Canada

I'm of the opinion that information should be irrelevant in the housing price and the sellers aren't obligated.

This is so dumb. The home invader died at the hospital. Not in the house. So the seller was technically correct not to check the box.

Even if a home invader was killed in self defense and died in the house that shouldn't be a big deal for the value of the house.

Its not like a serial killer lived there and dissolved hundreds of bodies in acid that he then dumped under the foundation.

He didn't die in the house. He died in the hospital.

His injuries were sustained in the house but he was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

"The coroner says he tried to leave but collapsed outside the home near the front door. He was declared dead in hospital."

In some US states, its obligatory to report any deaths in a seller's house. But kind of silly really. People die all the time in houses. Heart attacks, seizures, dementia, we all gotta go sometime, and not everyone dies in a hospital or hospice care. Does it really make a difference to four walls and a floor if someone died violently or in their sleep? And this guy didnt even die IN the house. He was stabbed in the house but he died outside on the porch. Are ya worried about a haunted porch?

Are they claiming that the event has given the property a bad reputation that reduces its value by that amount? I suppose those are plausible grounds for a lawsuit. I can't think of any other way a death on the property several years ago could cause damage to the new owners. Surely they're not claiming that the house is haunted (and if that's the issue, I can imagine the judge being extremely unamused).

That’s probably sufficient for the haunting ti be off the property.

So long as the house wasn’t built on an ancient aboriginal burial site, I might be able to look the other way.