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One of the things they are hoping is we will buy lots cheap and sell them to each other. Real estate prices will continue to rise the same as they did in TC3. Luckily now we have secure deed trading so this makes house purchasing much safer.
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"They" can hope all they want to. I had only resentment when I saw the price of land go up in TC3, effectively stranding me where I first bought property. I was still in "traditional mode" thinking I could join a neighborhood one day and decide to move the next. WRONG!
I will never move, nor will I ever buy property from someone else. Erect the stinkin TC3 dump on one side of me and put the sewers on the other three sides -- I'm not moving.
One of the best aspects of real estate in this game has always been the ability to move "at will" and create seasonal or other neighborhoods. Except for the few players who are into islands, there has never been a big interest in real estate in this game. Personally, I think there never will be. It is just another footnote to the history of this game telling the tale of another positive and fun aspect that has bit the dust.
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Actually their has been extreme interest in real estate.
Back in AV when popcorn owned the only Island he used to get offers daily, so did the few people with peninsulas and the guy with the only grass water peninsula.
I remember I sold my grass water lot a few years ago for $2 mill.
The other cities had the same thing like in TC & BF people wanted the islands and the few peninsulas.
Also demand for House Designers and Roof Artists has always been high and there were a few house designers that charged 200k+ in the early TSO Years but there were many who charged what the cost was (usually 20-50k) sometimes they were even better then those big shots lol.
I remember lots of people knew who Johnny Lace was and they wanted his houses.
In the early TSO years and even now, people used to get there houses up to like Position 1-5 on the top 10 and then sell the lots. My friend used to make contests that required people to stay the longest for 24 hours, the person who stayed the longest got 1 mill (a ton back then). That made his lot go up to #1 (skill & shops category) and he sold the houses for like $4 Mill to $ 5 mill.
