Is it me or is there a housing Crisis In-game?

[davidgr1200]

With people holding onto estates for the sole purpose of resell, this might not be a better time to flood the market I feel as if prices will fall. there will be new estates to buy and there will be more estates to chose from in the future possibly, and i dont feel that the market will hold onto the current prices, unless someone really wants to maintain the prices with a massive amount of money, to keep the values even. But i also feel that it would be unwise of mindark to hold onto these investments without properly pricing them with the markets.

Always a tricky question that about prices going up or coming down. If I remember correctly, up until about two years ago apartments went for around 250 PED each for the cheapest ones. Now they have gone up to around 500 PED. This makes owning an apartment relatively more expensive these days and implies that the demand has increased relative to the supply. Personally I think the best way for Mind Ark to go is to release a small number of apartments onto the auction each month. FOr example, they could put a new apartment block somewhere and sell off 2 floors (16 apartments) each month. This will not bring down the prices too much but should enable 16 extra people per month to acquire their own living space.
(Just in case you are wondering, I already have an apartment so would not be in the market for an extra one).