Stalker house buyers

Profoundly weird.

I'm in the process of buying as a first timer as well, and would never dream of doing this! I viewed the property twice, and since then, have stayed away! I don't anticipate seeing it again until I get the keys in-hand!

Perhaps mention it to your solicitor and/or estate agent? They should be able to have a quiet word about acceptable behaviour.

I'd speak to the agent,see if they can have a word with them.

They sound slightly unhinged.

they are peering through the window
if they are trespassing, going in your front yard -even if it's a meter long - then yes, you can complain to the estate agent, or your solicitor.

If they are on the public pathway, then YABU. It's your choice not to have privacy blinds or curtains, you cannot complain because people can see you on the sofa.

but I just want to enjoy my house before we leave in peace and quiet! The kind where you can scratch your butt whilst waiting for the kettle to boil, without worrying that someone’s peeking in and catching you! Lol
most of us have that privacy, again, it's called "curtains".

Some people do complete on the day they exchange. And move in. In the "British" system.

It’s definitely invasive, impolite and a bit stalkerish. I would agree with previous suggestions to have the estate agent ‘have a word’. It’s a complete invasion of privacy and in a way it is ‘gentle intimidation’. If anything were to fall through on the sale - they could become unmanageable. Plus they should not be teaching their kids that it is ‘okay’ to stalk other people’s property. Appreciate the wanting to be kind to other cultures - but this is not okay anywhere.

YABU.

They're about to spend £1000s on your house, the most expensive thing they've bought in their lives, so as they live close they are no doubt making sure you aren't keeping quiet about crazy neighbours or awful street parking Wars!

You only have to read all the posts on here from people who have bought a property and discovered the neighbours are a nightmare!

Ask the estate agent to have a word

We had buyers like this except they didn't walk past loads, but they wrote various demands and had expectations of us as sellers as though we were their landlords. We did think maybe a differing culture and being first time buyers contributed, but they were fully demanding and self centred and then eventually tried to ask for £5k several weeks after they moved in, for a new bathroom because they found evidence of new leak under the flooring (that we would not have known about). They were very entitled all the way through and it was quite stressful.

Hopefully that's not your buyers and they are just super excited!

Oh, for goodness' sake! They're excited about their new home. They visit it every day just to check they aren't dreaming! It's doing you no real harm.

And waving at you!? Sounds like something out of a horror movie. It might be the norm in their home country though lol

I would roll with it and be happy that they are clearly excited, which hopefully means they won’t pull out.

This.

I'd be popping out to ask them if they were okay.

😂😂😂

My DP used to deliberately drive a slightly longer route to work so he could admire our new house while we were waiting to complete. Luckily for the sellers, he only went to the office once a week. It was a seriously upgrade from a tiny existing house and we were really excited

Oh bless them they're obviously excited (at least they're not bringing damp meters or decibel readers round). Other cultures are much happier being direct, so they probably think if you had an issue you'd just have said. You could either just pop out and say "is it alright if you don't come past so often, it sets the dog off" or ask your estate agent to gently explain they need to arrange visits via them and not just pop past whenever they want

a thoought.....you might ask them why they are doing it?

Ah just leave it, house sales are precious! Like you say they're not from the UK so it might be the norm for where they've come from and they're obviously excited! When we were buying the house we lived in now we already lived in the area but were so excited for our kids to have their own big bedrooms we walked past twice and on the 2nd time the owners invited us in, the kids were beside themselves. Just take it as a compliment that your house is so nice they can't stop looking at it. Put some voiles up if you're desperate for privacy until you leave.

genuinely puzzled, WHY would your husband have to "keep you calm" because of people walking in the street?

If you are that bothered about privacy, keep blinds or curtains? I do, no-one can see inside my house from the outside.

I have a neighbour who does this multiple times a day with her dog just to be nosy, not for any other reason, so only having to put up with it for a few more weeks sounds like heaven to me because we've been living with it for years and she's a few cm away from our windows rather than a metre.

We got shutters and closed them (tops are still open so she can't see in and we get light). You just need to shut your curtains a bit earlier in the evening.

Yep this would be me to! I could not cope with this, my husband would be trying keep me calm! I’d have at least closed the curtains to stop them!

“Notice to public: please don’t stop outside our home and look through the windows, it makes the dog bark”

It's a public street, people stop wherever they please
but a sign like that will guarantee that everyone will stop and look 😂

Yes, pretty minor in the scheme of this I think. And finite. They are excited, try to think of it as something nice?

Before we moved into our new place, I kept driving past every so often mainly to check what the noise was like at different times like a previous comment mentioned, but I certainly didn’t look in the windows 😳 that’s very strange behaviour and I have to say I would be super annoyed by that too. Maybe not enough to ruin the house sale, depends how desperate you are to sell I suppose.

Personally I would either just draw the curtains or like someone else said you could get the mirror screens so they can’t see anything, hopefully that would put them off if they aren’t getting anything out of walking past and staring in! I know drawing the curtains is annoying and you absolutely shouldn’t have to, but If it’s only another two months it might be worth just doing until they get the hint!

another option I suppose would be putting a sign up somewhere and trying to make it look like it’s aimed at everyone not just them, but something along the lines of “Notice to public: please don’t stop outside our home and look through the windows, it makes the dog bark” 🤷🏻‍♀️

I went by at different times and days to see if the area was ok. Schools and weekends change the atmosphere and parking levels. Sadly just deal with it you are moving soon