If you want a house or apartment in Final Fantasy 14, you’ll need to save some gil. Our guide explains how the housing lottery system works.
Housing in Final Fantasy 14 is a hot topic, and while it used to be really hard to get a housing plot, it’s now all up to chance.
If you’re looking to invest in digital property, you have a lot of stuff to consider, and we’re here to make that easier for you. Below, we list out all of the basics on how to get a house in FFXIV, including everything you need to know before investing in a house.
Before you even bother, though, note that free trial players cannot buy a house.
Below, we detail how to get an apartment and house in FFXIV.How housing works in FFXIV
Once upon a time, housing involved invisible timers and camping out at placards, clicking for hours in hopes you would snipe a plot, but this isn’t the case anymore. Now, if you want a housing plot, you’ll have to enter a lottery system. If you win the lottery, you get your own house to decorate! (More on that below.)
Houses offer a handful of benefits, but you do not need one to play FFXIV. In a house, you can place a personalized chocobo stable in your yard to dye or strengthen your bird, grow rare crops in a garden, and even set up vendor NPCs to sell you basic goods directly from the comfort of your own home.
There are five housing districts you can buy property in:
The Lavender Beds (Gridania)
Mist (Limsa Lominsa)
The Goblet (Ul’dah)
Shirogane (Kugane)
Empyreum (Ishgard).
Each district has different visual aesthetics, so you should tour all of the areas to see which one you like the best. If you want to stay in a neighborhood filled with greenery, for instance, The Lavender Beds is probably your ideal spot. If you want an icy winter vibe, though, then you should check out the Empyreum.
Each district has 30 wards, which are effectively just different instances of each other. Each ward looks the same, but it just gives players more plots to attempt to purchase. Each ward has 60 housing plots of various sizes. To save you from the math, that means there are 9,000 plots per server you can try and score.
You can also share ownership of your personal house with your friends, so they can also use your stable, decorate the house, or teleport to it easily.
