Buyers' feelings about houses, or land or condo's or buildings with haunted reputations are a little more difficult to pin down. Although not everyone believes in ghosts, buyers should be made aware if the house has a neighborhood, local or national reputation for being haunted. Some Haunted houses as Amityville, Lalaurie Mansion, and The Myrtles Plantation seem to be the most well known world wide. But what about the local are ones that neighbors talk of in hushed tones. Is that the one for you?

Stigmatized-property laws vary greatly by state, by the way, in part because stigmas relate to strongly varying perceptions, values and religious beliefs. Texas property codes don't address this type of issue. Other states say psychological stigmas are simply not material to a home transaction and allow sellers to omit their disclosure without liability. California laws, for example, say sellers and agents don't have to disclose a death -- even a murder -- that happened three or more years before the sale.

But in the world today there are many who would love to own or live in a real haunted house.

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What's A Stigmatized Home?

Stigmatized property is a term used in the real estate business which describes possible detrimental features of a property or home, all the result of unfortunate occurrences. These can include murder, suicide or even AIDS, in addition to a belief that a house may be haunted.

It's not easy to sell a house inhabited by a ghost. Or a property that's been the scene of a ghastly crime or suicide. There are properties which are in flawless physical condition but may nevertheless present unusual marketing issues. For instance, homes which have been the site of murders, suicides, or which are reportedly inhabited by ghosts, or voodoo spells are known as "stigmatized" properties. This is a home with a condition which is psychological in nature rather than a matter of bricks and mortar.

Spain’s spiritual home, a famous haunted house in the southern province of Jaén, was put for sale and attracted huge interest from those desperate for ready-made tenants - a cast of ghosts whose faces appear on floors and walls.

Owner, María Gómez, had discovered human faces in the concrete floor 30 years earlier and it had became so famous that queues of visitors formed every weekend.

The Bélmez Faces (also called The Faces of Bélmez) is considered by some parapsychologists the best-documented and "without doubt the most important paranormal phenomenon [in the 20th] century". Located at the Pereira family home at Street Real 5, Bélmez de la Moraleda, Jaén, Spain, the Bélmez faces have been responsible for bringing large numbers of sightseers to Bélmez. Starting in 1971, people have claimed to see images of faces that continuously and unexplainably form and disappear on the floor of the Pereiras' home.

Wall face” appearance, purportedly paranormal but probably made by human hands, of the famous House of the Faces in Spain. Cesar Tort, took the photo in February 1992 with the permission of the owner of the house: María Gómez Cámara.

These faces, and many more which have already disappeared, have been appearing at irregular intervals in the past thirty-five years and have been frequently photographed by the local newspapers and curious visitors. Many Bélmez residents believe that the faces were not made by human hands, which has led some investigators to conjecture that it is a thoughtographic phenomenon unconsciously produced by the owner of the house, María Gómez Cámara. ("Thoughtography" is considered a form of psychokinesis among parapsychologists.)

On the other hand, skeptical researchers point out that, as the faces of Bélmez are fixed on whitewash of cement, unlike other psychic claims a qualified authority can offer a dictum on the molecular changes that take place in such mass of concrete; as well as experts in conjuring. Skeptics have performed extensive tests on the faces and maintain they have demonstrated that fakery has been involved.

Eventually a two-metre trench was dug, revealing bones from a 13th-century graveyard.

The subject of stigmatized houses is complex. While some people may want a house with a ghost, others do not. The subject gets tangled even further when one is asked whether murders and suicides at a property must be disclosed. Even though a particular buyer may not care about any stigma attached to the property, the stigma may make it very difficult to resell in the future. Therefore, while a buyer may or may not believe in supernatural phenomena, he/she may want to know about a property's bloody past. However, depending on the jurisdiction of the house, the seller may not be required to disclose the full facts.

In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz and their children moved into 112 Ocean Avenue, a Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood located on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had shot dead six members of his family at the house. After 28 days the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there.

Over the years, rumors have abounded which claim to prove the Amityville case a fraud. How these rumors started and how they became so ubiquitous is unclear; what is clear is that The Warrens saw the house for themselves, and experienced some of the phenomena which occurred. They have photographs and reports which show remarkable proof of the existence of very remarkable phenomena in that house.

http://www.warrens.net/amityvill.htm

Amityville's Most Haunted House?

The Amityville Horror is a best-selling book by the author Jay Anson which was published in September 1977. The book has also formed the basis of a series of films made between 1979 and 2005. The story is allegedly based on real life events, but has caused controversy over the reliability of many of its claims.

The rules on this matter vary by state -- some say a given condition must be disclosed, others say "no," some say disclosure is not necessary after so many years, and some states say nothing one way or the other. For specifics, please speak with a broker or real estate attorney in your community. Realty Agents back the practice of disclosure, as they do not want fingers pointed at them in the event a major issue is discovered after closing and a lawsuit entails. This can lead to bad press about the agents and brokers. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) would like to see some form of disclosure mandated in every state. According to the NAR, one of the largest areas of controversy in the process of buying and selling a home is the failure to disclose the defects in the property.

Real-estate professionals call homes tainted by murder, sex scandals or messy divorce "stigmatized properties." While they make up a sliver of the market, they have been the subject of academic research, provided fodder for lawsuits and posed a challenge for brokers. State real-estate agent and appraisal groups regularly include the subject in seminars, and the National Association of Realtors® publishes a "Field Guide to Dealing with Stigmatized Property," offering insights on everything from how to market and sell stigmatized homes to dealing with buyer reluctance to own them. One scandal-dampening suggestion from the guide's "tool kit": Enhance the home's facade by painting it or replanting shrubs and flowers.

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There are different degrees of stigma, of course. Appraisers and brokers say murder -- in particular, multiple homicides and cult killings -- is by far the toughest kind of notoriety to minimize. Suicides and hauntings come next, followed by illicit sex and celebrity infidelities. When bold-face names aren't involved, hanky-panky appears to have little impact. "If real-estate values were hurt for every house where the owners were unfaithful, we'd have a fire sale out here," says Steven Gaines of East Hampton, N.Y., author of 1999's "Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons."

 

The most haunted building in the city of New Orleans, story told by Matthew Yaddoshi of Haunted History Tours, New Orleans, August 2005. After you hear the above haunted tale of the Lalaurie Mansion. Think about it. would you buy it if it was for sale? And what would your motives be?

James A. Willis, a Columbus-based paranormal investigator, sees it all the time. He's the founder and director of the Ghosts of Ohio Inc., a nonprofit organization that researches alleged hauntings by using the latest ghost-busting technology. More than 425 Ohio homeowners have reported unearthly appearances and other creepy stuff to his Web site, http://www.ghostsofohio.org, since Willis' organization was established in 1998.

He estimates that half of the reports are probably bogus. But the other half keep Willis and his team of volunteer investigators busy with their infrared cameras and thermometers, electromagnetic field testers and other scientific equipment.

"One of the most common fears our clients have is that the data we collect on their homes will be made public ? which it never is. They absolutely don't want their property listed as stigmatized," Willis said.

The Myrtles Plantation has a haunted value to paranormal investigators world wide. Would you buy it if it was for sale?

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Spain's most famous haunted house has been put up for sale. 5 Real Street, in the village of Bélmez de la Moraleda sports a host of faces and body outlines that have appeared on the concrete floors. Efforts to remove the outlines have result in the appearance of more of these ghostly outlines on the floor. When a trench was dug a 13th century graveyard was uncovered containing bones, although the skulls were missing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/silly/story/0,,1277785,00.html

Colleen Meyers' Has a home for sale in Sioux Falls South Dakota. She claims to have seen a series of haunting visions, such as floating furniture, and ghostly apparitions. She is hoping to get $225,000 USD from the sale of her home on E-bay. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-10-30-haunted-ebay-house_x.htm

If Ray Ronson has his way then Tom the ghost will always have a home in Barry, South Wales. Mr. Ronson first noticed the ghost just after they moved into the home. He says he has become accustomed to the specter and wants it written into the sales contract that the ghost will not be exercised from the home. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/1035839.stm

But not all cursed houses go up in value. Serial killer Fred West’s Cromwell Street home in Gloucester was bulldozed two years after it was discovered he’d buried victims including members of his own family under the foundations.

This House is "reportedly haunted." "Instead of a Hot Tub, we have a real live ghost"!

In New York, some ghostly precedent was set in the small town of Nyack, where a buyer placed earnest money on a mansion he later found to be haunted -- at least in the experience of the former owner. She had advertised it thusly to promote her bed-and-breakfast operation there, even describing various resident ghosts in detail, in local and national media reports. Because of the public statements, New York's Supreme Court ruled the buyer wasn't given all the facts during disclosure and ordered the owner to return the deposit and pay a small amount in damages.

The National Association of Realtors says, in effect, "when in doubt, disclose." (Check out the association's "Field Guide to Dealing with Stigmatized Property" at www.realtor.org for much more information and links.) In your case, it sounds as if you disclosed all the material facts.

A excerpt from an Article in the Registar Guard of Eugene, Oregan.

The house-for-sale ad in Saturday's paper starts out like many others - bedrooms, bathrooms, formal dining room - but then it lists a unique feature: resident ghost.

"We haven't seen anything, we mainly hear noises," said owner Charlotte Brady, who lived in the two-story, 80-year-old house on Fillmore Street for about 30 years until moving to a modern home in southeast Eugene a couple of months ago. "We often hear a ball bouncing - it sounds like a hard rubber ball - and it starts at the top of the stairs and seems to hit every step on the way down."

Other typically ghostly things happened occasionally, such as lights turning on or off and finding doors or windows opened or closed, but those things might be explained away by the comings and goings of a half-dozen people living in a household, she said.

Real estate broker Ruby Brockett said she's never heard of a house ghost in all her many years of selling homes in Lane County, "but in the East it's very common."

"Usually it's a person who wasn't ready to go or who has an attachment to the place they lived," Brockett said. "There's a whole 'nother dimension out there we haven't run into yet."

The idea of having a house ghost never really bothered Brady, until the knocking episode.

"I was home alone, sitting on the floor of my daughters' room one day when they were much younger, and all of a sudden something started knocking really loudly on the wall right next to me," Brady said. "It made me madder than anything - I didn't have issues with it being here until I thought it might be trying to scare the kids."

The posted version of this story was edited Aug. 26, 2004, to include a correction.
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In general, the value of a house that has been the site of a suicide doesn't take as much of a hit as the value of a house that has been the site of a homicide, said appraiser Randy Bell, who specializes in stigmatized properties. But if the stigmatized house is in a rural or suburban area, it will probably experience more of an impact than an urban home.

Do you dare disclose if there is murder or mayhem at your listing? What are the professional and logistical challenges if there is a well publicized ghost on your next property? Don't despair, help is here! This page offers some creative marketing tools and advice for selling properties with an unsavory past.

http://www.realtor.org/libweb.nsf/pages/fg703

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