@Thoriorz right, sorry, there aren't houses that cost 100,000 crowns, I was getting mixed up. But there are plenty of houses that cost over $100 in crowns.
Any of the larger homes. I toured one that costs 15,000 crowns. At $15 for 1,500 crowns, that comes out to $150.
So I put one too many zeroes on my "100,000" crowns example lol
The game only starts when you hit CP160. Before that is merely intro. (Just kidding... or am I?)
If you want to take that character to group play, I would recommend levelling up skill lines, learn traits (so you can reconstruct items in those traits), collect item sets and so on. Alchemy and Provisioning is a good thing to level up for the duration passives.