How is the Lord of the Rings Online 2025 housing rush progressing so far? Well, it’s going.

After a month of waiting for the server transfer queue situation to settle, Lord of the Rings Online players are finally able to start claiming houses on the brand-new servers this week in a process Standing Stone Games has spread out over multiple days to improve stability. Yesterday afternoon, Belfalas housing opened for the EU 64-bit servers, followed by the same region on the American 64-bit servers. Eastfold and Erebor zones opened for EU earlier today and will open for the Americans tonight, and so forth for the rest of the week as SSG makes its way through the whole matrix of servers and housing zones.

But if you’re wondering how it’s going… that’s more complicated.

We logged in to Glamdring last night after the initial rush to find that while quite a lot of Gondor homes were indeed gone, there were also plenty left – though perhaps not of the most desirable spots. The trickiest part for a late-come kin might be getting a kinhall with lots of kinnie homes in the same spot (always a challenge in LOTRO). Likewise, player reports seem to suggest that Peregrin and Meriadoc still have plenty of good spots left.

Technical issues, however, were most definitely present. According to players on the forums and a few in-game, on the largest servers, some players are experiencing significant lag time between buying a house and actually getting it; some players had to wait hours before they could actually access their homes, while others had to log out and back in. We saw one report from a player who purchased a home and the game took his writs, only to travel there and find it belonged to someone else (oh no). Other players are reporting that their housing escrow and expanded housing chests are inaccessible or missing entirely. And some folks are getting a “bank error in their favor” card instead as they’re reporting duplicate items in their storage. Your lucky day!

That said, the more recent posts suggest that today’s housing situation on the EU servers has gone a bit more smoothly, so maybe there was just far more demand for the super special Gondor islands.

Worth one last note, though not entirely related to housing: SSG has said that at some distant point in the future, it will sort out a way for cross-region transfers to be possible. (There are a lot of Europeans and Russians stuck on Glamdring, for example.)