Each race already gets a free 'Apartment'.

See the following link for details.

Most 'Small' houses are pretty affordable if you play the game regularly even just a couple times a week doing just the Random Dungeons. (which usually take less than an hour to complete).

The small home 'Snugpod' seem to be much like what you described here and costs only $45,000 gold.

However, If you are considering buying a home, especially with 'Real' money, I would think twice.

At this time homes are basically only good for displaying you in game trophies... although the next patch is supposed to give you 'storage' space in you home basically making it a secondary bank.

You can't fast travel for free from your home.

Even if you put a merchant in your home, you cannot 'repair' your equipment from your home.

If you put a 'Banker' in your home it does not give you access to your 'Guild' banks or Stores.

You can place Crafting services like Blacksmith and Woodworking stations in your home, but if you are a crafter doing 'Daily Writ Quests' you can't start your 'Writ' quests from your home or complete it from your home so it is much more convenient to start and complete those quests from a town where you can both start the quest, create the items and complete the quest all in the same town.

Homes are a 'Pure Vanity' item, but they can be fun to decorate, at least for a couple of hours or so.

I spent about 120$ on a house and furniture and services and I basically never go there.

My 'Real' home in the game is the back of a stable in a town right next to a Wayshrine where I can do all my 'Writ Quest' activities in one place as well as repair all my equipment and do all my Guild transaction.

Woefulmonkey wrote: »

The small home 'Snugpod' seem to be much like what you described here and costs only $45,000 gold.

That's nothing like what they asked for.

WaTeR-aBuSeR wrote: »

If you want a house in the forest put a tent and fire in snugpod. Then place trees all around that's what someone else did.

All around where? Snugpod has no outside. It's just the pod interior.

Krainor1974 wrote: »

.... a small tent and campfire out in the middle of a very dense woods or Forrest.

Presently the best you could do is buy a home with a lot of outdoor space and throw in a lot of trees, campfire and tent.

Autumn's Gate is relatively cheap (60k) and so are non-fancy trees. Fill the outdoor space with trees and you could pretend you have a small lodge in the middle of dense woods.

It's a great idea actually! Reminds me about classical party-based RPGs.

That's a nice idea. The entrance could be an opening in some hanging vines. Maybe backed by a mountain with an overhang. Walls could be a walkable maze of trees and vines. Maybe include a bubbling spring and stream, and bird and bug sounds..

Edit. Clearly this couldn't be a free home. Sorry, I got carried away with the tent in a dense forest idea.