Would you live at a murder scene to bag a house price discount?

19 August 2013

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There's a flat on sale in North London at a reported £100,000 discount to other similar properties because a serial killer committed his murders there. We wanted to test your attitudes to prior property history. In which of the following circumstances would you NEVER buy even at a big discount (click all that apply)?

There's a flat on sale in North London at a reported £100,000 discount to other similar properties because a serial killer committed his murders there. We wanted to test your attitudes to prior property history.

In which of the following circumstances would you NEVER buy even at a big discount (click all that apply)?

Results

A former prime minister lived there		386 votes (3 %)
A known criminal lived there		3,014 votes (23 %)
A serial killer lived in the property		5,609 votes (43 %)
It was a brothel		3,657 votes (28 %)
It was used as a drug den		5,605 votes (43 %)
It’s a sale after a repossession		347 votes (3 %)
It’s full of damp		7,062 votes (55 %)
It’s in a flood risk area		9,865 votes (76 %)
It’s in a high crime area		9,755 votes (75 %)
It’s in serious disrepair		4,618 votes (36 %)
It’s subsiding		10,032 votes (78 %)
None of those options worry me		440 votes (3 %)
Someone recently died at the property		1,438 votes (11 %)
There was a murder in the property		5,460 votes (42 %)

12,937 people have selected 67,288 options (percentages are the number who voted for that topic of the total people who have voted, so won't add up to 100%).

We try to use technology to limit voting to one per person. Occasionally, this may erroneously block a few people's votes (eg, from shared offices). Apologies for that.