Couple housing questions

[Otega]

Returning to the game, but never owned a house in the past, so had a couple quick questions...

1) Can you tell from the Ferry Skipper if a house is in/going to demo? If not, is there a way to tell, or do you just have to stumble across an already demoed lot?

2) what was the approx date when they turned off demo houses due to the natural disaster? (I've read a little bit about this, and am hoping to catch a house once the reset is up).

Thanks in advance

Ot

[Layhe]

Once you unlock a residential district, you just need to go to the aetheryte for that area to check all the wards and plots. Nothing tells you when it's going up for sale only that it is for sale. Once it's up for sale though there's a RNG timer applied that will prevent people from buying it until it ticks over. The timer is completely random and can stop at any second.

As for the turning off of demolition, that was back in October of last year. They just turned it on again recently. Within this week will be the first 45 days since reactivation, so some houses should get demolished.

[Canadane]

The demolition was paused, not restarted.
So it being 45 days-ish from the restart is not actually all that significant. If someone had 2 days left back when they paused it, they had 2 days left back in October when they started it.

[Otega]

Once you unlock a residential district, you just need to go to the aetheryte for that area to check all the wards and plots. Nothing tells you when it's going up for sale only that it is for sale. Once it's up for sale though there's a RNG timer applied that will prevent people from buying it until it ticks over. The timer is completely random and can stop at any second.

As for the turning off of demolition, that was back in October of last year. They just turned it on again recently. Within this week will be the first 45 days since reactivation, so some houses should get demolished.

Thanks, appreciate the response!

[Layhe]

The demolition was paused, not restarted.
So it being 45 days-ish from the restart is not actually all that significant. If someone had 2 days left back when they paused it, they had 2 days left back in October when they started it.

This is true, but it also still gave those people plenty of time to step back into their house which resets the timer, even while it's paused.

[Frizze]

Its significant in that anyone who reset their timer during the pause but stopped playing during the roughly 6 months the timer was off will have their house demo in the next few days. Its not as significant as it could be since houses have been going on and off ever since the timer was unpaused.

[MizArai]

The demolition was paused, not restarted.
So it being 45 days-ish from the restart is not actually all that significant. If someone had 2 days left back when they paused it, they had 2 days left back in October when they started it.

As others have pointed out, people had around 6 months to step inside their house to reset the timer. 45 days from when the timers were started back up (either after being reset by someone walking into their house or still the same they were when timers were paused) is usually the largest catch of houses becoming available since people will have stopped playing during that time and might not have come back (though plenty of people are coming back to get ready for Shadowbringers, so this might not follow the normal cycle).

As to OP's questions - There is no way to tell what houses are going to be demo'd ahead of them actually being auto-demolished. Some tips that people have learned though are that demos happen on the hour, so it's always good to check the aetherytes on the hour if you're house hunting. (You still have to deal with the random timer before you can purchase a house, so good luck!) The approximate date is either June 6th or June 7th, so later this week.

Best of luck to anyone house hunting!

[Canadane]

Everything I've been told is that use of the house while the timer is paused does not reset your housing timer.

Edit: Upon further review of the wording in the Temporary Suspension of Automatic Housing Demolition notice, I may have been incorrect!
Well, haven't lost a house yet, all is well.

[Otega]

This might be the most un-fun thing I have done in game. Just straight camping a single spot, so far, 5 hrs, just devalued only 32k gil (wtf lol). starting on the next 6 hours. Ugh

[Fellgon]

I really wish house plot was an instance like...no limits for terrain, plot or oportunity to all have one. many players could see free plot in same spot one already have a house.