How to get a house

There are two possibilities to obtain your first ESO Housing, one way is to complete the quest “A friend in Need”. Once completed you will get a free room in an inn that you can use and teleport to. The second way would be to simply purchase a home from the crown store, that way you won't spend any ingame resources. You can either purchase it via crowns, or with in-game gold. Just teleport to it and you will be able to see the purchase options.

How big are the houses?

There are a variety of different types of houses and they also have different requirements to acquire them. For example, the inn room you get for free from the “A Friend in Need” quest, it can hold 15 furnishings, 1 trophy bust and 1 mount, pet or assistant. You can also purchase the other two rooms in the inn from the other alliances for 3000 gold. All the limits in your houses double once you have an active subscription to ESO for your ESO Housing.
Apartments can range from 11k-13k gold. Before you can purchase any of the apartment houses, you need to have finished the “A Friend in Need” quest. In these apartments you can place 50 furnishings, 1 trophy bust and 1 mount, pet or assistant. Like before, if you have ESO Plus, these values double.

Small house prices range from 40k-70k, medium houses from 190k-335k and large houses from 760k-1295k gold. Yes, that is a lot of gold that you need to acquire ingame, especially if you are a new player. I would recommend starting slow and then work your way up there, once you are experienced enough it won't be difficult to make plenty of gold. Also, a lot of the housing furnishings are extremely expensive, especially the good looking ones, that means you have another gold sink..

Manors are another extra type of houses, they are basically the luxury category. The prices of these houses range from 3775k-3785k. You will also gain an unique achievement once you unlock the manors. In the manors you can place 350 furnishings, 40 trophy busts, 5 mounts, pets or assistants. Like always, the value doubles with ESO Plus.

Unique Crown Store houses can only be obtained through the Crown Store. These houses are also considered notable houses, therefore have the same limits as manors. These houses are usually very expensive, a common price in the Crown Store is for example 15000 Crowns.