Would you buy a "Notorious" house/building ?

Would you buy a "Notorious" house/building ?

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J4CKO

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41,287 posts

199 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I read about Jimmy Saviles Leeds "Penthouse" being knocked down, sounds like another apartment will be built in its place so not sure what that achieves.

To be honest, I am not sure what I would think about buying it, an old weirdo who abused kids owned it but there must be lots of houses that have had abuse, suicide, murder, rape or any other crimes happen and the owners would be unaware ?

We were told a house on our road had a suicide in the garage buy a local copper, he wouldnt say which one but to be honest, someone ending their life from a beam in the garage 20 years ago doesn't bother me one iota, people die in houses every day, on the road, in hospital, it is just part of life.

Surely after its cleaned and redecorated it is just a building again as long as it doesn't become a Mecca for weirdos ?


Sheets Tabuer

18,898 posts

214 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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There is a house a few miles from me where a woman was brutally murdered in her bed, apparently the room looked like an abattoir.

Not sure I could lay there watching TV after that.

thetapeworm

11,192 posts

238 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I remember when Denis Nielsen's flat went up for sale the listing said "Buyers are asked to research the history of this property"

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

I think I'd want to redo the plumbing.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Sure why not as long as it was cheaper....

X5TUU

11,908 posts

186 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Personally, No

There is a council house in Sunderland where a whole extended family perished (other than a couple of kids who were at school at the time) in a raging house fire ... I had been friends with one of the kids who saw his house go up in flames from the playground

The house should have been demolished but it was refurbished and put back out for council tenants but no one wanted to live there it was demolished a few years later

Trophy Husband

3,924 posts

106 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I remember a smoke damaged 911 for sale years ago. The owner had topped himself with the exhaust. It went for small money compared to value. We had a cottage where a guy had allegedly killed his wife in the mid 19th century. We didn't find out until we had moved in. Our current place is 1770's and has surely had many deaths in it by now. It sure is haunted anyway! My boys (6 and 4) get spooked and woken up quite frequently by strange noises.

Spice_Weasel

2,286 posts

252 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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There's a house in my village known as 'The Murder House'. Rumour has it that the murder was a result of a domestic dispute in the 60s. Not many people know much about it these days though.

The family living there now don't seem to have any issues with it.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I bought a house off the estate of a chap who had hung himself.

It wasn't shifting and I picked up a bargain. The webbed fingered Neighbours, occasionally asked if I ever saw a ghost or was bothered, no on both accounts. The only I noticed was when I redecorated the Hall, Staircase and landing and was sanding the staircase and came across a horizontal wear line across two spindles, then twigged how it been done.

Not sure if I would fancy a notorious house.


milfordkong

1,222 posts

231 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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My sister lives in a converted barn on a farm where a double murder took place in the early 2000's - The house it happened in is gone now but it's only a few metres from her current house - She's normally easily spooked but doesn't seem too concerned by the history of the place.

I think it would bother me a great deal if it was a place where very bad things took place. Definitely wouldn't be buying Dennis Nilsen's flat, mentioned earlier in the thread.

LordHaveMurci

12,034 posts

168 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I used to live in a converted Victorian mental hospital, I'm sure lot's of things happened there before I bought it!

J4CKO

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41,287 posts

199 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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This is the nearest we have locally I can think of,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

Wouldnt bother me, just a tragic situation.

And Alan Turing lived, and died locally.

I think there is probably an equation to determine the amount of resistance,

How long ago, versus how grisly, as things that were 100 years ago or more are almost considered as adding a bit of character but a pile of rotting young men in the eighties under your floor, less so.

MitchT

15,789 posts

208 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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A lady was murdered in a house a few miles away from me in an area I'm familiar with. After the house was subsequently sold I checked the 'sold prices' section on Right Move. It had gone for about 30% less than comparable properties on the same street.

brrapp

3,701 posts

161 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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I found my old neighbour's body in his bedroom when I broke in after we hadn't seen him for a few days. It didn't put me off buying the house when the family put it up for sale a few months later......though a few years on, every now and again I imagine I catch a glimpse or smell a whiff of his rotting body.Doesn't stop me enjoying the house though.

Dogwatch

6,222 posts

221 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Not suicide but I understood the elderly couple who were the previous occupants of my first house had died from CO poisoning from the boiler. Didn't bother me and we were there 10 years. Got rid of that boiler though!

Fred West's house was demolished wasn't it? I suppose it's a balance between badly needed housing stock and notoriety putting people off.

Freds

947 posts

136 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Our farmhouse was the scene of a hanging suicide in the 1950's, as time has passed along with most of the chaps family the local notoriety of the place has diluted. The oak beam he hung from is still as was in our lounge. We've had no peculiar visitations nor happenings so he appears to be at peace now. I bought the place already knowing it's history.

Edited by Freds on Tuesday 18th October 16:54

J4CKO

Original Poster:

41,287 posts

199 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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My brothers house belonged to an old lady and it was utterly minging when he got it, didnt look too bad but everything was ingrained with her 60 a day habit, not sure if she died there but they always blame "Freda" for any noises or things going missing.

Freds

947 posts

136 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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The home of Brady and Hindley was demolished after their trial. It was the right hand house of the top centre terrace in the photo, the row is clearly missing a house . I wouldn't want to live next door nor within a mile of the place personally.




rxtx

6,016 posts

209 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Trophy Husband said:
It sure is haunted anyway!
No it isn't.

Voldemort

6,089 posts

277 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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J4CKO said:
I read about Jimmy Saviles Leeds "Penthouse" being knocked down...
A friend of my mothers used to own this flat. JS had the flat underneath and every time he saw her he would ask if she would sell it to him. On the day she weakened and said she had been thinking of a cottage in Whitby he offered her double the market price if she would move out in 7 days. She moved out in 2 as I remember.

Barring that I have no desire to live in a block of flats, no matter how posh they are, I would have jumped at the chance to live here! The views over the local park (the biggest city park in Europe) are absolutely fantastic.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Is one obliged to disclose that someone died there when selling a house?