Prestige Housing

Prestige Housing
Prestige housing does not require any upkeep using coin (in-game currency) and/or status points. You can get prestige housing in several ways. Access to prestige houses depends on the style of the house and they will be available for use if you have done any the following:
 * 1) Purchased a deed with Loyalty Tokens (see the veteran/loyalty merchants in main cities).
 * 2) Purchased a house style with Station Cash (using real money) in the Station Marketplace.
 * 3) Purchased a specific Collectors Edition of Everquest 2 or pre-ordered a (feature) Expansion like Tears of Veeshan.
 * 4) Attended a SOE event like Fan Faire when SOE gave attendees prestige houses.
 * 5) Played the game long enough to earn special veteran's rewards
 * 6) Win a Deed of Ownership Loot card from playing Legends of Norrath.

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. Details on the process are in the related Buying a House section below.

Prestige housing from purchasing a specific Collectors Edition Expansion or (feature) Expansion pre-order is also one-per character; however each character on your account can claim a deed.

Most prestige houses are based on zones found in the world that have been modified.

Prestige Houses can be toured or accessed via portals in Qeynos Capitol District or South Freeport, or via the Character>Housing tab if you own the house.

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 Housing is available by examining a Legends of Norrath loot card that offers a deed specific to that style of house. These include:, , , or . After the SOE database was compromised in 2011 players with existing accounts had the option to choose a tax-free house as a reward for returning to the game. Like prestige housing, a character can only own one house in each of these styles. This type of home does not require any upkeep using coin (in-game currency) and/or status points.

Tax-free homes look like the largest version of the houses available in each of the cities they are named after.

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 . If you take the transporter (a glowing red ring) on the ground at the bottom of the city ramp, you will be at the top of all of the ramps. As you pass through the archway into the Wards, the door for this housing is directly in front of you before you make your first turn.
 * New Halas: Located inside of the city caverns next to the tradeskill area, down the stairs.

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.

Buying a Prestige or Tax-Free House
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. This is a process is carried out in three steps:
 * 1) You must have a deed in your inventory.
 * 2) You will right click on the deed to redeem (or activate) access to the house before you can buy it.
 * 3) You must go to a portal location in South Freeport or South Qeynos to buy the house.

How to get a deed:
 * 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 have a loot card for a Tax-Free House and you have redeemed it in the Legends of Norrath interface, you must type /claim so it will appear in your inventory.
 * If you purchased a prestige house using Station Cash from Station Marketplace, the deed will be in your character's inventory.

For a list of available Prestige Houses, see the last section in this article.

List of Prestige Houses
You can access these prestige houses and buy them in and  if you have a deed. For details on how you can buy one of these houses, see the Buying a House section for Prestige Houses, above.

Prestige houses purchased with Station Cash from the Station Marketplace:
 * Arcane Academy
 * Court of the Master
 * Enchanted Freeblood Portal
 * Felwithe Mansion
 * Galleon of Dreams
 * Maj'dul Astronomer's Tower
 * Maj'dul Vacation Suite
 * Personal Dojo
 * Personal Library
 * Personal Planetarium
 * Private Opera House
 * Researcher's Sanctum
 * Secluded Sanctum
 * Storm Tower Isle
 * Teneberous Island Refuge
 * Thurgadin Grand Hall
 * Tower of Knowledge
 * Uncanny Estate
 * Vale of Halfpint Delight

Prestige houses that can be claimed or looted:
 * Dimensional Pocket, LoN loot card
 * Everfrost Summer Home, from the Destiny of Velious Collector's Edition
 * Lavastorm Summer Home, from the Age of Discovery Collector's Edition
 * Luxurious Kromzek Keep, a drop from a Drunder raid
 * Mistmooore Crags Estate, the 7-year veteran reward
 * Residence of the Blades, LoN loot card
 * Skyblade Skiff Launchpad, from attending Fan Faire 2010