When the NA demolish timer goes back...

[Jojoya]

You're going to have 2 sources for available housing once the demo timer is reactivated since it's occurring at the same time as the data center reorganization.

For the first 2 weeks, you're going to see many houses become available due to players transferring to other worlds during the free transfer period. Few of the house openings during this period are likely to be due to demolition.

Once the free transfer period ends, you'll see a trickle of house becoming available via demolition for about 4 weeks. Once 45 days has passed since the timer was reactivated, you'll see a flood of houses open up as those would be houses owned by players who quit after the timer was suspended.

[Shougun]

Once the free transfer period ends, you'll see a trickle of house becoming available via demolition for about 4 weeks. Once 45 days has passed since the timer was reactivated, you'll see a flood of houses open up as those would be houses owned by players who quit after the timer was suspended.

Wanted to emphasize Dustytome's point though since OP seems to be a first time buyer: "If you're a new buyer, you'll still have to deal with the rng buffer before before the plot is available for a fresh purchase.".

So depending on the area and size of the server certain areas will not be a flood for them if they're not prepared (like I imagine some houses opening on Shirogane Balmung and then closing within literal seconds, first time buyer will not have a hope).

(For OP) If you own a house you can transfer into another house and if you don't there is a period of time that a house isn't available for purchase even if it's technically not taken, so if you've had your eye on Shirogane housing or other desirable lots (medium/large/certain spots) it can be helpful to go pick up a small first (if even possible). If gil isn't tight at least. Usually Goblet is the least desired area so a nice place to start looking for a transfer home. The Goblet smalls being more likely to open up due to people using them often as a transfer house, also wouldn't recommend getting a medium or large as a transfer house unless gil is not a concern lol.

If you don't care about your server you can pick any house up and then use the upcoming free transfer to get some money lol. Going to a smaller server can help find more houses as well, just keep in mind many FC features will not work when you're not on it's home server and other restrictions like which market you can sell from. You cannot relocate an apartment to a house so only pick one up if you wanted it in the first place or wanted the server gil transfer bonus (can't transfer from apartment to apartment either for that matter, at least last I checked).

Another tip is if you have friends in certain housing areas you can use them for a cheap teleport to that area, might help out with house checking . Otherwise you can check each neighboring city's aethernet and access them from there, at least after you complete introduction quests for the areas. Like you can teleport to The Goblet from Uldah's network (when you click on the big or small athertyes in the city).