Checking if someone died in your house

DigForVictory

Frankly, if someone asked me if someone had died in my house, I'd likely ask if they wanted to have a positive answer whilst pensively chrcking the edge of a cooking knife.
Built in 1780, a retrofitted industrial unit? In the last 150 years no records but as a historian with a sideways sense of humour why would I let an opportunity like that slide?!

booksurr

DigForVictory wrote: »

Built in 1780, a retrofitted industrial unit? In the last 150 years no records but as a historian with a sideways sense of humour why would I let an opportunity like that slide?!

one trusts you have done some digging into its archaeology?

zagubov

AdrianC wrote: »

And here's the back story...
http://uk.businessinsider.com/denis-nilsen-cranley-gardens-muswell-hill-flat-on-sale-for-300000-2015-6

My mate used to work for him. In fact that's who offered him his job. Got the shock of his life when he saw his statue at Madam Tussaud's.:eek:

TeaLeaf

There are about 600 murders a year in the UK: the victims and the culprits have to have lived somewhere! If you're worried, don't just Google it, search for the street address on the local newspaper's website, which is probably sensible anyway if you don't know the area well. When I did this I was much more concerned by the reports about a resident (now thankfully moved away) that had recently received her 53rd theft conviction. That's the sort of thing that will affect your insurance premiums, not whether someone 20 years ago died there. As others have said, the only reason to worry if someone was murdered in the house is because you may get sightseers, but you probably won't unless it was someone infamous or is unsolved.

Old_Git

My last tenant died at the end off a rope .I did tell the new tenant but it wasnt really a selling point

G_M

Old_Git wrote: »

My last tenant died at the end off a rope .I did tell the new tenant but it wasnt really a selling point

I suppose that's one way to deal with rent arrears, and regain possession.

glasgowdan

Just read the article and got distracted by "look at all this space" at 46m2! I'm so glad i don't live in that there orrible London!

Old_Git

randomi15 wrote: »

Hi all

I have placed an offer and after reading a guide to buying house it was mentioned i should check to ensure no one has been murdered or died in the house

How can one find out? Typing full asdress in googleand search?

I have a hospital appointment but I am not sure I should keep it .
A lot of people have died in that hospital .What do you think I should do.

TBagpuss

Cakeguts wrote: »

I tried the googling thing and got reams of information about when it was last for sale and company directors but nothing about my father dropping dead in the bathroom. So I don't think the advice about people dying works.

The googling is about whether there has been anything newsworthy, likely to affect how easy it will be to sell on, or to atraact publicitiy,.

Your dad having died in the house was presumably not newsworthy, (to the wider public) so would not have that sort of effect.

If someone wants to avoid living in a property where anyone has ever died (as opposed to wishing to avoid anywhere where there has been a murder) then buying a new build is probably the way forward

kaflinkle

It's not such a strange question as me and my wife decided to pull out of a place once we found out the previous occupant had died. Mind you, it was more the closeness of the death and that the fact the sellers were trying desperately to hide it. I got suspicious.

Having to spend over £30K so it didn't look like a house from the 50s made the decision easier for me though.