Land Taxes

[Masekase_Hurricane]

One FC house and personal house per account problem solved no need for adding a tax. Although this will still not solve the problem it will just ease it slightly. The fix is for SE to add more houses, add instanced housing and actually create an official route to sell houses.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Just to note, Land Taxes, as suggested, would do little to stop those who buy/flip houses but put an onerous burden on everyone else. The people most likely to buy/flip houses are exceptionally wealthy players and such taxes would provide very little in the way of a barrier to them. On the other hand, more casual players who don't accrue gil quite so quickly would find owning a house even more of a financial burden than the initial purchase. In short a monthly land tax does nothing to help a lack of housing outside of making it harder for the less wealthy players to own a house.

[Tint]

yess, the only thing i can imagine will happen is that the house sellers will increase the price. the house flipper who buys a house today and sells it tomorrow will throw another 10 mio onto the pricetag to compensate for all the taxes he has paid. and the naive house buyer will give him these additional 10 mio...

[MomomiMomi]

If you want to stop flipping, it's as simple as making the reverse auction work the way it was originally intended; start with prices so high that houses don't get snatched up immediately. If a small house starts at 50M, nobody is going to flip it, and they end up selling for the price that the player base values them at.

Yeah, as I've also stated countless times, this would solve flipping. The prices should be starting at about 10x their current max value and drop to their current minimum.