'From the start of the game you have access to a living neighborhood with 11 homes, 13 non-playable Sim characters, a park with a lake for fishing, and five business/shop buildings.' Sounds like there is no building houses Looks good anyway.
man...i wonder if you can design more people for the neighborhood and if your people get old and die and you control the next generation
I think that document might be old because theres house cusimization in the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbf1ZpCRQE&feature=related I hope to god that u were wrong and that there is house Customization .
I think some people are confusing two different features here. There WILL be home interior customization (buying things like lamps, tvs, and furniture), but whether or not you can change the actually house layout itself (adding new rooms, walls, etc) is the real question.
Actually they addressed this. There is no "mode" where you can build a house from the ground up from the literal ground to the ceiling of the second floor. However, you can upgrade the house from pre built choices such as extra rooms or pools, etc. And I checked again and that video has no house customization at all. They don't even show the house upgrades. On Tuesday, everything will be revealed...