nice house but council housing nearby . .

EmRayMarRhys

Oh of COURSE! I was forgetting all those privately renting tenants that are completely angelic.

It's them social housing people that are trouble, ohhhh yes.

Try reading this forum a while. Yes you may get the odd troublemaker, but that could just as easily be from a homeowner, a private renter or social housing tenant. Your method of weeding out trouble is far less effective than the suggestion upthread of visiting at various times to see if there are any issues.

Sweeping generalisations like this make me :mad: I may be a social tenant now but in my time I have been both a homeowner and a private rental tenant. Just because someone is on a low income doesn't make them trouble.

Desperado99

Does the property actually back onto the council estate? that would be my only concern (as our house does and we have problems from time to time). Having said that, it is probably easier to deal with problem neighbours if they rent as you can talk to the landlord/housing association.

ask around, visit at different times etc before you buy. Generally speaking, I would be more interested in what your street is like, not the next one along.

good luck

Careful_with_that_Axe

If you have troublesome people in Council houses, you can report them to the Council who will take action. What recourse do you have if the troublesome people own their homes? None.

Matt1977

I grew up on a council estate and I turned out OK.

neverdespairgirl

westy_1981 wrote: »

i know this thread may seem a bit snobbish, but we're looking at spending up to 200k and the last thing we want is somewhere that has less than desireables around or a place my wife is afraid of taking our baby out in . . . .

Depends where you are, but in London there is social housing everywhere, I reckon most houses / flats have some within a couple of streets.

We're about to pay £690k for a flat in central London with council housing not far away.

Fly_Baby

I live in a house situated on an ex-council street and most are now owner occupied. Houses like mine fly off the shelves within days on the market for approx. 300K (one next door to me sold for 340K but it was extended). It is in SE of course.

It is a pleasant area and is within catchment of the secondary school which is one of 10 best schools in the county.

If anything, in our area ex-council means decent sized-rooms and gardens and the floor area by at least 25% greater than "private houses" which cost more at that.

mutter

I live right on a council estate.
Both of my next door neighbours are private owner occupiers.
When such houses are sold on, most of them achieve a price well in excess of £200k.

I'd be interested to know if you've really spent your life so far living in a place where council houses don't exist.

Oh, and we don't eat babies either.

Gwhiz

Matt1977 wrote: »

I grew up on a council estate and I turned out OK.

That's what you think! We b1tch about you behind your back every day

birkee

I see sides are being taken on another post again.
Re. The OP. It is something indefinable. Some good area's, some bad area's.

There is a situation not too far from us in B'ham, where the large private houses near to local authority housing, get much higher burglary rates than could be rationalised by any other criteria. Perhaps it's the more extreme property contrasts as the private area is made up of VERY expensive houses.
Nothing to say this is certain to apply in another area though.

riverboat2001

Hi, i would definately echo the comment about police.co.uk, and driving round the area at all hours of the day and night, look around the local park later on to see if there are any undesirables.
We went to view a house on a local "rough" estate that was gradually being sold off to tenants, i stopped a few and asked them what it was "really" like to live there, everbody was positive.
On viewing the house, the next door neighbour turned up, let his dog out to sh*t on the communal grass, then went indoors and left the dog out.
I turned to hubby and said,...not a chance!
Plce we've now bought needs quite a bit of work, but it's in a nice area and was only 10k more