Can property have bad karma? 
 
 In 2007, when British Erasmus student Meredith Kercher was brutally murdered in the back bedroom of the little house she shared with Seattle native Amanda Knox and two Italian women, pictures of the stucco structure were broadcast across the world. Now the house is on the market for $500,000. But the real estate agent tells The Daily Beast that the owners won’t sell it to just anyone. 
 
 The house, which was divided into two apartments, is a unique structure in Perugia. Unlike other student digs, the house on Via della Pergola is a free-standing dwelling that was converted from an old farm building tucked on a little piece of land along a busy road that winds around the hilltop town. At the time Kercher was killed, she shared the upper apartment, which had a terrace overlooking a lush valley, with Knox and two Italian legal students. The lower apartment was rented by four Italian students, including one young man who was romantically linked to Kercher. Prior to Kercher’s death, the house was rented to a number of groups of students and young professionals in Perugia without incident. 
 
 The villa owner, Adalia Tattanelli Marrone, was a civil plaintiff in the Kercher murder case, claiming lost rent of about $51,000 for the time the house was sequestered as part of the crime scene. Now Rudy Guede, who stands as the only person definitively convicted of Kercher’s murder, is solely responsible for the restitution. Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were first convicted and then acquitted of Kercher’s murder. Their acquittal was overthrown by Italy’s high court in 2013 and a new appeal trial is under way in Florence, with a verdict expected January 15 or 20. The new appellate decision will have to clear Italy’s high court before the two are definitively convicted or acquitted. If they are definitively convicted, they also will share in the responsibility of restitution, whether the house is sold or not. 
 
 The property, which has 10 rooms and is still divided into two separate apartments, earned just over $2,800 a month from the students who lived there. In 2009, the owner took back possession of the house and completely refurbished the structure, adding metal grates to the windows and moving walls, essentially removing the room where Kercher was murdered by rearranging that part of the house. The house then was rented to a series of tenants. For a time a group of Bangladeshi street vendors rented the property. The most recent tenants were families from Morocco who left the property after suffering mild carbon monoxide poisoning in November. 
 
 Vincenzo Russo, the estate agent in charge of the sale, told The Daily Beast that he does not expect the property to sell quickly. He said the online listing has received thousands of hits since it was listed just before Christmas but that the house has been shown to just a couple of prospective buyers. The agents will not show the property to anyone, he said, unless they can prove they have the financial means to purchase the property, which he hopes will deter curiosity seekers. 
 
 “It is obviously a property with a difficult history,” Russo said. “Those types of houses are never easy to sell.” 
 
 The owner is not ruling out selling the property for commercial use, Russo said, either as a bed and breakfast or even to a business to use as office space. The ad listing the property boasts enough parking space for seven cars. There are also reports that the University for Foreigners is eyeing the property to house administrative services. 
 
 If the property is not sold, it will eventually be destroyed with an eye to selling the land for development. ||||| Well, if you've always dreamed of owning a home in a quaint town in Italy -- today just might be your lucky day. Or not. The home where Amanda Knox lived with Meredith Kercher (yes, the one where Kercher was murdered) is up for sale -- and it can be yours if you have an extra $500,000 lying around. 
 
 Relax. I'm kidding. It's impossible to imagine for one second that anyone would be interested in purchasing a home where a young girl was brutally killed. Who would want to live in a place like that? 
 
 Believe it or not, there have been quite a few visitors to the web page where the home is listed. 
 
 But one of the realtors says, "I hope to exclude macabre curiosity seekers because the property has a certain value." 
 
 A "certain value"? Um ... I'm sure it's a very charming home and all -- if you can manage to forget about the fact that someone was stabbed to death inside! How in the heck would anyone be able to get a decent night's sleep in that place? 
 
 About 15 years or so ago, there was a couple who lived in a house near where I grew up -- and one night the housekeeper's son broke in and bludgeoned them both to death after robbing the home. The mom of a dude I went to high school with wound up buying the house and moving in, and it always made my head spin. Why on earth did she want to call that place home?!? 
 
 As sick as it is, something tells me the real estate agency won't have too tough of a time selling this cottage though -- given how high profile the Amanda Knox/Raffaele Sollecito murder case was (and still is). 
 
 I hate to say it -- but I feel like there is some weirdo out there who will actually be totally mesmerized by the idea of living in a place where such an infamous crime went down ... like fulfilling some sort of twisted fantasy or something. 
 
 OMG. There really are some strange peeps in this world. 
 
 Would you ever consider buying a home where someone had died so tragically? 
 
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– It has 10 rooms, a strong rental history, and a terrace that overlooks a picturesque valley in Perugia, Italy. But those aren't the reasons the real estate listing for this house is drawing so much attention, reports the Daily Beast. It happens to be the home where Meredith Kercher was murdered in 2007, a crime for which Amanda Knox was convicted, then acquitted. A retrial is currently underway. The listing currently has the house up for 460,000 euro, or $625,000. “It is obviously a property with a difficult history,” the estate agent for the property tells the DB. “Those types of houses are never easy to sell.” The owner remodeled the place in 2009, making changes that essentially eliminated the room where the murder took place. If it doesn't sell, the owner plans to tear it down and sell the land to a developer. "Who would want to live in a place like that?" wonders a blogger at the Stir.