Superstitious buyers ensure that 13 houses are cheaper

What's in a number? About five thousand, according to a property website that claimed home hunters who show little consideration for superstition and buy the "number 13". could save money.

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To coincide with Friday the 13th, Daft.ie says he performed a regression badysis on nearly a million properties listed on the site since January 2006, which showed that the value houses at number 13 is typically € 4,700 cheaper than the average property.

The influence of triskaidekaphobia – the fear of the number 13 – goes beyond the value of house number 13, and also extends to the day houses are bought and sold.

Daft also found that there was about 13.7% fewer transactions on the 15 calendar dates »Friday the 13th which has occurred since the beginning of the price registry. real estate in January 2010, compared to regular Fridays.

Ronan Lyons, an economist at Trinity College Dublin and author of The Daft.ie Report, said the results prove that superstition can have an impact on the market.

" Nevertheless for certain individuals, houses and transactions, many small factors intervene. to play. Here, one can see clear evidence of superstition at work in the housing market.

"This is so much for prices, with less expensive properties than average, and quantities, with fewer transactions on Friday the 13th than Fridays," he says.

A Daft survey also revealed that 9% of people would try to avoid buying or moving into a property with the number 13.

Martin Clancy, of Daft.ie, said that there could be

"Our research shows that the properties of number 13 are 1.8. It's cheaper than the average Irish property, which could allow savvy house hunters to have no superstitions, "he said.