Haunted addresses on record in New Mexico
What New Mexico requires
New Mexico law explicitly protects sellers, landlords, and agents from liability for staying silent about a natural death, suicide, homicide, or felony crime at a property, and the statute doesn't mention hauntings at all. The law is silent on what happens if a buyer asks directly, but general fraud principles mean an outright lie in response to a direct question is still risky for the seller.
New Mexico's stigmatized-property statute, NMSA 47-13-2 ("Disclosure of information not required in real estate transactions"), says a seller, lessor, landlord, or their agent is not liable for failing to disclose that a property is or has been the site of a natural death, or the site of a homicide, suicide, assault, sexual assault, or any other felony crime. The same section also shields sellers from having to disclose that a former occupant had HIV/AIDS or another disease not known to spread through occupancy of the property.
New Mexico has no death-disclosure duty comparable to California's three-year window. There's no statutory clock at all — under 47-13-2, deaths and felony crimes simply never have to be volunteered, no matter how recent.
The statute is written as a blanket 'no duty to disclose,' but it doesn't say what happens if a buyer asks a direct question and the seller answers dishonestly. Secondary legal sources covering New Mexico real estate transactions note that this silence protection does not extend to intentional misrepresentation or fraud — a seller who affirmatively lies, rather than simply staying quiet, can still be exposed to a fraud claim under general New Mexico law. New Mexico also licenses real estate brokers to disclose 'adverse material facts' they actually know about a property, which is a separate professional-conduct duty layered on top of the statute.
The statute doesn't mention paranormal activity, hauntings, or psychological stigma at all — it's limited to death, felony crime, and disease history. No reported New Mexico court case addressing a haunted-house claim (in the vein of New York's Stambovsky v. Ackley) turned up in this research, so it's an open question how a New Mexico court would treat a haunting claim specifically.
General information, not legal advice. Laws change and turn on details — for a real decision, talk to a licensed professional in New Mexico.
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