{"id":7383,"date":"2026-05-01T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/ffxiv-housing-lottery-schedule-for-may-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:44:21","slug":"ffxiv-housing-lottery-schedule-for-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/ffxiv-housing-lottery-schedule-for-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"FFXIV housing lottery schedule for May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"is-mobile-hidden\">Updated\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n                                                                May 1, 2026, 12:01\u202fAM EDT\n                            <\/p>\n<p>When is the next entry or results period for the housing lottery?<\/p>\n<p>        Image: Square Enix via Polygon<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re trying to get a house in <em>Final Fantasy 14<\/em>, you\u2019ll need to play the lottery system.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>FFXIV <\/em>lottery system consists of five \u201c<strong>entry period<\/strong>\u201d days, followed by four \u201c<strong>results period<\/strong>\u201d days. You\u2019ll need to place your bid during the entry period days and if you win, finalize your purchase during the results period days. (If you don\u2019t claim your win during the results period, you will forfeit the plot and lose 50% of your deposit. Yikes!)<\/p>\n<p>You can also check where the housing schedule is in game by opening your Timers menu and selecting the housing tab.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re trying to plan ahead, we list out the <strong><em>FFXIV <\/em>housing schedule for May 2026<\/strong> below. Note that our schedule does not take any maintenance times into account, so you may need to bid or claim your house a day or so earlier to accommodate for this.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"4FJVqb\">\n                        <strong>FFXIV housing lottery schedule for May 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s the <em>FFXIV <\/em>housing lottery schedule for this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>April 26 until May 1<\/strong>: Entry period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 1-5<\/strong>: Results period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 5-10<\/strong>: Entry period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 10-14<\/strong>: Results period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 14-19<\/strong>: Entry period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 19-23<\/strong>: Results period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 23-28<\/strong>: Entry period\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>May 28 until June 1<\/strong>: Results period\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The periods change at server reset time, which are the following times depending on your time zone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>8 a.m. PDT<\/strong> for the west coast of North America\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>11 a.m. EDT<\/strong> for the east coast of North America\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>12 p.m. BRT<\/strong> for Brazil\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>4 p.m. BST <\/strong>for the U.K.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>5 p.m. CEST<\/strong> for western Europe\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>The following day at 12 a.m. JST<\/strong> for Japan\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        <strong>The following day at 1 a.m. AEST<\/strong> for the east coast of Australia\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated\u00a0 May 1, 2026, 12:01\u202fAM EDT When is the next entry or results period for the housing lottery? Image: Square Enix via Polygon If you\u2019re trying to get a house in Final Fantasy 14, you\u2019ll need to play the lottery system. The FFXIV lottery system consists of five \u201centry period\u201d days, followed by four \u201cresults<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6497,7262,7263,2812],"class_list":{"0":"post-7383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gaming","8":"tag-ffxiv","9":"tag-housing","10":"tag-lottery","11":"tag-schedule"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}