HOUSING for GILS... Do we really want it like this??!

[Karari]

I don't understand why we'll be able to buy/sell plots of land. Is there a limited quantity of each? Are there ways other than purchasing from an NPC to obtain? Assurance of a return to your initial investment if you find yourself low on gil?

[DoctorMog]

I don't understand why we'll be able to buy/sell plots of land. Is there a limited quantity of each? Are there ways other than purchasing from an NPC to obtain? Assurance of a return to your initial investment if you find yourself low on gil?

Maybe you want to be in a neighborhood with a friend and the instance is full? Buy it off someone looking to buy a new house in another plot.

Buy your friends houses,

Buy out an entire instance if your friends and you are rich.

[Karari]

I guess what I'm really asking is how housing works. I know it's instanced, but I don't know how many instances can be created. I really want to know if the better plots of land are going to be in a limited quantity and those who join a server where legacy members are concentrated are going to get leftovers.

[Skies]

I guess what I'm really asking is how housing works. I know it's instanced, but I don't know how many instances can be created. I really want to know if the better plots of land are going to be in a limited quantity and those who join a server where legacy members are concentrated are going to get leftovers.

From what I gathered from all the info they've said (i'm working off of memory I could be wrong and cannot proper quote the sources, but mostly live letters)...
It will be a variety of instances, however, each instance is a 'neighborhood' having various plots of land of different sizes. Only a small handful of large plots and various smaller ones. Once a neighborhood, an instance, is heavily populated (but not nescessarily full) a new instance, empty, will be generated. So in this case, only a few will be able to acquire larger plots in each instance, whereas most will get smaller plots.

So buying and selling plot is a thing, you might want to be in the same instance as a friend, you might want a large plot of land but the last instance isn't filling up fast enough and it might be safer to buy from another player than wait for a new instance to spawn and hope you can get the land first... And other such things.