Gift a House?

VDoom1 · June 2019

Hi everyone.

So with today's announcement of the "gift furniture, get Khajiit statue!" I was wondering. Is there any way to gift a house?

For example. I got a bud who recently got ESO. The itty bitty free apartment quickly became full. By full I mean a bed, a dresser...and that's pretty much all that fits. xD
So I was thinking since she can't afford her own place yet, maybe I could gift her one.

Now I mean via the same system as we gift pets or mounts. I tried a few days ago and it didn't seem possible but perhaps I did something wrong.
If this is not in the game already, could we please get this implemented?
Since we are getting a lot of new players with Elsweyr it would be nice if their veteran friends who have had ESO for months or years could help them out with their first proper home.

If there is no way to gift a house, is there a way to set the permissions so that a friend could enter and decorate a house that is not the primary residence?
I imagine a lot of us have several homes when we can only have one primary residence at a time. For example we got the Grand Psijic Vila a couple of months ago for free and now with Elsweyr we got The Hall of The Lunar Champion also for free. So while we can only have one primary residence active at a time, is there any way a friend of ours could enter and decorate, in other words, just use another house as their primary residence?

Right now the houses we don't use are pretty much just gathering dust. So why not let a friend utilize it as their own? We still own it, but they could decorate it.

VaranisArano · June 2019

So far, there is not a way to gift a house.

If its an in-game house, you can give another player the money to buy that house, once they have the relevant achievements necessary. I did that for two friends with the Witches Cottage house.

At one point, players could gift houses through the Crown Sotre gifting on the PTS, but there was a bug that didn't allow people to gift houses they already owned, which obviously severely limits the usefulness of the system. So unless that bug has been fixed (and I rather assume it hasn't), we probably won't get the ability to gift houses.