Beginner's guide to LotRO housing: Making the purchase

There are two ways to buy a house. You can go to the housing broker just outside of each homestead, shown in the maps after the jump, or you can click on the For Sale signs outside of the home of your choice. We would highly recommend using the For Sale signs, as then you can see what you're buying. The housing broker is used more for choosing an instanced neighborhood to visit. As a general rule, the houses are similarly priced in each homestead. Standard houses go for around 1 gold, Deluxe go for around 7 gold and Kinship houses go for around 15 gold. Of course, as mentioned earlier, the price varies depending on a few factors, but these will get you in the ballpark.

Standard – A small 2-room home with 22 interior hooks, 5 exterior hooks and one storage chest with 30 slots.

Deluxe – A medium personal house with 3-4 rooms, 47 interior hooks, 7 exterior hooks and two storage chests with 30 slots each.

Kinship – This enormous house is only available to the leader of the kinship and offers 80 interior hooks, 12 exterior and 3 storage chests with 30 slots each.

Before you make that final purchase though, there are a few things you need to remember. First off, you can't resell your home. If you want to ever upgrade or move, you will need to abandon the house, gaining back everything inside, yet losing the money you initially paid for the house. Secondly, you will need to keep up with the maintenance on your home. On a standard house, this is around 50 silver a week. You simply enter your housing window tab and select Maintenance to see when your payment is due. It's usually safest to pay several weeks in advance if you have the funds available.

Housing Broker NP locations:

You may have also noticed a new skill in your skill list called Travel to Personal House. With this skill, and 1 Travelling Ration (2 silver at any Provisions NPC), you can travel to your personal house at any time from anywhere, with a 1 hour cooldown period between uses.

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