Hong Kong has one of the most expensive housing markets in the world , with home prices rising 70 percent since 2009 . But a new tangible estate niche market offers greatly disregard home prices , if you ’re willing to bunk with the former resident ’ specter .
Many Hong Kongers conceive that the spectre of mass who died violently , thanks to an accident , murder , or suicide , stalk their former manse and fetch risky fortune to the Modern occupier . As in the US , Hong Kong habitation sellers are required to disclose whether the previous resident decease in the dwelling house , and potential buyer do tight scope checkout less they get stuck with a vengeful purport . The superstition is so permeant that Mary Leontyne Price on haunted homes can be 20 - 40 percent below market .
That kind of discount has brought out some less superstitious speculator , mostly expats front to buy up cheap property in nice neighborhoods . These investors actively follow violent tragedies , hope to snap up a hongza — the Cantonese term for taken up house — of their very own .
The real estate sitesquarefoot.hkhas dozens of macabre real the three estates listing , with astonishingly specific disclosures :
20 days old anorectic female with body weight of 70 lbs , fell and fainted at home . She was found dead in the infirmary .
36 years quondam combust charcoal at home plate due to debt and kinship trouble and was found dead by his mother .
Young female texted and asked her swain to foregather her but he sent his baby instead . Victim jumped off the construction in front of the sister .
67 class old female person blindfolded herself and jumped off the edifice due to her suffering of insomnia .
Add one delightfully sociopathic neighbor , and you ’ve got the recipe for your very own Hong Kong Horror Story .
Top photo by Vasenka .
Buyers target Hong Kong ’s ‘ haunted houses ’ [ AFP viaNerdcore ]
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