Of course, the jingle of the guinea has an effect, with Rightmove, “the UK’s number one property website”, recently promoting the haunted reputation of properties to attract buyers. On the whole, however, knowledge that a place is haunted, that someone has died in a property, or that it stands on a site where human remains have been unearthed still acts as a deterr­ent to many purchasers and tenants (it’s one reason why developers resent archæology in Britain, with the subject being left to wither in universities). Folklore is full of stories of houses that are empty or offered for low rents on account of their haunted reputations (see Steve Roud’s The Lore of London, 2008).