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

I wouldn't. Don't believe in ghosts etc but it would make me think of the horrible incident and would stop the house feeling "nice" to be in. I'd imagine most times walking through that hallway it would pop into my head.

No. I'm not superstitious or "woo" at all but I know I would think about it often and it would stop me enjoying the house.

I expect it was the previous Rillington Place ( Christie). I used to live near there, the whole street had been pulled down and rebuilt in the 1970’s.I also knew someone who lived there ( he wasn’t very nice!)

No, not in the case of the murder of a child as you describe, I think I'd spend so much time thinking about them.

As the earth revolves around the sun, the murder would have occurred in a different place albeit within the house.

Personally, no.
I live in Spain, and I know that people agree with me mostly. 1 house near me, one Brazilian young man murdered his uncle, his wife and two toddlers, put the bodies in garbage bags and piled them in the lounge. Was found out when landlord went to ask why the previous month´s rent hadn´t been paid. They have tried to rent or sell this house, and it has been impossible, they redid the inside, new floors, new bathrooms and kitchens, etc. no one will go near it. The owner has been told to bulldoze it and rebuild. And this is like this for other addresses made famous because a crime had been committed there.

Straight after the murder or within a few years - no I don't think I could.

After 12 years though I think enough time would have passed.

No I definitely wouldn't, natural causes wouldn't bother me but murder no

No, i feel i would pick up on the energy

No. Houses hold energies.

There was a house in the village where I was brought up that was empty throughout my childhood and even had curtains in rags hanging in the windows - it’s lived in now but was like that for at least 20 years and probably much longer . It was a pretty cottage in an attractive location so I’m guessing a lot of people were put off by its history

It depends how much it is and whether it's something I'd be interested in if it wasn't for the murder. Ultimately the price, because it would be a factor when I came to resell it. If it was 10% less than a non-murder house in a similar location and of similar quality, I wouldn't touch it. If it was 95% less, I probably would.

To an extent it would depend on the nature of the murder too. There's a difference between a Fred and Rose West type of murder house to an Oscar Pistorius one. A place where people were tortured to death and then buried in the basement or garden would be more offputting to me than somewhere where there was a one-off act. (I know the West's place was demolished, I'm just using it as an example).

I don't believe the place would be haunted or anything like that. Any older property will have seen its share of death over the years. But I might never feel entirely comfortable in a "house of horrors" type of place.

No way. Very sure nobody died in our house but that doesn’t stop unexplained things moving in front of our eyes. I would be too freaked out to live in a murder house.

No I wouldn't. It's not superstition or anything "woo". I am just a person who loves to connect with the history of a place and imagine all the things that went before. I've always lived in old houses for this reason. Every day I find myself daydreaming about who might have lived here before me, how they spent their time, imagining them looking at all the same fireplaces and windows and skirting boards that I see each day. I think I would be unable to stop myself from imagining awful things as well if I was aware of them.

Yes- it's just a building

I wonder what any piece of land in the world has seen throughout the milennia....who knows what happened thousands of years ago on the ground where your house sits....

Yes provided the price was right and I was comfortable with the circumstances of resale if needed.

@mindutopia you have to declare a body in the garden but that is different to events that happened in the property being declared (I don’t believe you need to)

I want to say yes OP because it's irrational to believe in curses etc

But I wonder if I would actually buy it in reality?

I am more worried about global warming- future suffering- than any previous incidents.

Probably not. Maybe if it had been a very very long time ago – like several hundred years.

Maybe?

Natural deaths in a house wouldn't bother me at all. A murder would be different though...but I wouldn't rule out buying the house altogether if it was what I was looking for

Was it Denis Nilsen’s old place?

No, but some people wouldn’t care, especially if it’s an investment. I’d be curious to know if it has to be declared. For example, we looked at a house that had a body buried in the garden (oddly, seller’s sister’s nieces goddaughter or some similarly very tenuous relation and no direct connection to the property, as in they didn’t previously live there). And that had to be declared.

No.
I think because of the type of person I am I would have nightmares, my brain would work over time and I would become convinced it’s haunted.
Also to know that people have really suffered in that house it would never feel like a home.