HAUNTED HOUSES, HOT ON THE MARKET?
Hong Kong, one of the world's most populated cities, finding a place to live and even buying a house is very difficult.
While the Hong Kong house market shows no signs of cooling, some people are looking for properties in the market of "haunted houses."
Real estate agents say that these "haunted houses are usually 15 to 20% lower, sometimes up to even 40% lower than market value, because Chinese people don't like houses where something unfortunate have happened, such as accidents, suicide, or homicide cases.
With a yield 3 to 4% higher than normal real estate trading, the market of haunted houses is still very hot.
Most clients who buy haunted houses are people who don't care about the deaths in the houses, or those who can lease the houses to tenants who do not share the same set of beliefs.
Even so, some heavily stigmatized houses are still very difficult to be sold. So what about these houses? Realtors say that all they can do is wait, as time heals all wounds, in hope that fewer and fewer people will remember what happened, and that the value will go up again.
延伸閱讀
- BEYONCE CELEBRATES HER DVD RELEASE2011/12/01
- HSBC PLANS TO AXE 30,000 JOBS2011/08/03
- JACKIE CHAN'S CHARITY EFFORT2011/08/09
- NISSAN TARGETS CHINESE CONSUMERS2011/11/03
- TOO CROWDED TO SURVIVE?2011/10/27
- BRINGING FLORENCE TO TIANJIN?2011/12/02
- GREEKS GO ON 24-HOUR STRIKE2011/12/02
- TAIPEI ASKS GOOGLE TO OFFER 7-DAY TRIAL PERIOD2011/07/06
- JACKIE CHAN'S FILM "1911" OPENS TIFF2011/10/24
- DESIGNER SARAH BURTON GRABS TOP PRIZE2011/12/02
- NEW RELEASES IN TAIWAN2011/12/02
- KWOK AND ZHANG PARTNERING UP IN "LOVE FOR LIFE"2011/06/27







