Would you buy house number 13?

mildred1978

I would and I did

Bought low, sold high, made a lot of cash (over 8 years) and then bought another number 13! Seems to be lucky for me!

breadlinebetty

Itismehonest wrote: »

Put a plaque up with the name "Twelve A". You can call your house by a name & not use a number

I'm sorry but you're wrong.

You can add a name to your property, but you have to (by law) keep the number in the address. The Post Office insist upon it, as does the Land Registry and council......you have to keep a number displayed for the benefits of the police, fire brigade etc.

So if you add a name to a house it would be something like "13, Rose Cottage......."

Check on the LR website and it will explain it better than I can.:D

breadlinebetty

Link to Post Office site explaining why you cannot change a number to a name

http://www.royalmail.com/delivery/mail-advice/postcodes-addresses-explained#3400062

Strapped

Yes, and I'd then add a name plaque "Unlucky House" or some such.

Itismehonest

breadlinebetty wrote: »

I'm sorry but you're wrong.

You can add a name to your property, but you have to (by law) keep the number in the address. The Post Office insist upon it, as does the Land Registry and council......you have to keep a number displayed for the benefits of the police, fire brigade etc.

So if you add a name to a house it would be something like "13, Rose Cottage......."

Check on the LR website and it will explain it better than I can.:D

You could well be right. There are no house numbers around here. My place has only ever had a name & that has changed several times across the centuries. They weren't so fussy backalong

Edit: Sorry was writing this when you added second post so didn't see it until later. Thanks for the link.

Doozergirl

That price thing must be rubbish, or co-incidence . For every person that doesn't want a number 13, there must be three people who don't care and at least one of those wouldn't even give the number a second thought, let alone whether it would affect them buying. If everyone felt that way, it would be unsellable, not just reduced fractionally.

I couldn't care less. I think 13 is under-rated

faerie~spangles

ssh4478 wrote: »

We are FTB, really liked a house. Only thing that is making us a bit reluctant to go ahead is that house number is 13. Want to know what others think about number 13?

You like the house?

You can get a mortgage?


!!!!!! is the problem?

breadlinebetty

Itismehonest wrote: »

You could well be right. There are no house numbers around here. My place has only ever had a name & that has changed several times across the centuries. They weren't so fussy backalong

Edit: Sorry was writing this when you added second post so didn't see it until later. Thanks for the link.

Yes, houses built many years ago that were registered with just a name do not have to number them - think of Highgrove for example!:D But I think the law changed on numbering and naming houses a couple of hundred years ago, maybe? You'll find it all on google....

breadlinebetty

Doozergirl wrote: »

That price thing must be rubbish, or co-incidence . For every person that doesn't want a number 13, there must be three people who don't care and at least one of those wouldn't even give the number a second thought, let alone whether it would affect them buying. If everyone felt that way, it would be unsellable, not just reduced fractionally.

I couldn't care less. I think 13 is under-rated

A survey was done on the number 13 and something like 12% of people would be put off by the number 13, so it's a small proportion.....

Contessa

In my street the house which "should" be number 13 is 15.

I'd have no qualms about buying a "number 13" house.

"So if you add a name to a house it would be something like "13, Rose Cottage......."

But, although 13 would be OK for me, I'd feel very uncomfortable to live in "Rose Cottage".