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Sims 4 – Free Real Estate Cheat (Free houses!)

Get a mansion without breaking the bank!

It can be a slow and challenging process to walk your Sims through life, saving money to get the house and items you want. If you aren't looking to go through the beginning motions for another time or don't have the time to work from the bottom up, there are ways you can purchase your dream house right from the start––with the Free Real Estate cheat!

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How to get a house for free in Sims 4 - Free Real Estate Cheat guide

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To buy or move into a new home, whether you're starting a new game or moving residencies, go to the Manage World menu. This is where you can see available houses and lots with a green outline around them. When you're starting a new game, you only get a budget of $20,000 (unless you use Sims stories in CAS), and the more expensive houses will always warn you that you can't afford them.

To get around this, do the following:

  1. Press CTRL, Shift, and C to open the cheat menu on PC, or L-Bumper, R-Bumper, L-Trigger, and R-Trigger on a console controller (this opens a white box on the top left side of the screen)
  2. Type in testingcheats true
  3. Then type freerealestate on

How to move into a free house in The Sims 4

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After typing the cheat into the command window, you should see a message in the cheat box saying Free Real Estate on. This means all lot options will now be available for free, regardless of how much money you have. Go ahead and click on the house that you want to get a closer look at.

Notice that now, when you go to purchase the home, it will still list your remaining funds as the amount you had entered the world with. You won't use any of your own money to buy the lot.

It's also possible to go into build mode beforehand and add whatever items you want to your desired house before purchasing. This way, you'll get everything for free! Press the Purchase Home button to jump into your free house and begin playing.

Related: How to do the Sims 4 Satisfaction Points Cheat

Why isn't the Free Real Estate cheat working in The Sims 4?

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There are a few reasons why the cheat wouldn't work for you, and in most cases, it's because you have all cheats turned off. However, be sure you are typing it in correctly––usually, there are never any spaces between the words except for the 'true' and 'on.'

Always ensure you first type in the command: testingcheats true before you type in the other cheat. If that isn't working, go into your Options-Game Options, and switch to the Other tab. Be sure that the Scripts Mods Allowed is check-marked.

If it already is check-marked and it still isn't working, uncheck it, re-enable, apply changes, and restart your game to see if it is fixed. If this doesn't manage to fix things, it may be a deeper problem with your game that might require you to re-install the game.

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