 Ankh-Morpork
The Real Estate office for Ankh-Morpork is located on King's Down, the street running from Deosil Gate to the Isle of Gods The main branch, which is the first room off the street, handles rentals within Ankh-Morpork. You must be a citizen of Ankh-Morpork before you can rent or lease property within the city. The Council Chambers are located on Speedwell Street in Ankh and you may apply for citizenship there. Nationality and citizenship are unrelated. You must be four days old before you can apply and you will need a sponsor who is over ten days and already a citizen. See the Council section of the Discworld MUD website for more information. The Rental and Sales Tax in Ankh-Morpork are also set by the council and are currently set at 1.25% There is almost always fierce competition for Ankh-Morpork housing, but it has its advantages. Most notably: Thieves Guild quota rules apply for any thefts in Ankh-Morpork, including burglary. Before you can bid for an Ankh-Morpork property you will need to pay a deposit fee. pay This fee is set by the magistrates and is currently rated at A$50 per room. The fee for shops is five times the single room amount for houses. If you are unsuccessful at the auction, or when you claim your new property the money will be refunded to a prominent NPC bank at which you have an account. If you are successful and fail to claim the property the money will be lost.
pay {deposit|fee} on <auction id> pay {deposit|fee} on <auction id> club <club name> check deposit on <auction id> The Ankh-Morpork Real Estate Offices (both main and forn) are staffed by real estate receptionists.
If you kill a receptionist you will be unable to bid in Ankh-Morpork for three roundworld months. Saying blacklist will let you know the date your blacklisting ends in disc time. The blacklisting only affects your ability to bid. You can still list the properties, browse them, claim them and request new rental agreements. Bes Pelargic
Real Estate Office is on Street of the Smiling Dog in the Pong Ping District, near the Hall of Records. You are required to be a citizen of Agatea before you can bid. Bes Pelargic does not have a local council; to apply for citizenship you must undertake a written test in the Hall of Heroes. Southeast room off the main court. apply Standard non-council tax rates of 10% apply. The Djelibeybi real estate office is located on Market Street, just west of northwest corner of The Bazaar. You need to be a citizen of Djelibeybi to be eligable to bid for a property here. You need to be 10 days old to apply as a citizen in Djelibeybi and may not be a citizen of any other nation. Sponsors need to be 20 days old. It is illegal under local law to directly rent more than two houses in Djelibeybi. It is illegal under local law to sub-let a Djelibeybi property to a non-citizen. It is illegal under local law to bid on a shop within Djelibeybi unless you are acting as an authorised government representative. It is legal to sub-let additional properties and/or to own additional properties outside of Djelibeybi. Sales and Rental Tax are set by the council and are currently set to 0%. For more information see the player councils section of the Discworld MUD website. Ramtops
Ramtops housing is handled by the real estate stall in Lancre Town, just north of the General Store, west side of market. This stall covers both Lancre Kingdom and Uberwald properties. There is no citizenship requirment for Ramtops housing, but it is only available to those who do not already possess either a house or a shop. If you already own property anywhere on the disc you will not be able to bid. This includes not being able to bid on a shop if you have a house and vice-versa.
Ramtops houses usually run faily cheap for this reason and are quite prolific in any case. There are houses and shops everywhere from Ohulan-Cutash to Escrow. Standard non-council tax rates of 10% apply. Sto Plains and Skund Forest
The Real Estate office for Ankh-Morpork is located on King's Down, the street running from Deosil Gate to the Isle of Gods. It contains two rooms, the city office and the 'forn' office which is the second room off the street. The 'forn' office handles rentals for the Sto Plains and Skund Forest and attracts the standard non-council tax of 10% in addition to whatever you bid. Properties handled by the this office relate to the Sto Plains and Skund Forest and are extremely thin in the ground.
As I recall there are fewer than five properties in the entire Sto/Skund region.
There is no citizenship requirment for the forn office properties, nor is there a limit on how many properties you may own.
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