House relocating

[Solica]

Is there any info about how will house relocating work? For example, my fc owns a small house in the Mists and we were planning to upgrade to a mansion. Will it be possible to relocate to a bigger plot or do we need to sell it and go for a new purchace?

[Khemorex]

not that im aware off , but they are probably gona give more infos in the live letter part 2.

[worldofneil]

From various live letters, don't sell/remove your old house. You just click the placard of the new house and there's a move option. If it's the same which automates purchase and demolition in one go. It will cost you the full price of the new plot and you get nothing back for the old one.

FC rooms and workshop get transferred over as-is.

If the house sizes are different the items go into storage.

[KasumiCascade]

It will cost you the full price of the new plot and you get nothing back for the old one.

...This is only the case for an increase in plot size, correct? I can't find any source on prices with the moving feature but I've been dying to move my medium in the Lav Beds to a medium in the Mist. It also wouldn't make sense for those planning on moving to a same-size plot in Shirogane.

[Arutan]

He means nothing back price side, like if you paid your previous house at a higher price than your new one you don't get anything.

[KasumiCascade]

Ah okay, that makes more sense to me. Thank you!

[Solica]

So, if you move from a small or medium plot to a large plot, you pay full price on the large plot? Or does it lower the cost of the large plot?

[Caitlinzulu]

As I understand it and i even believe i read something about it in an official announcement, house moving would work like this, you empty your old one, but not release the plot. The you buy the new plot you want to move to, buy as in full price anyone would pay, a house moving option would pop up.

This may have changed though so the only way to be shure is to read the 4.1 patch notes or perhaps we will get more info in the the second part of the 4.1 announcement

[Altena]

The major question I have about this is will we be required to empty our house (furnishings etc) beforehand?

I recall this being the case if you wanted to demolish private rooms before leaving an FC - you had to empty it first..

Is this still the case? Will we need to find 400 inventory slots before 4.1 to store all our furnishings?

I know no one knows the answer yet.. But I am hoping we get one before 4.1, so we don't go to relocate and find out we have to remove everything manually.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

From what they said during fanfest, it sounds like if you were to relocate from say, a small to a large, everything in your small is copied over to the large entirely. You may need to redo the outside since obviously that wouldn't copy but I recall it supposedly being rather seamless. Price why though, I kinda doubt they calculate the value of whatever sized house you had previously since they like housing to be a gil sink.