Housing


 * For a categorical listing of all housing-related articles, see Category:Housing.
 * For information on Guild Halls, see Guild Halls.

Each character you create in Everquest 2 is entitled to buy inn rooms or houses. As of 2011 each character can own a maximum of 20 houses. Housing is offered in three types in a wide variety of styles. Terminology in this article includes:
 * "Style" to refer to the look and layout of a house, while "type" refers to how a house is purchased or claimed.
 * "Buy" is used to describe the the in-game action of obtaining the actual house, while "purchase" refers to the exchange of real-world money with SOE.
 * "Upkeep" (or maintenance) refers to rent that is paid using in-game currency and status points.

The benefits of owning a house:
 * Housing serves as a place from which a player can sell their goods to other players via the broker.
 * Owning any inn room or house grants a character a maximum of 6 slots on the broker. No matter how many homes a character owns that number can not be exceeded.
 * Special containers called Sales Displays can be placed in a house as furniture so other players can shop in your home. Sales Displays offer an advantage on the broker market: other players can shop from them and avoid the broker fee they would normally pay outside of your home.
 * Home ownership grants a character a house vault with 6 storage slots. Like the broker, owning multiple homes on one character will not increase the number of house vault slots that character has.

=Housing Types=

Standard Housing
Standard housing (the most common type) is purchased using in-game currency and/or status points. The cost of buying and maintaining a house depends on the size, location, and number of rooms it has. Purchase prices range from a few silver to several platinum and a large number of status points to upkeep. A character can own multiple houses of the same style, provided the door to access them is in a different location.

Standard Housing can be found in all of the major cities in Norrath, the world of EQ2.

Prestige Housing
Prestige housing does not require any upkeep using in-game currency or status points. You can get prestige housing in several ways. Depending on the style of the house it is available for use if you have done the following:
 * 1) Purchased a house style with Station Cash (using real money) in the Station Marketplace.
 * 2) Purchased a specific Collectors Edition of Everquest like Destiny of Velious or pre-ordered a (feature) Expansion like Age of Discovery.
 * 3) attended an SOE event like Fan Faire
 * 4) Played the game long enough to earn special veteran's rewards

You can only own one of (any) available style of prestige house per character and a separate deed must be purchased for each character to own Station Cash homes.

Prestige housing from purchasing a Collectors Edition and Expansion pre-order is also one-per charcater; however each character on your account can claim a deed.

All Prestige houses have travel portals you can get from their doors; these portals can be placed like furniture to link other homes or guild halls for fast and easy travel.

Tax-Free Housing

 * Tax-free Housingis obtained with, , , or received from examining a Legends of Norrath loot card. Like prestige housing, a character can only own one in each of these styles. This type of home does not require any upkeep using in-game currency or status points.

All Tax-Free houses have travel portals you can get from their doors; these portals can be placed like furniture to link other homes or guild halls for fast and easy travel.

These houses are in special locations specific to the tax-free houses:
 * Qeynos: Located in the South Qeynos mage tower. It's in the Blue Portal. Next to the teleportation trainer.
 * Freeport: Located next to Thaumaturge Ranollious one floor down in The Academy of Arcane Science in North Freeport.
 * Gorowyn: Located in the entrance to near the  entrance to the city. You can also take the transporter up from just inside the entrance near the docks to reach this area quickly.
 * New Halas: Located just down the stairs from the tradeskill area, in the New Halas housing cavern.

=Buying a House=

Buying A Standard House

 * See also: List of Houses

To buy a house in a city of good or evil alignment, the player must be a citizen in a city of the same alignment. Standard housing exists all all [city|cities] throughout Norrath in EQ2.

You can buy a standard house by clicking on its front door. A window will open with information about the house's address and price. Before buying it, you can take a tour of the house to decide if you like the style and layout. To do this, right-click on the front door and choose "tour."
 * The walls and flooring in Freeport and Qeynos houses can be changed after you purchase them by clicking on the walls and floors.

Some housing is available for purchase in two versions: one with a pure coin cost and one with a mixed coin/status cost. For example, a two-room apartment in Irontoe's East has two prices:


 * Non-status version: ~ to buy + ~/week in rent.
 * Status version: to buy + ~/week in rent.

The weekly status cost for the status version of this housing can be reduced further if you buy, win, or quest for furniture and house items with status reduction values (as show in each item's description).

Buying a Prestige or Tax-Free Home
To buy a house in a city of good or evil alignment, the player must be a citizen in a city of the same alignment.

You must first have a deed to "buy" a prestige or tax-free house. Deeds are items that you will find in your inventory under specific conditions: =Housing Upkeep=
 * If you bought a Collector's Edition of EQ2, attended Fan Faire, or you qualify for a veteran's reward, you must type /claim to open the Veteran's Reward interface and choose to claim a deed so it will appear in your character's inventory.
 * If you purchased a prestige house using the Station Market place, the deed will be in your character's inventory. After you have the deed in your inventory, you can redeem it by right clicking on it in your inventory.

Upkeep for Standard Houses
All standard houses require the payment of weekly (real-time) upkeep. This is normally a fraction of the cost of the house. Up to XXXX weeks can be paid in advance. Upkeep can consist of coin only or coin and status points.

Failing to pay upkeep has two effects.
 * 1) No one, including your character, will be able to enter the house.
 * 2) Items in sales displays will no longer list your address on the broker.

You never have to pay "back rent" if you miss a payment to access the house again.

Furniture

 * See also: List of House Items

Many players will want to decorate their houses with furniture to add a personalized touch. In general, furniture can be player made or bought from a city merchant with status points and coin, though some items are results of quests. Most heritage quests will give a reward that can optionally be placed in a house when not in use. Collection rewards sometimes have a reward that can be placed in your house. There are several types of furniture, each with a different function:


 * Decorative - Both player made and store bought. Can be placed in house. No other function
 * Rent Status Reduction - Once placed in the home, these items will reduce the number of status points to be paid for rent each week.
 * Pet - Pets can be bought from a vendor, rewarded when players complete quests or compete in the Arena, or claimed as an adventure reward after your EverQuest account has reached a certain age. Pets will wander around the house, and normally have several options (such as play dead, dance, etc) available when examined that will trigger various animations.
 * Tradeskill station - Tradeskill stations can be purchased from city merchants. The lower qualities of worktables have been recently changed to be decorative only since the changes in tradeskilling removed less than pristine items.
 * Sales display - Depending on the size and quality of the house, players will be able to place one or more sales displays in their house. Sales displays are player made items (crafted by a carpenter) or game rewards that can be placed in a broker slot and subsequently placed in the house, enabling the sales of large numbers of goods and thus avoiding the commission charged by the broker. Some sales displays are specialized and only allow one type of item to be placed within them (eg. bag stands may only contain bags), though salesman's crates that can contain any type of item are available.

=Basic Housing Features=

Storage
A house will have a number of vaults, which are bank-like spaces to hold items. They can be accessed by right clicking on the door of the house. The vaults can be filled with Strong Boxes or Backpacks in the same way as a bank slot. The smallest house will have two vault spaces, with larger houses having more. {Update: Now, even the smallest house has 6 vault spaces, and the house vaults are all interlinked, similar to the shared bank.}

Access
There are several levels of access to a player house, each level restricts the actions of the visiting player. House_Access.png


 * Owner: You, the owner of the house. Only you can relinquish the ownership of your house.
 * Trustee: Trustees have the same level of access as the owner. Trustees can place items, move items, and interact in every way like the owner with the exception of picking up reward items specific to the owner (such as rewards from heritage quests) and removing them from the house entirely, or accessing the house vault. Trustees can also pay your rent for the week.
 * Friend: Friends may enter your house, view your decorations, and interact with some of your items (they may take food from your Frostfell servings, for instance). They can also move items around in your house, but they cannot place new items or take items out of your house.
 * Visitor: Visitors may enter your house, view your decorations, and interact with some of your items (they may take food Frostfell servings, for instance). They cannot, however, pick items up or move them.
 * None: No one can visit your home when you have this access level set.

You can access these prestige houses and buy them in and  (if unlocked).


 * Enchanted Freeblood Portal
 * Everfrost Summer Home
 * Felwithe Mansion
 * Luxurious Kromzek Keep
 * Maj'dul Astronomer's Tower
 * Maj'dul Vacation Suite
 * Mistmooore Crags Estate
 * Personal Dojo
 * Personal Library
 * Private Opera House
 * Teneberous Island Refuge
 * Thurgadin Grand Hall
 * Skyblade Skiff Launchpad
 * Uncanny Estate