Not sure if you've played UO since AOS buddy but you can no longer buy house deeds & survey tools anymore, they are officially rares.
The replacement for this is you'll need to buy a "House Placement tool"
Guildstones are also longer longer purchased they are created via the "Guilds" option on your paperdoll. However this change is alot more recent than AOS.
However not distracting from the topic too much i totally agree with you.
Buccaneers Den is supposed to be the home of thieves and murderers and yet the red healers there don't even res reds ??
IMHO EVERY NPC in Buccaneers den should sell wares to reds and the healers should Res, to top that off i think they should charge blue players triple the price as any good scoundrel would do.
At the moment Buccaneers Den is just a name and it's NO DIFFERENT from any other city including the damn Capital Britannia !!! With the exception of no guardzone but as Reds can enter ANY town now without getting whacked Bucs Den has lost it's Status as the Refuge of Thieves and Pirates.
So you can create a guild on a red no problem via paperdoll. To buy a house placement tool you'll need to find a Architect and it'll cost you a few hundred gold. However that still leaves you the problem of not being able to buy one, Try and find a player wtih a blue char and ask him nicely.