I'm the author of this post and the founder of dataguru.hk, AMA
Nice work! Do you see any differences when slicing the city into its various districts?
In Hong Kong, flats really are cheaper when they contain the number 4
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#12I'm the author of this post and the founder of dataguru.hk, AMA
There is no significant drop for 40 where 34 and 44 both do have these. Is this because 40 is pronounced differently and doesn't have the connotation?
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#13I'm the author of this post and the founder of dataguru.hk, AMA
There is no significant drop for 40 where 34 and 44 both do have these. Is this because 40 is pronounced differently and doesn't have the connotation?
Compare 39 to 40, and 49 to 50... I think it's just harder for people to avoid ALL floors starting with 4, but there is still a small effect.
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#15In the states it's quite common to number the floors of a building by avoiding the number 13. I think this is pure madness. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15...
All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at the table.
Edit: Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number)#/media/File:Many_b...
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#16Another funny old news about superstition is that a public research institute located in Hong Kong Science Park used HK$180,000 (~USD $23,000) on fung shui consultation[1].
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#17I'm the author of this post and the founder of dataguru.hk, AMA
Its unclear whether the amount of transactions is compensated for the floors that do not exist (thus less supply).
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#18So the number 4 in Cantonese sounds like the word for death. Though a different tone is used. Thing is the number 9 sounds just like the word for dog, why doesn't that cause a problem?
4 is being actively avoided. And combines with other numbers, like 14(to die), 174(going to die) make it a very ominous number indeed.
174 sounds more like "dying together". How about 54 "not dying"?
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#19Its a bit surprising to see this. I thought they go for using '3B' instead of an outright '4'
I only include integer floors in this analysis, but there very few flats with regex \d\w. Or you're surprised there are 4s at all?
As seen in Sydney: https://antontsau.livejournal.com/291486.html
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#20I'm the author of this post and the founder of dataguru.hk, AMA
Its unclear whether the amount of transactions is compensated for the floors that do not exist (thus less supply).
But before that I include a graph of flats available, and indeed there are fewer flats with floor numbers ending with 4! So an interesting analysis would be to see if the turnover (transactions divided by availability) is different... But I think price paid is more interesting :)