MSE Blog: Would you live at a murder scene to bag a house price discount?

sharnad

Does depends how much cheaper it's going for and what the prospect is like.

WellKnownSid

The house we live in now has history going back at least 600 years, as have other houses we've lived in. Those were rocky times.

We have counted at least 10 people who died in our current place sat in the local cemetery, probably at least that unrecorded. They can't have all been natural causes, and of those that were, few of them would have been pleasant and pain-free by today's standards.

Former_MSE_Darryl

"People would rather buy a house which has been the scene of a murder than one that is at risk of subsiding, flooding or in a high crime area, according to a survey by MoneySavingExpert.com..."

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onlyroz

I would be put off if the murderer was so notorious that the house was regularly frequented by gawkers or nutters. Otherwise, I'd think it was a good opportunity to bag a bargain.

Brisbaneroad

Not surprising houses with subsidence aren't wanted. Insurance companies won't touch them, whereas they don't care who used to live in your house.

DRP

MSE_Darryl wrote: »

"People would rather buy a house which has been the scene of a murder than one that is at risk of subsiding, flooding or in a high crime area, according to a survey by MoneySavingExpert.com..."

no shi*, Sherlock :rotfl:

lemontart

Not sure to be honest, and how would you know in some cases.

Dukesy

I'd quite happily live in a house in which murders had taken place. Honestly, it wouldn't bother me. As it is, I've never lived in a house built more recently than 1800ish, and a couple have been much older than that, so who knows what may have happened in them in the past!

Murder aside, I know the previous owner of our house died here, and based on the fact that its a very rural area and he had no family nearby, plus some slightly cautious comments made by the landlady at the local pub, we have come to the conclusion that it may have been a little while before he was found... Does that bother me? No.

No-one really wants to know that their house has a nasty past, but at the end of the day, a grisly history doesn't really matter to me.

michaels

I viewed a house where the mother of 2 young children had commited suicide in the house, the kids had come home and found her and the husband had followed suit (in his case by driving of a cliff) 18 months later, the kids had gone in to care and the house though fully overgrown still had a lot of personal effects in it...before viewing I thought it wouldn't matter to me but in the end despite the attractice price we decided not to make an offer....

marathonic

The '43% wouldn't buy if it was used as a drug den' - what exactly is a drug den?

A house I viewed, and is still on the market, was rented out a little over a year ago and had been used to grow hundreds of marijuana plants - photos were in the newspaper and it looked nigh on impossible to move in the house with the amount of plants everywhere.

They got convicted and the house has been on the market since. I don't see how this would turn someone off buying though.