Would you buy a house that somebody had been murdered in?

Plus Cromwell Street.

Yep, it wouldn't bother me. A murder is terrible but there's probably all sorts of other terrible things gone on in houses, too. Rape, domestic violence, CSA, to name a few. Murder is just the most obvious one because it's been drawn into the public eye.

It's just a house. People die in houses all of the time through old age, illness, suicide. The only thing that might put me off would be re-selling, but I'm sure there'd be plenty of buyers like me who wouldn't care.

This is EXACTLY what was said to us! A gossipy old woman said ''you do know someone committed suicide in that house, don't you!''

I don't know how she died , but I wanted to sell up ASAP {but didn't!}

I'm not sure I would, depends on the price really.

There's a house near me where a murder happened a few years ago. The part of the house where it happened was pulled down and is being rebuilt, the murderer is in Jail.

It's a nice house and will sell fairly easily, probably to someone from out of the area though!

At the risk of sounding woo,if it came to it,I'd have to have a look around the house and feel the energy

When I first walked into the house I live in now,I walked in and knew I'd be living here for the rest of my life-I felt like my home

It's history is built in the late 50's,a couple lived here,she died,then he died,he left it to his granddaughter who brought up 3 dc and then sold it to us

I have no idea if anyone has died here and it wouldn't bother me if they had

I know a young lad who murdered his mother's boyfriend in his flat-battered the poor bloke to death with a hammer (he wanted to 'get his own back' on his shitty mother and the boyfriend copped it)

A friend of my brothers lives there now and isn't fazed at all,even knowing the history

Another one is my elderly great aunt lived in a 1st floor flat and the bloke who lived underneath was murdered in his flat and they propped him up on his sofa

He wasn't found for almost 4 months and was In a bit of a state when they did find him (the cat had eaten most of him)

I went on a date with a bloke who happened to live in that exact flat (years and years later)

Didn't bother him-he had his sofa in the same place the bloke had his and used to watch TV,sat in the 'fingerprint' of where the poor old man died

We moved into our house and a man delighted in telling me that someone had hung themselves in the house. I had to stop DH going round and giving the man an earful..

Exactly.. dogs especially- we had a couple of dogs in our old house {where there had been the suicide in the 1950's of the bereft woman} but our Lurcher and Whippet used to sleep on the sofa in that room all the time.

Dogs and cats sense if there are bad vibes.

I honestly don't know

I'd have to go inside and see what vibes it gives off to me

Yes if I was planning on staying there forever - I live opposite a house where a mother, child and mother in law were murdered, It sold for about 60 thousand less than the other houses on this street.

Hope you don't mind my comment OP but this has got me thinking 🤔 a family member is due to inherit a house where there was a suicide and they're planning on selling it .. would this put people off?

As for me I don't think it would bother me but not 100% sure as I go off of feelings in places 🤣

Some buildings have been bulldozed where children have been murdered. April Jones killers house was one.
Also Ian Huntleys house. They have gone.

The only issue I would have is reselling.
So it would have to be at a price that would reflect the issues others might have with it - evident in this thread. So that I wouldn't make a loss when / if selling.
Other than that it really wouldn't be a problem for me.

When I was a child our dinner lady was murdered by her husband. I often walk passed that house and wonder if the owners know what happened in their home all those years ago.
I could never feel happy there.
My friend lives in a house where a lady took her own life, he says it doesn't bother him but I feel the house has an uneasy vibe to it, couldn't live there either.

No. Places hold energy and I’m sensitive to it.

There’s a difference to murder though. I live in an old house and have researched the history. A baby and his toddler brother died 10 days apart in the mid 1850’s and I found the death certificate of someone else who died there in the 1890’s. Still wouldn’t want to knowingly live at a murder scene!

I bought a house where a neighbour {old and gossipy} told me that there had been a suicide, and that the poor woman was undiscovered for a while..

I wanted to sell immediately!

However, this {suicide} was in the 1950's. {The neighbour had lived nearby since a child and was old herself}

However, the house never felt creepy -I said in the room where she was found ''Hello {Name}, I don't mind you being here if you don't mind us being here''...but I there wasn't anything creepy at all.

It was a same sex couple, according to the gossipy old neighbour, one of the couple had died naturally, and the other couldn't bear to be without her. 🙏

There is a part of me that thinks if the house was on sale for a while and I was getting it cheaper then it's a great opportunity.

But in reality I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about what happened there .

My guess is that there has been a death in most houses at some time. Some more greasly than others

We rented a lovely house. After we'd been there a few months, a neighbour told us there'd been a murder there. Honestly, there were no bad vibes at all. In fact, the house had a lovely cosy feel, and people always commented on the good vibe. It didn't change the way I felt about the house. We stayed there a few more years.

I visit someone (for work) a few doors up from a house where a serial killer buried bodies in the garden, always gives me the creeps when I have to walk past it.

Not sure how I’d feel about living in a house where people were murdered, even if the house was perfect for me because I’d still worry about selling it on in the future as the pool of potential buyers would shrink considerably.

Nope. Not knowingly.
But, people die at home all the time. So it’s specifically that it was a murder and me knowing that would be the deal breaker.

I think they would call it ‘mixed’ . There are a lot of Notting Hill type renovations, but also a great deal of social housing. It’s very near Grenfell Tower

Murder, probably not. I did want to buy a house where someone had committed s*de in (they hadn’t been found for days, so all carpets were taken out). DH loved it until the agent informed him of the reasons why it was bare floorboards and no amount of clary sage would convince him to put an offer in! Shame as it was such a beautiful house.

There’s one a couple of miles from me where someone was tortured and murdered a couple of years ago. It’s been for sale ever since. It’s a new build and the guy who was killed was renting it from new. The poor owner must be left with a house they can’t rent or sell.

Definitely not. Although as many houses in UK are centuries old, anything could have happened in the past in them.

I see the Chris Watts house in Colorado is for sale again, and no one is keen on buying it.

Don't blame them, either.