Add feature for selling housing plots on the Market Board

[Sirren]

I was wondering if it would be possible for SE to add a feature to sell houses along with the land plot on the market board.

[Canadane]

According to a GM, selling a house is actually an actionable offense.
I guess the rules are, if you wanna give up your house, you're not getting anything out of it.

Edit: My source is this topic here which links to some reddit post which links to this image.

[Ardent_Dawn]

According to a GM, selling a house is actually an actionable offense.
I guess the rules are, if you wanna give up your house, you're not getting anything out of it.

Edit: My source is this topic here which links to some reddit post which links to this image.

That is an isolated incident that for all appearances is miscommunication at its finest. I'd take this with a grain of salt until confirmed by an official response through these forums or through a support ticket, because selling relinquishment rights is not in violation of the Terms of Service. It doesn't involve RMT.

This is also different than what Sirren is suggesting, which would involve them selling the house and the plot instead of just the relinquishment rights. Though I can see a lot of corruption happening through this, I think if they limited homes to one per server, they might be able to stop people from becoming realtors that buy up properties and then sell them at a premium. Even then, with the lack of housing on some servers, this could still be done. It's a nice idea, but they need to address housing shortages before anything else can properly be looked into and that would likely involve them reworking it entirely. That seems unlikely, sadly.

[Arrelaine]

It would be nice if we got an 'official' stance on this. I could see why they wouldn't want you to, scams are rampant and it's a lot of work for GMs and staff to fix. Also, the economy for relinquishing plots, even if you were to have an MB category for it, would be crap because all of the people who have a ton a gil can buy up more than one house, sell it, buy from another relinquisher, then sell that one for way more. Even if they do 'one per server', they could still sell it, buy another one and keep going. The demand currently allows for them to continue to bump up the market each time.

[Welsper59]

It would be nice if we got an 'official' stance on this. I could see why they wouldn't want you to, scams are rampant and it's a lot of work for GMs and staff to fix. Also, the economy for relinquishing plots, even if you were to have an MB category for it, would be crap because all of the people who have a ton a gil can buy up more than one house, sell it, buy from another relinquisher, then sell that one for way more. Even if they do 'one per server', they could still sell it, buy another one and keep going. The demand currently allows for them to continue to bump up the market each time.

The fact that it's so easy to understand why they wouldn't want you to, is likely the very reason why no response is going to come lol.