Does a No. 13 House Number Affect Value??

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If a 3-bedroom terraced house with gardens, is located in a popular and convenient location, would the fact that it has a number 13 house number affect the value?

e.g. assume all other terraced houses in the street are worth €200,000 and are in identical condition. Would number 13 also be worth €200,000?
 
AFAIK, yes. There are enough people who don't care, and enough people who like the idea of living at #13 to keep it's value up. They could always give the house a name after moving in anyway!!
 
Becca said:
e.g. assume all other terraced houses in the street are worth €200,000 and are in identical condition. Would number 13 also be worth €200,000?
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What?? Is this for real? I live in a #13.

A number on a house doesn't influence the price of the house - a house value is assessed using the structure of the house.

Becca, you sound like one who'd believe in psychics as well... yes?

-soc
 
Heh heh!! This will be the next ruse used by estate agents.

"This charming semi-d has an elusive air of exclusivity being no.1 in the entire six thousand house scheme..." :)
 
soc said:
Becca, you sound like one who'd believe in psychics as well... yes?

-soc
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Becca asked a question, presumably based on other people's irrational fear of the number (and not necessarily hers). Nowhere did she mention that she believed this herself so I don't see why you're asking her if she believes in psychics?
 
a house value is assessed using the structure of the house.

I would have thought a house is only worth what people will pay for it. The most influencing factor is location (value of land), followed maybe by structure.

People are superstitious. If number 12 & 13 went on the market, everything being equal, number 12 would probably sell more quickly.

I remember reading about this on the sky news website a few weeks ago.
 
My first house was a number 13, as was my second house, it didn't affect the sale value in either case, and saved me a few coppers getting a new number sign. They houses were picked by location and for their privacy/orientation.
 
When my brother lived in Hong Kong he paid a considerably lower rent for his apartment because it had an unlucky number to the Chinese. I can't remember the number but it wasn't 13.

I expect my wife would not allow me to buy a house with a number 13, so I am sure that the potential market for 13's is slightly lower. However I do not expect it would be enough to have an appreciable effect on the price.
 
When dealing with building estates in the past, I used to number the houses 12, 14, 15 etc so there was never a number 13. This was because my client, a well established firm of developers considered that a number 13 would be harder to sell.
 
Gabriel said:
Becca asked a question, presumably based on other people's irrational fear of the number (and not necessarily hers). Nowhere did she mention that she believed this herself so I don't see why you're asking her if she believes in psychics?
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Yeah, Gabriel's right. Was just wondering if I bought a house, which happens to be a no.13, is it possible it might be more difficult to sell it in the future than other house numbers...

I'm not superstitious at all, so it's not something that concerns me. Just concerned in case it concerns others...!
 
You might have worse luck trying to sell if it was number 666 ... I think 13 is safe enough. I lived in 2 houses that were no. 13 with no ill effects ... both of which sold without a bother.
 
It does seem that there are enough superstitious people around to occasionally affect the price payable for no. 13.

Check this Guardian article

and the Telegraphtells us that as many as 25% of buyers avoid house no 13.

Brendan
 
Brendan said:
It does seem that there are enough superstitious people around to occasionally affect the price payable for no. 13.

Check this Guardian article

and the Telegraphtells us that as many as 25% of buyers avoid house no 13.

Brendan
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Thanks for the links Brendan.

The Guardian article states;
[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Although you can request a change in house number to the less scary '12a'.[/font]
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Which is interesting. If I thought it would be a problem selling later on, I could always have it changed to 12a before selling!
 
Fear of people having a fear of number 13

Is that the second derivative of fear?
 
Becca said:
I'm not superstitious at all, so it's not something that concerns me. Just concerned in case it concerns others...!
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Sorry 'bout that Becca... :eek: it just annoys me how some people are so superstitious that they stoop to unbelivable levels...

I mean - there was one time, where I was getting onto a plane. I was allocated seat 13A... which didn't bother me. Anyways.. I board the flight - and start looking at the row numbers as I walk down the aisle.

...16...15...14...12... ?

Huh? Where's 13? :confused:
The plane actually had NO row 13, even though I had been allocated a seat in that row. Apparently the seating was for another plane, hence my ticket having a row 13 - but there not actually being a row 13 in the plane we were boarding. The thing is... that although there was no 'official' row 13... the people sitting in either row 12 or row 14, WERE actually sitting in row 13 - it just wasn't CALLED that.

I don't know... people are stupid.

-soc
 
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