Checking if house is former social housing

grumbler

https://www.landregistry-uk.com/map-search
When you see several properties combined under the same title number, they are either housing association or council's.
E.g.

Murphybear

theartfullodger said:

Talk to neighbours, estate agents.  If leasehold see who is freeholder - if council V V likely.

Is there a problem - or an advantage?? In my experience ex-social or council properties frequently have (well for me..) been built to higher standards than some profiteering developer. 

I always prefer the neighbours in an council or ex-council estate to middle classes banging on about house prices, but others no doubt think otherwise.

Best regards to all

I think you are right.  I was brought up in a council house that was part of a big post war development, the town my parents lived in was one of those heavily bombed during the war.   It was a solid red brick built house, 3 good sized bedrooms, large lounge, separate dining room and a large garden.  No central heating or double glazing but the house was warm and you couldn’t hear the neighbours.  

Ours was on the edge of the town, fields full of cows opposite gently mooing me to sleep when I was young  . Sadly when I was a teenager the fields were sold off to housing developers and the houses were nowhere near as nice as the one I was brought up in.  

Arsenal2019

Hi guys, I’m in the same situation and have never lived in an ex council house before but have seen a house on rightmove which I like, but am worried it’s an ex council house. It fits the criteria from what people have said. I.e big garden and rooms.  

I will paste the link here if anyone could please take the time to please help me and say if it is or not ……….. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142526669

elsien

Why are you worried it’s ex-council? What specific concerns would that cause you to have? 

I wouldn’t rule something out just because it’s an ex council house anyway, for the reasons given earlier in the thread. I’d be checking out the area myself directly as well as looking at the house in question. 

Arsenal2019

elsien said:

Why are you worried it’s ex-council? What specific concerns would that cause you to have? 

I wouldn’t rule something out just because it’s an ex council house anyway, for the reasons given earlier in the thread. I’d be checking out the area myself directly as well as looking at the house in question. 

I guess I’ve just been brought up around people saying to stay away from council estates and I’ve never questioned it. Now obviously, we all know they have a bad name and I guess you can find some really rough council estates, but then again there’s equally other rough areas that aren’t on council estates.  

I had a drive around the area and it doesn’t look too bad. There’s what I would class as ‘rough estate’ around two minutes away but I can’t see it from this particular house- other than that the area seems fairly quiet and is relatively in the hills

sheramber

I live in an ex council house.

Out of 26 houses in the cul de sac one is still council property, the rest are all privately owned.. The gardens are well kept. I never hear my neighbours.
When any house goes on the market it is snapped up.

I used to live on a modern private estate. The first  house as you entered the street had an unkept front garden  with a old, wrecked car dumped in it, along with various other bits of rubbish.

YoungBlueEyes

When we were house hunting I was particularly looking for ex council or ex MOD, for the reasons artful and Murphybear have stated on this page. 

I'd say the one in your link has a look of ex council to me. 

marcia_

 I really don't understand why people are bothered by buying in or near council housing?

millymolly22

I work in conveyancing and would have thought you would have been told if the property was ex local authority at the time of your purchase.  You should have or would have been shown a Transfer deed between the Council and whoever bought it from the Council with covenants in etc

ThisIsWeird

andy444 said:

My property is an end-of-terrace house built in the 70's and my two immediate neighbours privately own their two places but I think one house two doors down is owned by the council based on an online search I did for my village.

Although having a mix of private and social housing on a single estate is now pretty much the norm, would it have been back in the 70s?
I'd have thought - but do not know - that a 70s-built terrace would be simply one or the other? In which case, chances are that's all ex-council. Unless the council did a compulsory-purchase of one, I guess?! Unusual and unlikely.
I suspect ex-C, which shouldn't be an issue.