest

The houses are more appropriately marked
The top tier houses are all beachfront with the second tier mansion(first tier mansion is kind of an extra special spot in the kugane map can think of it like tier 0 for comparisons sake), one of them is higher up on the cliff but is right next to the access tunnel for the isolated beach
the second tier house is just one row back from the beach
the third tier house is up in the bamboo forest with the third tier mansion
the fourth tier house looks like it's same as third on the map but it's actually a level down so it's up against a cliff instead of bamboo forest
and the fifth tier house looks like it's near the top tier mansion but it's like tucked in a back corner with cliff face on three sides of it

It all makes sense for the most part. Close access to special map features is a big factor in the ranking. Obstructed sides is a big factor in lower rankings
I suppose the only thing in Kugane that might throw people is those that prefer the bamboo might argue third tier lacks the prestige it deserves