It had to happen - the estate agency survey playing to our growing interest in Halloween.
Well, according to independent agency chain Move with Us, completing a sale on Friday the 13th and any deal involving a property with the house number 13 are amongst the biggest worries for potential homebuyers.
Other concerns included not wanting to live next to a graveyard, black cats being seen during viewings or, more commonly, questions about ghosts in the property.
The survey carried out amongst agents in the Move with Us network found that potential homebuyers were also often spooked out by off-beat decorating, particularly the keeping of a dead person's ashes in the house, displays of stuffed animals, eccentric ornaments like shrunken skulls or creepy china dolls, or confessions from vendors that pet cats or dogs were buried in the garden.
If any of this is a surprise to agents across the country, we at Estate Agent Today will be very surprised - we thought it was all, er, dead obvious.
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