A Hong Kong website tracking deaths to help you find cheaper rent: If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call? In Hong Kong, that would be tech startup spacious.hk and not ghostbusters (although from the looks of it the latter would do well there), because it could mean cheaper rent. The company has been capitalizing on Chinese superstitions and tragic events to help expatriates and young Chinese residents unfazed by a possible spiritual presence to find cheaper apartments. The company tracks and plots out real estate where tragic deaths have been reported in the local media and police reports and overlays it on a map of Hong Kong – giving potential tenants and owners an insight into cheaper apartments, according to Vice: Motherboard.

Feng shui, the Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment to help generate good luck, remains a potent cultural force developers in Hong Kong factor into their projects, so much so that the Hong Kong government has admitted to spending mns worth of GBP’s in order to rebalance the feng shui of its construction projects. That, mixed with a pathological fear of ghosts, has been driving prices down on properties where deaths have occurred. For instance, a gruesome double homicide in J Residence, one of Hong Kong’s most luxurious residential buildings, back in 2014 saw the apartment’s price drop by half. The belief is so powerful, realtors often spread rumors about deaths in properties pitched by rivals. With the insane rental prices of Hong Kong it is not surprising that spacious.hk’s braver visitors have used the haunted house overlay some 5,000 times a month.