diff --git a/apps/clubs/src/clubs.app.ts b/apps/clubs/src/clubs.app.ts
index 44f943b..3a1bd93 100644
--- a/apps/clubs/src/clubs.app.ts
+++ b/apps/clubs/src/clubs.app.ts
@@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 	.notFound(withNotFound())
 
 	// The player's home club — the one whose clubhouse they spawn into, stored on their
-	// account. Auth-gated. 404 when they have no home club, the club is gone, or it has
-	// no clubhouse room: the client expects a 404 for "no home club" and errors on an
-	// empty object. Returns the bare club (not the envelope), as the reference does.
+	// account. Auth-gated. A literal JSON `null` (200) when they have no home club, the
+	// club is gone, or it has no clubhouse room — not a 404, and not an empty object.
+	// Returns the bare club (not the envelope), as the reference does.
 	.get(
 		'/club/home/me',
 		describeRoute({
@@ -224,9 +224,9 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 			summary: 'The player’s home club',
 			description: [
 				'The club whose clubhouse the player spawns into (a field on their account row).',
-				'404 when they have no home club, the club is gone, or it has no clubhouse room —',
-				'the client expects a 404 for “no home club” and errors on an empty object. Returns',
-				'the bare club, not the envelope, as the reference does.',
+				'A literal JSON `null` when they have no home club, the club is gone, or it has no',
+				'clubhouse room — not a 404, and not an empty object. Returns the bare club, not',
+				'the envelope, as the reference does.',
 			].join(' '),
 			security: AUTHED,
 			responses: {
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ const app = new Hono<App>()
 			const id = await authedId(c)
 			if (id === null) return c.body(null, 401)
 			const club = await getHomeClub(c.env.DB, id)
-			return club === null ? c.notFound() : c.json(club)
+			return c.json(club)
 		}
 	)
 
diff --git a/apps/clubs/src/test/integration/api.test.ts b/apps/clubs/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
index 6a912be..a72c57d 100644
--- a/apps/clubs/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
+++ b/apps/clubs/src/test/integration/api.test.ts
@@ -78,10 +78,11 @@ describe('clubs endpoints', () => {
 		expect(res.status).toBe(401)
 	})
 
-	test('GET /club/home/me 404s when the player has no home club', async () => {
-		// The client expects a 404 here, and errors on an empty object.
+	test('GET /club/home/me answers a literal null when the player has no home club', async () => {
+		// Not a 404, and not an empty object.
 		const res = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, { headers: await bearer() })
-		expect(res.status).toBe(404)
+		expect(res.status).toBe(200)
+		expect(await res.text()).toBe('null')
 	})
 
 	test('GET /subscription/details/:subscription returns an empty object', async () => {
@@ -777,11 +778,12 @@ describe('clubs endpoints', () => {
 		})
 		const clubId = ((await create.json()) as { value: { ClubId: number } }).value.ClubId
 
-		// No home club yet → 404.
+		// No home club yet → null.
 		const before = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, {
 			headers: await bearer('9100'),
 		})
-		expect(before.status).toBe(404)
+		expect(before.status).toBe(200)
+		expect(await before.json()).toBeNull()
 
 		// You must be a member of the club you're making your home.
 		expect((await form('/club/home/me', 'PUT', `clubId=${clubId}`, '9101')).status).toBe(403)
@@ -793,11 +795,11 @@ describe('clubs endpoints', () => {
 		expect(set.status).toBe(200)
 		expect(await set.json()).toMatchObject({ error: '', success: true })
 
-		// The club has no clubhouse room yet, so there's still nowhere to spawn → 404.
+		// The club has no clubhouse room yet, so there's still nowhere to spawn → null.
 		const noClubhouse = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, {
 			headers: await bearer('9100'),
 		})
-		expect(noClubhouse.status).toBe(404)
+		expect(await noClubhouse.json()).toBeNull()
 
 		// Give it a clubhouse → the home club now resolves.
 		const clubhouse = await form(`/club/${clubId}/clubhouse`, 'PUT', 'roomId=77', '9100')
@@ -825,7 +827,7 @@ describe('clubs endpoints', () => {
 		const cleared = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, {
 			headers: await bearer('9100'),
 		})
-		expect(cleared.status).toBe(404)
+		expect(await cleared.json()).toBeNull()
 
 		// DELETE clears it too, ignoring any body it's sent.
 		await form(`/club/${clubId}/clubhouse`, 'PUT', 'roomId=88', '9100')
@@ -846,9 +848,10 @@ describe('clubs endpoints', () => {
 		expect(dropped.status).toBe(200)
 		expect(await dropped.json()).toEqual({ error: '', success: true, value: null })
 		expect(
-			(await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, { headers: await bearer('9100') }))
-				.status
-		).toBe(404)
+			await (
+				await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/home/me`, { headers: await bearer('9100') })
+			).json()
+		).toBeNull()
 		// Still a member of the club they'd made their home.
 		const mine = (await (
 			await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/club/mine/member`, { headers: await bearer('9100') })