Player Housing in World of Warcraft's Midnight Expansion

Key Takeaways

Player Housing is live in World of Warcraft: it was revealed at the Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct on November 13, 2024, and opened fully at the Midnight launch on March 2, 2026.
Homes sit in two neighborhoods, Founder's Point for Alliance and Razorwind Shores for Horde, and an account can own one in each.
Houses are shared Warband-wide and are fully cross-faction, so a Horde character can own a home in the Alliance zone and visit friends across the divide.
Decorating uses Basic and Advanced modes with 3D freeform and grid placement, dyes, resizing, and four exterior kits: Blood Elf, Night Elf, Orc, and Human.
Decor is earned across the whole game through achievements, professions, adventuring, vendors, and the Auction House, with weekly housing quests added in Patch 11.2.7.
You reach your plot through capital portal rooms or the Housing Dashboard, bound to hotkey H, which teleports you home on a 15-minute cooldown.

For more than twenty years, "when are we getting player housing" was the question Blizzard could not shake. The teaser mug that read "Home Sweet Home" is no longer a promise, so here is what the feature actually became.

From teaser mug to live feature

Housing was unveiled as the closing beat of the Warcraft 30th Anniversary Direct on November 13, 2024, not on a stray social post. The teaser trailer walked an adventurer into a furnished home, past the severed head of the dragon Onyxia mounted on the wall, a miniature goblin shredder, and racks of weapons and shields, before they settled by the fire with that now-famous mug.

The rollout came in two stages. Early access arrived with Patch 11.2.7, "The Warning," on December 2, 2025, the final War Within content update, which served as the Midnight Prologue. Players with a Midnight pre-order could build and decorate a home right away, while everyone else could still collect decor. Housing then opened fully at the Midnight launch on March 2, 2026.

Two neighborhoods, one Warband

Every home sits inside a neighborhood. Alliance players settle in Founder's Point, which pairs a central hub with Elwynn-style farmland and Forsaken-style woods, while Horde players build in Razorwind Shores, a tropical stretch off the coast of Durotar.

Ownership is generous. An account can hold up to two houses, one in each neighborhood, and every home is shared across the entire Warband, so all of your characters walk into the same decorated space. It is also fully cross-faction: your allegiance does not lock you out of a neighborhood, and you can visit the homes of friends and guildmates on either side.

📌 A common misread is treating this like Warlords of Draenor Garrisons. Those were solo instanced plots bolted onto one character, while a Midnight home sits in a shared neighborhood you decorate in freeform 3D, so it is a clean break from the Garrison model.

Building and decorating your home

Decorating comes in two tiers. Basic mode snaps objects into place for quick results, while Advanced mode unlocks full 3D freeform and grid placement, letting you rotate, resize, dye select pieces, and stack decor exactly where you want it. Four themed exterior kits, Blood Elf, Night Elf, Orc, and Human, set the shell of the house itself.

Blizzard seeded the launch with themed sets, including the Light-Infused and Void-Corrupted Rotundas and Fountains and four iconic character Paintings. And yes, the Onyxia head from the teaser is a real trophy you can hang.

Where the decor comes from

The collection loop reaches into nearly every system in the game. Decor is earned through:

Achievements and long-running collections
Professions, which craft furniture and fixtures
Adventuring drops from across Azeroth
Vendors and the Auction House
Weekly housing decor quests added in Patch 11.2.7

Because the whole account shares one decor collection, anything a single character earns is available to furnish either home.

Getting to your house

Reaching your plot is quick. Portal rooms in Stormwind and Orgrimmar link to the neighborhoods, and a Housing Dashboard, opened from the mini-menu or the default hotkey H, teleports you straight to your door on a 15-minute cooldown. In practice it behaves like a second hearthstone pointed at home.

What is still on the roadmap

Some pieces are live and some are promised. Guild Neighborhoods, private spaces a guild can settle together, are already part of the system. Blizzard's published housing roadmap points further out to Guild Halls and additional neighborhood expansions, but those are stated future plans rather than features you can walk into today.

If you are returning for housing and want a max-level character to earn decor across the game, you can level a character up for Midnight before you start decorating.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is WoW Player Housing live right now?

Yes. It launched in early access with Patch 11.2.7 on December 2, 2025, and became fully available at the Midnight launch on March 2, 2026. It is no longer speculation or a teaser.

Where are the housing neighborhoods?

There are two starter neighborhoods: Founder's Point for the Alliance and Razorwind Shores for the Horde, the latter set off the coast of Durotar. An account can own one house in each.

Is player housing shared across my characters?

Yes. Homes are shared Warband-wide, so every character on your account enters the same decorated house, and your decor collection is shared across the account as well.

Can Horde and Alliance visit each other's houses?

Yes. Housing is fully cross-faction. You can own a home in the opposite faction's neighborhood and visit the homes of friends and guildmates regardless of faction.

How do you decorate a house in Midnight?

Basic mode snaps decor into place, while Advanced mode adds 3D freeform and grid placement, resizing, and dyes. Four exterior kits, Blood Elf, Night Elf, Orc, and Human, set the house style, and decor is earned across the whole game.

How do you get to your house quickly?

Use the portal rooms in Stormwind and Orgrimmar or the Housing Dashboard on hotkey H, which teleports you to your plot on a 15-minute cooldown.

Last reviewed 2026-07-01 against Patch 12.0.7 Revelations — Maintained by WowCarry's WoW team.