Buying house down a street with a HMO majority in Hull...

colinbest2

Hi guys,
Monday night I'm viewing a house with the girlfriend, the house is big and really nicely done out inside. The girlfriend loves the house and says she thinks the area is fine but I have an issue with the area, the houses all look quite nicely looked after but there is alot of HMOs down the street and that worries me a bit. Houses for sale down there are being touted as "family homes or investment opportunities" so this may increase more.
The street is Park Grove and its just on the edges of the really nice Avenues area in Hull. I've grown up here and always seen Park Grove as quite rough because of the HMOs so maybe I'm being swayed by my judgement.
I guess my question is what are you guys thoughts on living down a road thats HMO dominated and for those that may be familiar with Hull do you have any experiences of Park Grove?
Thanks in advance.

csgohan4

visit the area at different times of the day and week when not in lockdown

Comms69

HMOs for students? Single adults? Bail hostels? It all makes a difference

colinbest2

Comms69 said:

HMOs for students? Single adults? Bail hostels? It all makes a difference

Haha now that is a good point! They're HMOs for students and single adults.

Comms69

So most will be relatively young, or those there temporarily due to breakdown of relationship, job loss etc. In most you'll find it super peaceful 5-6 months of the year and pretty noisy during key weeks at unis (freshers week, christmas balls etc)

numbercruncher8

Yes, driving past by car (and on foot) at various times is the best way.
Not sure about the area, but one road I lived on in the past had sprung up HMOs out of nowhere. Basically 3 (or 4-bed) houses with families then turned into 5 bed houses of younger adults.
Behaviour wasn't an issue, but parking suddenly turned into one. Even though most of the houses had off-road parking, a house that would have one or two cars ended up having 4 or more (and even more if they had visitors). The road wasn't built with so many cars in mind and parking became aggravating. There was a couple of houses that didn't have off-road parking but previously had street parking outside their house, this became unfortunate for them as people took the spots and without sufficient frontage depth they couldn't do much.

John_

colinbest2 said:

Comms69 said:

HMOs for students? Single adults? Bail hostels? It all makes a difference

Haha now that is a good point! They're HMOs for students and single adults.

I would never buy somewhere like that. People in HMOs will always (on average) have far less invested in the house and the street, and will never feel the same responsibility for it as residents do. It may be OK now, but there’s a far greater chance of parties, overgrown gardens, damage, vandalism, crime, antisocial behaviour etc compared to a street of family homes.

[Deleted User]

A HMO road - not for me 
As said above, rubbish in the front garden, noise, parties, parking, talking loudly in the garden, visitors etc all by people who really dont care that much about their road and home and you in the middle with a private residence -nah 

AdrianC

colinbest2 said:

...Houses for sale down there are being touted as "family homes or investment opportunities"...

Well, that means precisely nothing.

Just about every property purchase in the country fits into one of those two categories...

dimbo61

You need to do some research.
How far is the road from the local Uni ?
Have you looked on Rightmove or the university accomodation website to see what the condition of the student HMO,s look like.
All HMO,s now need a licence with a responsible landlord required to maintain them.
Universities now have a code of conduct and behaviour for students !
Didsbury in Manchester used to be a large student HMO area but is now attracting lots of yuppies.
Very 1980,s term but you get my drift !

theartfullodger

Could be worse:. You could end up living with a bunch of smug middle-class home owners whining on about house prices and the scarcity of quail eggs at Waitrose