Your opinion: Buying a house next door to a Pub

nearlyrich

I lived just by a pub for 10 years or so, never heard any noise from the customers but they didn't have to stand outside to smoke in those days.

tek-monkey

Not a chance in hell, and I'm an alcoholic! Well, maybe that helps my decision, I don't know, but my house is somewhere to relax and I don't really want the sounds of a pub beer garden interupting that. I'd expect a minimum 10% discount from similar properties away from such noise distractions.

juliescot

I lived next to a pub on a busy road.
When there was nothing on the TV I used to watch the antics of various drunks trying to leave. I did find it annoying when people used to pee, or throw up, against my front door.

The jazz on a Sunday was nice as I used to enjoy listening to that when in my kitchen.

I would absolutely hate it now with the smoking ban as I would have to go past all the smokers to get in to my house and the place would stink.

So from my point of view - done it wouldn't do it again or advise anyone to do it

NEH

Well to prove a point in our search for a place to rent recently we looked at a nice property near a pub and we were reassured that it was family pub but it put us off....the solicitors invloved went onto to say well it is a better pub since it changed hands it was a bit rough beforehand....

The moral to the tale being that pubs change hands....

I wouldn't want to live anywhere near one, especially where students are known to congregate....

When I went to university even though I had a serious illness that depended on me being able to get a good nights rest they put me in a room opposite the student bar....needless to say it made what i later found out to be a relapse very much worse by the fact that I had 3 nights without sleep. The bar shut at 11 but the students didn't seem to appreciate that...:rolleyes:

Spartacus_Mills

Yafeng wrote: »

We've viewed a property recently and are thinking of making an offer. It's a terraced house at an asking price of 275k. What concerns us most is that this house is next to a local Pub (converted from two adjacent terraced houses), which we consider as quieter than average and shuts around 11pm. The pub uses its big garden as an extended area, so people sit outside especially when the weather is good. The pub's garden is next to the garden of the house we are interested in.

We have been to the pub during its busy hours and feel the noise wouldn't be a big problem to us. But we really don't know whether this is a risky investment as one day we may need to sell the house, and the Pub would be something to put off potential buyers.

We've been struggling with a decision and would like to know if you would consider buying a house next to a pub and if people on average would stay clear of such a property in your opinion. Thanks for advise!

How easy will it be to sell in the future ? You need to ask yourself that. I personally would not touch it with a bargepole. I would not be happy with the garden of the pub next to my garden. Imagine all the bottles and cigarette butts you will be cleaning up. There is the noise and rowdy drunks as well. Also consider how difficult parking may be.

barnaby-bear

Yafeng wrote: »

We've viewed a property recently and are thinking of making an offer. It's a terraced house at an asking price of 275k. What concerns us most is that this house is next to a local Pub (converted from two adjacent terraced houses), which we consider as quieter than average and shuts around 11pm. The pub uses its big garden as an extended area, so people sit outside especially when the weather is good. The pub's garden is next to the garden of the house we are interested in.

It's not just the noise - pub gardens are not gardens but really "the smoking area" - which may spoil things

tanith

My MIL lives opposite a large pub and it changes hands with frightening regularity, and each new management changes the format, opening times, type of customer they want to attract, wether they sell food or not in fact it turns into a different pub time after time. I wouldn't rely on what you have seen remaining as you see it... and even if it did I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole either..

henpecked1

take heed from what is said here. 90% of this forum is saying no. Thats 90% of your buyers in the future saying no. You then have 10% of which 90% of them probably wont like it anyway.

summer evening barbeque with friends will be overcrowded by beer swilling louts laughing.

Miss_Imaginative

I agree with what many others have said, what if the pub changes hands and it completely changes? My partner currently lives in a flat next door to a pub which regularly shows football matches, kareoke and live bands until the early hours of the morning (including weekdays). Needless to say, he's looking to get out of there pretty sharpish! Personally, I really wouldn't buy next door to a pub, no matter how nice it is at the moment, in this climate many things can change...

mouche

Sorry to hijack this thread, but how about 3 doors down from a pub? Would that put off potential buyers as well?