WoW Housing Guide: House Level, Neighborhoods, Endeavors

To level up your house in WoW Midnight, earn Housing XP by collecting new decor (uncommon quality or better) and by finishing Endeavor tasks in your neighborhood, then speak to Jorvan Longmoor in Founder's Point or Rotha in Razorwind Shores. The cap has been House Level 12 since patch 12.1.0, and each level raises your decor and room budgets and unlocks new rooms or exteriors. This guide covers the level table, the fastest XP sources, how neighborhoods and plots work, Endeavors, blueprints and the housing changes in patch 12.1.5.

Checked against Blizzard's 12.1.5 update notes, the BlizzCon 2026 panel recap and Warcraft Wiki on November 12, 2026.

How do you level up your house in WoW?

Housing XP has two sources: collecting a piece of uncommon or higher decor for the first time, and completing Endeavor tasks. When you have enough XP, the level does not apply automatically; you talk to the housing NPC to raise it.

• Alliance district (Founder's Point): Jorvan Longmoor
• Horde district (Razorwind Shores): Rotha

To find decor that still grants XP, open the Housing UI (default key H), go to a decor page and filter for items marked "First-Time Collection Bonus Available." Decor is collected account-wide, so every new piece your alts earn also counts.

House Level is the only way to raise your interior decor budget and your room budget, so it is the main progression in housing. Exterior limits also rise with level.

What does each House Level unlock?

Every level raises your budgets, and several add a new room shape or exterior size. The XP column is the total needed to reach that level.

Level	Total XP	Exterior budget	Interior budget	Room budget	Unlock
1	0	200	910	19	Initial room collection
2	10	200	1,155	24	Square Room (Medium)
3	1,200	250	1,450	30	Daylight Circle Room
4	2,400	250	1,745	36	Octagon Room (Large)
5	3,700	300	2,050	43	Square Room (Large), Evening Circle Room
6	5,700	300	2,360	50	Hearthlight Armillary (ambient lighting)
7	7,900	350	3,180	68	Budget increase
8	10,300	350	3,500	76	Medium-size house exteriors
9	12,900	350	4,340	95	Budget increase
10	15,700	350	4,675	104	Treasures from Distant Lands (1 Arcanostorage Sphere per week)
11	18,700	350	5,545	124	Budget increase
12	21,900	350	5,975	134	Large-size house exteriors

Values come from Warcraft Wiki's housing page. The Daylight and Evening Circle rooms have a sky box that makes the room feel like it is outdoors. If you reached level 3 or 5 earlier and never received them, a July hotfix granted them retroactively.

What is the fastest way to get Housing XP?

Chase first-time decor collections and keep up with your neighborhood's Endeavor. Those are the only two XP sources, so efficiency means picking the cheapest new decor and the Endeavor tasks you already do.

1. Do the Endeavor tasks that match your normal play. Many tasks are generic gameplay (dungeons, raids, crafting, gathering), and they award Housing XP on top of their other rewards.
2. Hunt decor you do not own. Achievements, vendors, reputations and drops all give decor. Each first collection of an uncommon or better piece gives XP.
3. Use your alts. Collection is account-wide, so decor from alt activities still counts toward your houses.
4. Pick up the Housing weekly. Icy Veins' weekly checklist points to a Housing weekly quest from Vaeli outside the Silvermoon bank.
5. Check crafted decor. Several professions gained new decor recipes in Season 2, and patch 12.1.5 cut the cost of all crafted decor from pre-Midnight professions.

Other activities also hand out decor: the Aqir Invasion vendor sells decor for Voidlight Marl, and the Labyrinth of Kindo'jan hides decor in its chests. See the Labyrinth guide for where to find it.

How do you get a house and choose a plot?

Housing unlocks with the Midnight expansion. On login you get the quest A House For You, which leads to the housing districts through the portal rooms in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.

• The intro chain is A House For You, My First Home, Welcome Home and Time to Decorate.
• Pick any open plot on the map and claim it from the signpost (Cornerstone) at the front.
• Your account can own two houses: one in Founder's Point and one in Razorwind Shores. Both are shared by every character in your Warband.
• The districts are faction-themed, but either faction can live, build and shop in either one.
• You can move your house later from the sign in front of it. Moving keeps all your decoration and layout.

To get home quickly, use the Teleport Home button on the Housing Dashboard (15 minute cooldown) or the Neighborhood Portal in the Stormwind or Orgrimmar portal room.

How do you customize your house exterior?

Exteriors use themed kits. Orc and Blood Elf kits work in the Horde neighborhood, and Human and Night Elf kits work in the Alliance one. After choosing a kit you can change the base and roof style, roof color, windows and wall fixtures. House Level 8 unlocks medium-size exteriors and level 12 unlocks large ones.

Each plot has a large yard. Some big pieces such as gazebos, market stalls and fountains can only go outside, but most interior decor also works in the yard. Since patch 12.0.7, lighting decor can be placed outdoors with some restrictions, and since patch 12.1.0 you can move the entry room anywhere in the house, including other floors.

How do neighborhoods work?

A neighborhood is an instanced zone with 50 plots and a town center with vendors, upgrade NPCs, dye trainers and portals. When one fills up, a new instance opens.

Type	Who can join	How to create
Public	Anyone	Default; you are placed in one with open plots
Charter	Invited players only	Get a charter from the housing steward and collect 10 signatures
Guild	Guild members only	Guild master creates it; the guild needs at least 10 active members

In a guild neighborhood, leaving the guild removes your house from that neighborhood. Guilds larger than 50 get another layer when the first fills. Founder's Point blends Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Redridge and Duskwood scenery, while Razorwind Shores sits off the coast of Durotar with Barrens, Azshara and tropical biomes.

How do Endeavors work?

Endeavors are month-long neighborhood events with a theme. Everyone in the neighborhood completes tasks that fill a shared progress bar, and each milestone unlocks new vendors, decor, quests and tasks.

• Rewards: tasks pay gold, character XP, Housing XP, crests and Community Coupons. Coupons are Warbound and can be spent at any Endeavor vendor, including in other neighborhoods.
• Group credit: if three or more neighbors from the same neighborhood group up, tasks done in that group count for the neighborhood bar.
• Scaling: task requirements scale with neighborhood size, so small neighborhoods can still finish.
• Choosing: public neighborhoods get a server-picked Endeavor; private ones let the Neighborhood Manager choose. Priority Endeavors tied to holidays or story events go to every neighborhood.
• Rewards chest: earned rewards sit in the Endeavor Chest next to the bulletin board and Neighborhood Steward.

Completing Endeavors also raises Neighborhood Favor, a neighborhood-wide Renown track whose perks include a higher decor item limit for every house. Since patch 12.1, completed Endeavors also leave permanent changes in the neighborhood.

What changed in housing with patch 12.1.5?

Patch 12.1.5 was a quality-of-life pass for builders:

• Page Up and Page Down now move between floors in floorplan edit mode.
• The Blueprint control button at the top of the screen opens your Blueprints collection directly.
• Public Neighborhoods no longer receive the same Endeavor back-to-back.
• Exporting a stairwell now includes every vertically connected stairwell room, and importing lets you attach it from the top or bottom floor.
• Blueprint contents lists only the dyes you actually need to consume.
• Crafted decor from pre-Midnight professions costs less to make.

Blueprints arrived in patch 12.1 and let you save, share and import a single room, a full build or an exterior through a code. Single-room blueprints work for either faction and only need enough decor budget.

What housing features are coming next?

At BlizzCon 2026, Blizzard announced these housing additions for Eclipse, Midnight's final major content update. No release date is set.

• Showcase: browse featured homes from the Housing Dashboard, submit a snapshot of your own home, and share a Visitor Code. Some Showcase events offer exclusive decor.
• Mannequins: place one and dress it in any appearance you have unlocked.
• Copy-paste and multi-select for decor, including size, rotation and dye.
• Buying more copies of decor you already own from inside your home.
• Four new Endeavors, including the Stormriders of the Isle of Dorn.

Related guides

• Best professions in Midnight Season 2
• Delves and Labyrinth of Kindo'jan guide
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