Why can low level alts purchase FC housing?

[worldofneil]

There wouldn't be the upcoming changes to transfer of FC leadership in 6.1 if they were ignoring us.

Sorry I don't wish to derail this thread, but what upcoming changes to transfer of FC leadership in 6.1?

[Jojoya]

Sorry I don't wish to derail this thread, but what upcoming changes to transfer of FC leadership in 6.1?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post5709666

Second slide (top right): "It will no longer be possible to grant brand-new FC members authorization to purchase land or the rank of FC Master."

The specific period that a member would be considered "brand-new" wasn't stated during the Live Letter, only that it would be "significant" (which doesn't mean much).
My personal guess is that the period will be the same as the current auto-dethrone for failure to log in (35 days).

It's going to slow down how often house flipping via FC transfer can happen but I don't see it stopping it altogether. Flippers will simply focus their efforts on purchasing then finding buyers on other worlds and accounts while waiting for the "escrow" (new member period) to expire on their current pending sale.

Again, SE is creating a mess by making restrictions per world instead of making them account wide regardless of world. Any player with multiple houses, even if each is on a different world, is taking away the opportunity for another player to be able to own a house at all. It's rather crazy that a single player with a single account is able to obtain up to 80 houses under the current rules and will be able to continue to do so even after the rules changes simply because SE won't make the ownership restriction account-wide. They keep tossing flimsy band-aids on a system that needs a thorough overhaul.