I dont know about other people's servers but our servers Ah is getting better. People know the housing prices now and some just stopped saving or caring so they are spending again. The materia market is crazy good right now.

My FC does maps every day, we do any where from 8-12 maps depending on the people we have. The bank is very, very good. On average we get 1-2 maps worth 5.2k, the rest are 1600 gil. People need to remember to fill the party up, dont 6 or 7 man it even though you can, the gil distributed is a set amount, taking all 8 people is key. The mats we cant sell are being stocked in the FC chest for crafters. I really thought that getting a house would take forever, but for our small FC (24 raiders) we will have enough for a medium size house in about a month, and we only started out with 1.7 million (our final housing price is 17 million). I dont think waiting 2 months for a place is bad at all.