Other options could be like how LOTRO did their player housing.
You would walk up to a portal on the out skirts of a zone and there would be a portal. When you walked into the portal a window would pop up that listed several neighborhoods. Each neighborhood had several different plots with a house on it. Each plot varies in size. Small, Medium and Large. Some plots were utilized specifically for guilds. Each plot either had a weekly or monthly "rental fee". (i can't remember the duration). If you lapsed your rent, your items you had stored there would go to a "broker". If you paid your back rent to get it current you did not loose your plot. If you didn't pay back rent for "x" amount of weeks your plot would come available for the next person to come and rent. The broker held your items for you until you picked it up.

Each plot had "hooks" you could use to decorate the area inside and out. The smaller the plot the fewer the "hooks". The larger the plot more "hooks".

Another option is how "Horizons" had their system set up. Horizons is now called "Istaria: Chronicals of the Gifted"

Their system was they had single plots and guild plots. Guild plots consisted of a centralized plot for a guild hall to be built with 3 - 6 plots for guild members to build their own personal house. Each plot had a set amount of space. What you put in that plot was up to you, as long as you didn't go out of the perimeter of your specifically owned plot. I remember on my plot I had several silos built that was basically more storage for goods. I had a blacksmith station, alchemy station and an Enchanting station. All connected wiht winding paths that connected everything together.

When you went to start construction on a building it would let you see the building you were going to construct. You could move it and rotate it to how ever you liked and was able to place it where ever you liked, as long as it didn't go outside the perimeter. Once you found where you wanted to place it and placed the new building, the building would look as if you had just "broke ground" no ceiling, no walls, nothing but the ground excavated with ropes around the area for the building.
To build the building, you would have to look to see what was required for the building to be built by clicking on the area. And go gather the materials and add them to that building.
As you placed required materials into the area for said building the graphic would update with partial walls up and scaffolding around the building. It would progressively become more complete as more required items were added.

I hope that when eso housing is added, a mixture of the two ideas I are in some form incorporated to the update.

We want housing, we want housing, we want housing!

I'm of the opinion that the land-masses aren't large enough in this game for there to be player housing. (Separate from people sharing the 'same' housing space... being an instanced unit like GTA-Online or something similar.)

Star Wars Galaxies had a similar housing system to what was mentioned earlier. In which a guild bought a plot of land to build their 'city' around. And someone took control of housing placement (size/style) based off guild size/investment and the like. But Galaxies had numerous servers with a minimum of 6 planets in which those cities could be built on.

With the megaserver technology.. we essentially have 1 server in which for that to be built. Because we flip as needed to allow for everyone to exist and yet not in the same world. (Rather than numerous servers based off playstyle.)

I'd like to see it. But in an RP sense, it'd be excessively off-putting for someone to claim owning the same plot of land that I do. There's just not enough 'wasted/empty' space that I've seen in this game to allow for people to purchase their own plots of land to homstead (ala Hearthfire.)

The problem with in-world housing ala SWG is that the game needs a maintenance system or you end up with vast tracts of abandoned houses. ESO is going with an instanced system and the plan seems to be (based on the PTS and data mining) for 1-2 inn rooms and 2-3 housing locations per zone. I'm sure they'll be adding more if it proves to be a success.

I'd love to see some different types of housing such as caves, ruins, ships. and outlaw hideouts for different kinds of characters.

I want a crypt such as those in graveyards, the stone domed building with stairs going down to a cavern with several rooms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BOuIMMDKgQ

It's easy done.

New very large land mass (not flat so we can have houses on hills or houses in fields). Last thing we need would be rows upon rows of exact same houses, looks boring, DAoC did that and it was pants. Also add houses to the already used land masses, these would go at a premium as they could be few and far between.

Have the ability to open a portal to your front door so you and your pals can get instant access to your home.

Inside addons, bank access, repairs, forge, woodworking and clothier tables. Storage chests and furniture you can actually sit in. Garden outside to grow alch mats etc.

I am excite for player housing

I'm a blacksmith and an adventurer in ESO. I would love a Bilbo Baggins style house with mounted heads, good food, an armory, and a large quantity of multi-racial furniture and decor. And of course, a personal forge.

Houses make things confusing. In GTA 5 they used Apartments which made much more sense as 100 or so people can have the same apartment lobby and it still make logical sense for them all to live there.

Gta 5 did release online houses to buy. I bought a summer beach house in the Paleto Bay area. It was nice until I met someone who had the same house as me. I was in my front yard messing with my options and getting ready to start my day of crime when another player logged on spawned in my house then walked out my front door (his too apparently) then killed me.

Now this wont happen in ESO but I can see myself trying to chill in my front yard/balcony and people just coming out of my front door or running into it via horse.

Now I know there are not any giant apartment complexes in Tamriel but I remember having townhouse/apartment like things in Morrowind back in the day. Your starting little area in Morrowind had you held up with that imperial in that apartment like deal. If I had the option to get an apartment over a house I would for that reason. Just makes more sense to me. Not saying take the option away from people who WANT houses but as a bit of an RPer that is my major issue for a house. UNLESS of course I can have a little cabin in the wilderness.

Some of my favorite houses in Skyrim were ones I built with editors or building mods. Though If i am forced to live in the city I would rather take an apartment for immersion reasons.