Reset Realms

Me and my friend are playing an online save, so I'm not certain this also happens with an offline game, but every time we change realms using the at-home portals it resets the realm we chose and sends us to an essentially untouched realm. For example, we tried to move items from our house in Sylvan's Cradle to our new homes in Walken's Reach. When we went through the portal at our old home, our loadstars we had placed at our new homes were not on the travel menu. My friend even walked all the way to where he had placed his new house and it was completely gone. This issue was fixed when he had fast traveled to his respite which he had thankfully placed at his Walken's Reach home. I have thankfully not moved my respite from our Sylvan's Cradle home so we can still have access to all our materials and building supplies, but this feels very game breaking if you could just leave important items into a chest and change realms and then lose it completely. To also add, we have tested if it's a matter of which player opens the portal, but it does not change the outcome.