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

Yes and I have done. But I wouldn’t if the murderer had still been on the loose. I also didn’t know the details - I lived there 5 years and shortly after I’d moved out (and successfully sold it on) I read an article about his request for parole in the local paper, and that had details I was glad I hadn’t known when I lived there.

Plus it was an old house so the likelihood was there would have been other awful things there over the years, plus likely lots of happy things too.

If you buy an old house there is a good chance someone died in it. There is a small chance awful things happened there like violence or abuse of some sort. So you never know.

Personally I would get over it if I really wanted the house enough

No. Not because it would bother me, but because it would be hard to sell at a later date.

I'm not sure personally... I lived in a property that I'd found out when I'd already moved in that someone was murdered there right outside my bedroom in a case of mistaken identity 😬 it did freak me out abit and also a family member moved into a place when I was a kid where someone died of natural causes in the bath of all places! (The bath was replaced with new before it was sold to her btw) I think it just sets off alsorts of imaginations when we know these things x

Dennis Nilsen?

I live in one now.

20 years ago, a husband murdered his wife in the kitchen. it’s a small town so the gossips just loved to collar me at any step to tell me when I moved in. But we already knew, we’d been renting down the road. It’s not affected the house price. In those 20 years, the price raised by 200k like everything else in the area and we were in a bidding war to buy this as it was a project in an area where prices were rising rapidly. So it certainly didn’t put anyone else off.

To be honest, the second I stepped into this house, it had such a happy feeling. It was a shit pit, in a shithole of an area, needed so much work but just felt wonderful, still does 4 years on.

Yes. I live in a 250+ year old cottage but have no real idea of its history prior to 1972. ANYTHING could have happened here. Could be murder or DV or mental breakdown, PTSD, psychotic delusions - any of those things would be unpleasant at the time but unlikely to impact on the actual fabric of the house.
And I love my house very much and like to think that it knows this.

No. There are 2 of these houses near me. Both a dad killing his child/children and wife.

@Vincenoirsrootboost I kid you not,, there have been two more this century!
Amazing name btw

@Cattery - I live a few streets away from the Denis Nilsen flat - it's a very unassuming North London suburban road, but I go a bit cold whenever I go past that particular building. (DS has a friend who lives in a house further down the street).

Remember when it came on the market a few years ago the listing stated - 'it is recommended that potential buyers investigate the history of the property before viewing'. I think it was priced quite a lot lower than most flats in a fairly expensive area - so whoever did buy it probably got quite a bargain! I couldn't live there though...

I once unwittingly bought a small plot of land from a guy who killed his wife (supposedly accidental mushroom poisoning sixty years earlier, I don't think he was ever convicted).

I've often wondered how I would have felt if I'd known. I didn't deal with the vendor directly because he was in his 90s and lived in sheltered accommodation a long way away.

For the murder house - I probably would, if it was all I could afford. This would of course depend on the murder having been a freak occurrence and not something that happens every week in that postcode!

It's also worth remembering that if a house is very old, people will have died there and some of those deaths will have been traumatic. Obviously this doesn't have the same salience as a recent murder you've seen in the news, but still...

Do you life in Midsomer or Grantchester perchance??😂

Yes. I've lived in houses that people have died in before. (Both strangers and people known to me). Even people I knew. It never bothered me, you just stop thinking about it after a while.

My late OH died while wrapped up in my sofa blanket. I sat with him for a few hours saying goodbye and took my blanket back at the end. I still cuddle up under it every night.

With how old a lot of the housing stock is in this country, bad things will have happened in almost every house over the years. Murder, sickness, fights, rapes, and other tragedies. We can't condemn every house that has an unsavoury past or we'd all be homeless in no time.

Do you live in Midsomer? 😂

Yes, if it was cheap because of it!

No

This is the way my mind works too

But i wouldn't buy that house

Some properties were people were murdered have been knocked down 25 Cromwell Street (Fred West) 16 Wardle Brook Avenue (Brady and Hindley), 5 College Close (Ian Huntley) and Mount Pleasant Ceinws (Mark Bridger)

I would not like to live in a house where murder was taken place esp with the media spending weeks outside during the case.

There's a lovely house near me where at the turn of the century a vicar beheaded his wife (almost) and climbed naked and bloody into the maids bed. It changes owners regularly despite people putting lots of time and effort into remodelling. I always wonder if they get to hear of the history and it puts them off. Then I discovered that my house had a body under the patio in the 1850s! Our village is a very murdery one apparently. I don't let it bother me as the house doesn't have any odd vibes.

I would buy a house that had that history IF it 'felt' okay.n

It wouldn’t bother me but if it was so notorious that they’d be gawkers taking photographs and influencers making videos outside, then that would put me off. But because of them, not the house.

A death of natural causes wouldn't bother me, but not a murder, and certainly not a murder of a child.

No, I think that would pray on my mind too much.
My house had a "too soon" death in it just before us but no foul play and it feels fine. But I did purposely asked the neighbour not to tell me any details because I would just think too much about it.

Ooo yes. Fascinating. I remember they pulled down the original houses. Is the area now regenerated? I guess it is x

No they don’t. It is your brain telling you there’s an energy and that’s real to you but there is no actual physical force.

I would. Surely most old houses have had someone die in them.