Disclosing the ‘history’ of a house

[LeftmostAardvark]

Does anyone know if there is a legal requirement to disclose the history of a house when trying to sell it? For example, if there was a major crime that happened at some point in the past?

I’ve done some basic googling but come up with nothing, although my google-fu ain’t great.

Thanks

[Berkshire bred]

Who did you brutally murder and them bury under the patio?

[Mike335i]

Never really get why it would matter anyway, it's not as though haunted houses are real.

[TooMany2cvs]

No, just disputes with the neighbours.

<thinks>
I s'pose if the neighbours murdered the previous occupants...

[Boosted LS1]

Hello you are Mr West and I claim my £5.

It's a house your're selling not a slab of history. Just make sure you've removed the evidence from under the hearth or patio and you'll get top dollar :-).

[craigjm]

Would be a laugh to show someone round the house and walk into the lounge and say..... Over there by the fire is where the mother and youngest child were found..... the father managed to crawl into the dining room before giving in to his injuries. The youngest child has never been found......

Imagine the rest of the viewing after that

[Ultuous]

Boosted LS1 said:

Hello you are Mr West and I claim my £5.

It's a house your're selling not a slab of history. Just make sure you've removed the evidence from under the hearth or patio and you'll get top dollar :-).

I presume the whole point is to escape from the evidence!

[Boosted LS1]

When I wallpaper the back bedroom I'm going to scribe on the wall in red paint 'they made me do it' lol.

I already know of severall deaths here, none of which increased the value of my house, selfish gits. That's why I hid them out of sight :-)

[Wildcat45]

There is a house with "I will kill Again" sprayed in big letters on the plumbing room floor.

I was having laminate floor laid - modern house with concrete floors - and was having a laugh with the guy fitting it when we came up with the idea.

The house has changed hands a couple of times. According to pictures on Zoopla the people I sold it to kept the flooring.

Maybe its yet to be discovered.

[paulmakin]

mispost, nothing to see here

[Mojooo]

Private seller - no

Estate Agent advertising in course of business - possibly - it depends what it is

[wst]

The father of a mate of mine in Uni lets a few houses out. One of his tenant was murdered by their husband in the house, in the last year or so. I wonder if the new tenants know...

[stewjohnst]

Servant girl hung herself from the beam in top floor room of our current house...mind you was back in 1903 so not sure it will have much of a bearing on valuations.

[covboy]

An oldie but goldie

http://mistupid.com/people/page077.htm

[Wildcat45]

What about war damage? I found a photo once of a group of houses near me the morning after a German bomb landed close by. They were pretty badly damaged - the front walls pushed inwards - but look fine today. They were quite new when bombed so the new brickwork blends in.

I've no idea if people were killed or injured in them. I've often wondered if significant repairs were ever noticed or disclosed.

My present house has "action damage" as my mate in the navy calls it. I know the story behind the two incidents because I knew the old lady who lived here in the war.

One was a landmine that took out the windows and ornate plaster ceilings.

The other - scoring to stone and brickwork - was done by a barrage balloon that broke free from the nearby golf course and got snagged on our roof.

[cjs racing.]

craigjm said:

Over there by the fire is where the mother and youngest child were found.....

. The youngest child has never been found......

Want to try that one again?

[craigjm]

cjs racing. said:

craigjm said:

Over there by the fire is where the mother and youngest child were found.....

. The youngest child has never been found......

Want to try that one again?

D’oh!!!

[LeftmostAardvark]

Mojooo said:

Private seller - no

Estate Agent advertising in course of business - possibly - it depends what it is

Can you go into a bit more detail please?

[Sa Calobra]

We once viewed a house where the husband had killed the family. It was common local knowledge though.

Our house- both wives of the same owner died in it. The neighbours told us this.

[C Lee Farquar]

My understanding is that you have to declare if a murder has taken place at a property, but IANAL.