That all seems like quite a generalisation, but I don't know enough of the players who own housing to refute your statement. I certainly don't personally condone selling housing for real money, but I've no experience with that happening either.

Housing (and also apartments) are a limited resource, but the players who managed to get any housing at all (be it single or multiple) had the same chances as everyone else, there was no favouritism from Square Enix.[/QUOTE]

My FC knows plenty to see this to the point we made a point to own only ONE so others can have one. The FC leader who we beat and tried to get us banned was working on his 8th plot for no reason but he wanted it. This was our first Plot and the condoning attitude for this practice only encourages it, while it may be in secret, houses are being flipped still on my server and mass amounts of plots horded by FCs of dubious origins.