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‘Haunted Apartments’ Go for Cheap in Hong Kong
By Michelle Yun Nov 11, 2014 5:00 PM CT
The J Residence tower, center, stands in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong,
China, on Nov. 4, 2014.
There’s a grim phenomenon in Hong Kong’s real estate market: discounts of
as much as 50 percent for home-seekers willing to live in an apartment where
a murder has occurred.
Unnatural deaths typically result in rental discounts of 10 percent to 20
percent and can be more than double that for sinister killings, according to
Sammy Po, head of the residential department of realtor Midland Holdings
Ltd. (1200) Chinese believe such places, known as “hung jaak,” the
Cantonese term for “haunted apartments,” are unlucky, he said.
“The Chinese really do care” about living in these places, Po said.
The rent for a Wan Chai district apartment where police found two women’s
bodies on Nov. 1, HK$29,000 ($3,740) a month at the time of the murders,
will probably drop by half when it’s released from being a crime scene,
cleaned and rented again, according to a director of the company that owns
the unit, who didn’t want his name or firm identified because he isn’t
permitted to speak publicly. The sales value of the unit in the luxury J
Residence would decline from HK$9 million to HK$6 million if it were sold
immediately, the person said.
Hong Kong had almost 190 sites where an unnatural death took place,
including murders and suicides, this year, according to a database compiled
by Squarefoot.com.hk.
Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
A commuter walks past a Centaline Property Agency Ltd. office in Hong Kong,
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Squarefoot lists the date of the incident, the address, the district and a
brief description of the death. Among recent listings were an apartment
where an 18-year-old male student slipped a plastic bag over his head last
month and jumped to his death; one where a middle-aged couple, plagued by
financial troubles, committed suicide by inhaling burning coal smoke; and
another where a mother was hacked to death by a mentally unstable neighbor
while protecting her two daughters.
Less Stigma
Hong Kong is certainly not the only place where home-seekers can be wary of
a residence marred by tragedy. Nevertheless, in a comparably high-demand
market like New York City, the stigma is less marked, according to Jonathan
Miller, president of real estate appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. in Manhattan.
Where sales inventory in the city is scarce and rents are near records, a
crime or other negative event wouldn’t have much effect on price, he said.
Hong Kong property agents aren’t required by law to disclose if a death
occurred in a unit, but they should provide information when asked under the
industry’s code of ethics, according to the Estate Agents Authority, a
government agency. Potential tenants or buyers should ask whether a suicide
or homicide took place because there’s no legal definition of a “haunted
property,” the agency said in an e-mailed response.
Priciest Market
Hong Kong is otherwise Asia’s priciest real estate market. Private
residential rents hit a record high in August, reaching almost HK$25 a
square foot, or HK$12,500 for a 500-square-foot apartment, according to
Midland. Hong Kong is the world’s most-expensive city after London for
multinational companies to base staff because of its real estate, according
to property brokerage Savills Plc.
C S Group, a Hong Kong property-services firm, is auctioning a 550-square-
foot “hung jaak” on Nov. 18 with a starting price of HK$3.18 million ($410
,120), according to its website. An apartment of the same size in the same
complex sold last month for almost 27 percent more, or HK$4.33 million,
according to data from Midland.
Superstition and geomancy beliefs run deep. Hong Kong people also shun sites
close to cemeteries, hospitals and churches, which can be considered
unlucky. Buildings typically omit the fourth floor because the number is a
homonym for the Chinese word for death. Property developers rely on feng
shui, which translates as “wind and water,” the Chinese practice of
arranging the physical environment in harmony according to beliefs about
energy and design.
“For those growing up in Hong Kong, feng shui is hammered into your mind,
even if you don’t believe or understand it,” said Ng Wai-pok, a former
lecturer of feng shui at the University of Hong Kong. “A large part of it
is psychological, but there is also the metaphysical.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Michelle Yun in Hong Kong at myun11@
bloomberg.net
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