Estate agents do not want to market paralympic star Oscar Pistorius's luxury house in Silver Woods in Pretoria, the Sunday Times reported.
Alberto Ochetta of Casa Nostra Properties was quoted saying: "I wouldn't want to market that house. It just has bad karma attached to it now and it will be an incredibly difficult sell."
Pistorius allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day. He said he thought she was an intruder.
The newspaper reported the house was due to be listed with Engel & Volkers Silverlakes for R6 million.
Meanwhile, Pistorius is expected to learn what charges he faces when he appears in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Monday.
It would have been Reeva Steenkamp's 30th birthday on Monday.
The State is expected to serve the double amputee with an indictment, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Friday.
"We also expect to have the trial starting early 2014, but we cannot at this stage confirm the exact date because this has to be agreed upon in court by all parties concerned," spokesperson Medupe Simasiku said.
"It will therefore be inappropriate for the NPA to comment about the charges beforehand."
AFP reported that the trial is likely to take place from the first week of March until the end of March.
On 4 June, prosecutor Andrea Johnson said in court that no details of the investigation would be revealed.
She said the State needed more time to investigate the crime. This was by agreement with Pistorius's defence.
Johnson said the attention generated by Steenkamp's murder was not something the prosecution or the State could control, and felt his rights should not be overridden, that he had the right to be treated like any other person.
On Tuesday, police confirmed that the investigation into Steenkamp's death had been completed and that the matter would be postponed.
National spokesperson Lieutenant General Solomon Makgale said the investigation team was convinced that Pistorius had a charge to answer to.
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