Problem
All over, houses are rarely for sale via GPS. I've traveled door-door to try and find houses for sale to start up a real-estate business. I think that most houses purchased most likely have a player who purchased it, then may have moved from the city. Houses also are extremely unaffordable for the newer/intermediate players. Once you have been established for a long time will you be able to afford that million dollar price tag.
Solution: No longer value the price of the house at 100% to buy it, change to a mortgage system that is on a weekly basis. (Sundays). Every Sunday you would visit the bank and have an option to pay mortgage. 5% of property value.
Failing to pay your mortgage for that week will cause you to pay a penalty fee. (Added amounts are paid as a debt not towards mortgage)
Failure to pay for 3 weeks in a row, would cause your house to be auctioned off, and you to accumulate debt from failure to pay mortgage. Thus throwing the house back onto market in 3 weeks vs 90 days. This would throw houses back into rotation faster, creating a whole new environment/business(Real-estate)
Incentive: The reason for suggested changes is the following.
1.) This system will take place of the 90 day wait on housing, freeing up a lot more houses faster.
2.) This gives the player opportunity, the player that may not be able to afford a $12,000,000 price tag, would now have a weekly $600,000 mortgage to keep track of and balance finances for. This also helps the new player, with a 1G apartments $17,000 a week is completely obtainable as long as they are wiling to stay on the straight and narrow and not get arrested/acquire debts, ETC.