This browser is not actively supported anymore. For the best passle experience, we strongly recommend you upgrade your browser.
| less than a minute read

Haunted Real Estate: Half of Homeowners Would Sell House Believed to Have Ghosts

A recent study finds that a significant portion of Americans believe they've lived in a haunted house - and that this has a material impact on real estate values.

Online real estate marketplace Realtor.com commissioned Toluna Research to poll 1,000 consumers about how they would react to finding out they had inherited a “haunted house.” More than half of respondents were spooked by the idea, with 51% saying they would sell the house immediately, and another 6% saying they would have the house torn down. Others said they would try to rectify the situation, as 23% said they would try renovating the house to see if that would make the house less frightful. But 20% said they’d shrug it off and would live in the house as planned.

Tags

real estate