Why isn't housing priced higher? (why is housing random luck)

[Altena]

Honestly the whole "rich buying plots to sell for more later" comes from SE's poorly designed system of not being able to sell off your land to other players in a hard coded system.

I am sure a lot of people would be willing to put their plot up for sale if the minimum price was hardcoded. Players should be able to "put their plot up for sale", however the easiest way around it would be to cap the price at the maximum for the plot, or simply hard-code it similar to how plot prices depreciate while they are on the "market".

For example.. (using the 3.3 prices just to make it easy).
House owner of a Mansion wants to sell their house, and flag it as "For Sale".
House buyer can immediatly buy it for max price (50 mil), and house seller receives the minimum price for the plot (25 mil). 25 mil goes in the sink.
The longer the house is "for sale" the more it depreciates, until hitting the minimum price (25mil).

Basically the difference between the minimum and the actual purchase price disappears into the sink, and the original home owner gets the minimum price back for their land, regardless how long it takes to sell..

What would this mean? Seller gets the minimum price for the plot back, buyer only spends as much as they should (if they were to buy a new plot from the server). Only difference is the amount of gil that gets sunk is smaller.

I believe this system is better as it doesn't totally stuff over the buyer by having to effectively pay double, the seller still gets a portion of what they paid back, and it would encourage more plot fluctuations when people come and go from the game which would potentially end up being a better gil sink as this would be more frequent then someone completely relinquishing their house or risking the ban hammer for selling..

Basically my point is a lot of the problems come from the system itself. They could simply improve the buying/selling system where none of these issues would be a problem, and there wouldn't be anything to ban in the first place - as the system could quite easily be fair for all parties involved, and still sink some gil in the process.