Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[Mhaeric]

At 25 minutes in, Balmung still had a couple of smalls left in the new wards that took people about an additional 10 minutes or so to distinguish from the ones that already had timers from people moving. I didn't see how long it took for the mediums and larges to go, but I suspect it was within a minute or two.

Relocating is a huge part of the problem. They opened these for new players, not so you could move house.

On Balmung, the number of moved houses on Balmung is in the order of roughly 20 or so per housing region. So roughly about 80 or so people moved. Compared to the 720 new plots, moving is not a major contribution to any of this. Particularly when you consider that the plots they moved from become available, albeit with a timer.

Edit: The house next to my FC house came up so I ended up moving to it from the Lavender Beds about an hour ago. It's still just a small, but now I don't have to pick and choose which house to hang out at anymore. I'll miss the Lavender Beds plot, because it was in my top 2 small plots in that district, but I'm happy this go around with being so close to my FC now. People are already camping the spot I left too.