Sure plots are available sometimes, that's very true. What the OP is trying to say is however, it should be possible for every player to get a house easily..not having to wait or stalk the ward list just to try and ninja one the moment it demos.

I have always said that SE should have and still should re-do housing as instance based. Why? Because it's simple..and it's resource friendly. Take a look at Black Desert Online. EVERY place you can have a house is instanced. Multiple people have the same house in the same spot--you open a menu when you click the door to the list of players who have bought that house and you can visit them (a lot like private rooms/apartment rooms). You can own up to 5 residences in that game..now that isn't really necessary here but my point is any player no matter the server can have a house of their own. Will everybody see your cool yard? maybe not..but you can have a yard.

I fully support the idea of instanced personal housing. I think it'd be cool if FCs still kept the wards. Also I think that if everything was merged to one ward, it'd be cool if u could set whose house you see when you run around it or if it set to "last house visited" so you see the houses in the ward belonging to players that you have visited or even simply interacted with.