Housing
Bargain Hunting in Hong Kong's Haunted Real Estate
An app tracks the locations of grisly deaths to help users land a discount on their next apartment—or avoid the building altogether.
As if the skyrocketing rents and ever-shrinking size of Hong Kong’s apartments aren’t frightening enough, apartment hunters can now use an augmented-reality app to seek out the “haunted” flats of the city.
According to the South Morning China Post, the startup Spacious has taken a cue from the popular Pokemon Go app to let users explore their surroundings through their smartphone cameras. This particular app, however, lets users point their phones at a building in order to see information about available units, including dimensions, price—and any grisly murders or untimely deaths that took place there.