or Riften? because both are amongst my favorite cities.

So what must i do to get a house in Markarth?

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house in those two cities wont be available for purchase till you help 3 citizens in each of those cities and become thane. speak to Stuarts or Jars to see what quests you have to do i order to become thane in those two cities. i believe in markarth you have to be lev 20 to get thane quests from jarl and in riften you have to finish skuma quest for jarl in order for her to offer you to become thane

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You have to be to get the markarth house and complete certain quests. Here is a link explaining: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Vlindrel_Hall

Getting the quests for the Rifton house is tricky, since you have to do more than just talk to the jarl to get the right quest. Details are here: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Honeyside

Markarth is especially tricky, if I remember right. One quest requires you to be locked up and escape from Skyrim's version of Alcatraz.

Nope, you must own the houses first before the Jarls will offer you the title of Thane, and doing favors for citizens (5, not 3, to be exact) is also a requirement for becoming Thane but not for buying the house in Markarth. In Riften the Jarl will not offer you the house unless you have already done the favor quests, but you must still buy the house as a prerequisite to becoming Thane.

For Markarth, if Igmund is still Jarl you need to do a favor quest for him which typically involves retrieving a family heirloom from a Forsworn camp (and IIRC killing the Forsworn leader there. You must be level 20 or above before he will offer you the quest.

If you are doing the Civil War for the Stormcloaks and this has resulted in Throngvar Silver-Blood becoming Jarl instead, he may offer you the option to buy the Markarth house as a reward for your military service instead of requiring you to complete a favor quest. At least this is what happened to me on my last two SC characters. I don't know if it requires that the war be finished, or if having given Markarth to the SCs in the ceasefire negotations instead of taking it militarily makes a difference.

In Riften you must complete three quests for the Jarl involving the local Skooma trade (and, as noted above, do the five favors for citizens that also get you the Thane title) before she will offer you the house there. The first of the three quests is no big deal but AFAIK it's the only way to progress to the next one.

See here for details on the house in Markarth: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Vlindrel_Hall

and here for details on the one in Riften: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Honeyside


There is such a quest in Markarth but it doesn't have anything to do with buying a house there, other than the fact that completing it can sometimes bug out your dialogue with the Jarl there making it impossible to get the quest that actually does lead to buying the house.

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If I remember correctly, in order to become Thane, you need to help out citizens (the amount depends on the size of the city, I believe the major cities require 5, smaller cities require 3), finish the Jarl's specific quest (usually obtained by talking to them or their housecarl, exception being Riften iirc), and buying a house, if it's available. There are some exceptions, though; Breezehome is only available after you become Thane, not before it.

The one in Riften always messes me up because it doesn't work like the others. I always stand there thinking "I've dealt with your skooma problem, NOW GIVE ME HOUSE YOU DAFT BINT" and then I remember that I have to go do all the favors first because the Riften Jarl likes to lump it all together. Everywhere else you can buy the house and then ask them if there's anything else and THEN they'll bring up the "help my people" bit. In Riften she never tells you to do it, you just have to have done it already and then she'll say what a good reputation you have there in addition to the skooma thing and offer you the house.

@OP: if you do buy the house in Riften, go right back to the Jarl IMMEDIATELY and get your Thane title (if you want it). There's a bug where if you buy the house and visit it before becoming Thane, the Jarl will never get around to offering you the title again when you speak to her. I don't know if any patches fixed that or not but I never take any chances with it.

Nah, Breezehome is available for purchase as soon as you finish the Bleak Falls Barrow quest for Balgruuf (and Farengar). The hitch is that you rarely get to buy it then because the next quest triggers as soon as you hand over the Dragonstone and then before you know it you're off to kill a dragon. After you get back from that, Balgruuf makes you Thane immediately. Technically it should be possible to buy the house before becoming Thane, but that would require you to hang around Dragonsreach talking real estate with the steward while everyone else stands around with their arms folded, tapping their feet and staring at you and clearing their throats rather loudly and wondering why your sudden interest in home ownership is a bigger priority than the dragon that is currently attacking the hold.