How many people have multiple houses?

[Claviusnex]

When did you buy your house? This is promising information but depending on how long ago it was it may no longer be true. From my understanding you are basically waiting on plots to be abandon and with large amount of people coming back to the game for the expansion the turnover is going to be a lot lower. Also you will have a lot more people looking to buy so houses wont stay up for long.

It would have been late last year so things could have changed with the new release bringing in more players. I also have no doubt that getting a house is near impossible on the high population servers. I guess the real question will be if the returning players that purchase housing are really long term or will they be gone once they've maxed everything out? I won't pretend to know the answer nor even attempt an opinion on it. I haven't taken a walk around for a while so maybe I will do that to see what things look like now that SB is out.

I'm not a house hoarder so have no issues with SE putting restrictions on the number of houses someone owns. I would be concerned if they don't allow some type of overlap for players that want to move to a new house. Let's say something like a 30 day window to decide which one you'll keep and which one you will release. I will say that even though it is the cause of all the problems I do like the neighborhood nature of the current housing areas. I understand this in not supportable for the large number of people that would like houses but hope they could be grandfathered in under any new housing scheme.

As Kosmos said they could tack on additional time after it's relinquished. In addition they could make it so you can't purchase additional homes for a certain period of time after relinquishing an estate, unless moving servers.

There should be some mechanism to be able to relocate on the same server. Something like you own a house and are allowed to buy one more. Then within 30 days you have to pick one to keep and release the other or the system will return one back to the pool automatically.