Omai~ I was just looking at the old prices like half an hour ago; good catch! Treehouses and Heights-style caves are 4k now, and the fanciest Meadow-style houses go up to 15k.
At least the expensive bungalow homes have 5 patches instead of 3 now. So maybe this was a rationalization of pricing, rather than a general price increase.
Speaking of housing rush (and maybe this should be a new topic, but for now I am just posting it here), it occurs to me that a lot of people are hoping to get their old house back--the exact same one they had. And it further occurs to me that while I have no desire to take a house somewhere that is someone's ancestral home to which they want to return, I will have no way of knowing whose is/was whose.
I know people will have the right to buy whichever house they'd like, and if someone takes "my" house, I'll just buy another one: I am not proposing making any kind of *rule* that you can't buy someone's house.
But I wonder if we could make some kind of a way that people who don't want to sadden a fellow glitch by buying her/his ancestral house could choose to avoid doing so. Something like a forum thread where someone could post the house s/he used to live in, and then someone like me could just ctrl+F and check whether a house I was thinking of buying was mentioned? Is there a more sophisticated way to possibly do this?
The expensive bungalow houses have always had 5 patches. They just seem to have made all the top level bungalow houses the same price (instead of 8K to 10K), the medium ones the same price...the low level ones are still staggered, but maybe they've not changed them yet. The tree houses and rock houses seem to be more in line with their current prices at 4K, even though that just about doubled their original cost, but they were always in high demand. The swamp prices dropped, probably to encourage more to purchase out there...
Of course, when we eventually get options to decorate/expand...it won't matter as much...
@Kookaburra
In general, I'd agree with you, except for the fact that treehouses still seem to be best value for price: there are bungalows more expensive than the treehouses that have 1 less patch and 4 less plots, and--in some cases--smaller cabinets, as well. (Don't even get me started on the Andra-style caves.)
...interesting. I was really looking forward to snapping up a $2k tree house, but this makes sense. They were so much better than the $1k apartments as to make the latter nearly worthless...
I think the prices seem a bit more consistent with their resources and their demand...they couldn't keep tree houses in stock...and it's nice that the different designs of the meadows homes don't affect the price any longer - all large homes are 15K and all mediums are 10K...hope they change the smalls to be consistent also...but maybe at the lower level they are trying to help those with fewer currants. Also, meadows homes have always been in high demand as well, so the price increase is reasonable. And making an apartment a bit more than a small bag seems to make sense too since you have unlimited storage capacity with a home.
Per caromalinia's comment...yes, many want their original homes back, and I am one of them...but I'm also reasonable enough to know that if someone gets my old home before me, then I just have to buy a different one of the same style. It's not that big of deal...except when I'm constantly banging on the door because I forget it's not my house anymore and I can't figure out why my key doesn't work ;)
I just made a bug report concerning some housing things: http://beta.glitch.com/forum/bugs/7419/ I'm not sure whether I found mistakes or everything is as it should be.
If you are bored by waiting for "Closed" to go away, please, have a look and tell me whether you also think, that there are some mistakes in the realty section.
Alas my 2.2K dream has been crushed 'neath the brutal heel of GREED! (Glitch Real Estate Elevation Directorate)
That said - the rise in prices makes sense. It hurts a tiny bit at first when we're all broke, but before you know it people will be flush with currants again.
Now if we could just open soon so I can grow my 100 currants!
Does anyone remember the spam-like messages we got at the end of the last test talking about how housing would be a wonderful investment and was guaranteed to rise?
I had a treehouse and thought that it was ridiculously undervalued considering that it had a 3 patches and a 12plot garden. Quite productive. The neighborhood was also relatively empty of other residents. I could log in, water or replant my garden, put the goods up for auction or pop outside to sell to a vendor, maybe use the remaining energy to mine one of the local rocks. Log off, come back four hours later for the next new day. You could spend a few minutes doing that every four hours (boring, yes) and progress through the game without it eating up too much of your real life.