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

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lucy889 · 10/03/2025 14:18

Around 12 years ago, an awful murder involving a child and parent happened a few miles from our house, it was such a shock and the house has been empty ever since.

It's now on the market, I personally could never buy it or live there and I feel sad every time I drive by.

Would you buy it given the history if it was perfect for you?

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LadyGAgain · 12/03/2025 00:08

Yes. No issue at all. The house didn't determine the situation.

85pinkballoons · 12/03/2025 00:07

IVbumble · 10/03/2025 15:28

I knew someone who wouldn't buy a house because their dog wouldn't go through the front door when they viewed.

I wouldn't buy either if my dog refused to go into the house. Animals can tell if something isn't right about a person or place.

CountessWindyBottom · 11/03/2025 23:59

85pinkballoons · 11/03/2025 23:51

I'm a bit taken aback that you'd consider buying it so that you could profit from the fairly recent, violent death of a child on the property.

Agreed. Wow.

85pinkballoons · 11/03/2025 23:51

MaroonedinWales · 11/03/2025 18:24

I would consider buying it, but only to Airbnb it. I understand people not wanting to buy to live in it but I'll bet there's a huge market for people wanting the experience of staying a weekend in such a place.

I'm a bit taken aback that you'd consider buying it so that you could profit from the fairly recent, violent death of a child on the property.

TheFatCatsWhiskers1 · 11/03/2025 23:41

The house I grew up in was cheap because the previous owners died in a very tragic accident. The accident didn't take place in the home but it put a lot of people off.

Bowies · 11/03/2025 23:35

I wouldn’t, but strangely sensitive to energy in buildings - I didn’t like the ‘feel’ of one of the old houses I grew up in and spent as much time as possible outside!

Knowing this horrible and sad incident would dwell on my mind also.

CyanMaker · 11/03/2025 23:26

This is off the subject but it reminded me of an incident that happened in my state(inUSA). There was a pediatrician who was abusing his patients. The town where he lived didn't even try to sell his house after he went to prison. They tore it down because so many people in that close knit community had taken their children to that monster and they were traumatized looking at that house.

OnePearlHelper · 11/03/2025 23:25

There was one near me, a son brutally killed his parents. It went up for a sale about a year later, someone did buy it and live there now. I would struggle personally but I know many wouldn’t.

Boredofbeinganadult · 11/03/2025 23:15

MaroonedinWales · 11/03/2025 18:24

I would consider buying it, but only to Airbnb it. I understand people not wanting to buy to live in it but I'll bet there's a huge market for people wanting the experience of staying a weekend in such a place.

How morbid

Boredofbeinganadult · 11/03/2025 23:13

couldn’t buy it, so tragic that a child and their parent were murdered in that house and like others have said I would think about it a lot. Would be different if a person had died in a house of natural causes but to know a child was murdered in that house would put me off massively.

CountessWindyBottom · 11/03/2025 22:41

Absolutely no way. I pick up on the energy of people and places so it just wouldn't work. And I'd be thinking of the poor child constantly.

AnEnglishCircedee · 11/03/2025 21:44

No

Flopsy145 · 11/03/2025 21:36

I'm big into spirits and energies and it's a no from me. A violent death releases a huge energy and especially with kids, that kind of energy will linger and it will just be super sad and hard to live with

jcsc · 11/03/2025 21:32

We are selling a property where a man was stabbed to death. It went under offer quite quickly.
We also sold a house where the owner had sadly killed herself in the bath.
We had a legal obligation to advise all viewers before they viewed that one was a murder and one was a suicide as it was the first sale since the events had occurred. A lot of people chose not to view.

IsthatyouKateAdie · 11/03/2025 21:24

XxSideshowAuntSallyx · 11/03/2025 07:00

When I was a child we lived in a house where someone murdered his wife and children and committed suicide. It was never really mentioned or talked about, but I'm glad we only lived there 5 years (it was the last army quarter we lived in before my Dad retired from the army).

We lived in an army quarter in York that had an uncomfortable feeling. Turns out it had been lived in by James Blount's family when he was a child. Do crimes against music count?

Looloolullabelle · 11/03/2025 21:22

I get it op. Someone I knew quite well was murdered 19 years ago. I now live in the same street and a few doors up from the house she was murdered in.
The house is currently on the market. It was sold a few years after her murder and I often wonder if the people living in it know about the murder. I’m not sure I could live in a house someone was murdered in.

bumblebee1000 · 11/03/2025 21:19

My aunt viewed a house for sale, GLC, house was 5k, 4 storey town house in hackney, man hanging from banisters, she offered 3k and bought it very cheap and recently sold it for 1.7m and retired to spain, it didnt bother her...another house in my road had a murder, wife was burnt alive by husband, new owners had no idea of its history until we chatted a few years ago...murder was appx 20 years ago so we all assumed they knew about it.

99problems99 · 11/03/2025 21:16

lucy889 · 10/03/2025 14:18

Around 12 years ago, an awful murder involving a child and parent happened a few miles from our house, it was such a shock and the house has been empty ever since.

It's now on the market, I personally could never buy it or live there and I feel sad every time I drive by.

Would you buy it given the history if it was perfect for you?

What case was this? Was it in the news? Could you share what happened I’m very curious. How very sad. There’s a house along from me in Newcastle where a young man was suffering psychosis of some sort and returned from uni to love with his grandmother and dad whilst getting help. One day he decided the voices he heard telling him his grandmother (who I believe was in her 90s) and his dad were plotting to kill him, so he killed them both. I’ve heard he pretty much decapitated his grandmother and chopped his dad’s bits off.

the house has been up and down and up and down for sale for years. It’s now been bought a renovated, things added but not changed as such.. every time I drive past I get the creeps.

I remember when the house first went up for sale, the pictures inside listed on the estate agent site, were sooo eerie. No carpets in the living room and when reading the article about the murder they said the ‘grandmother was murdered whilst sitting on her chair in the front room by the fire’ the pics of the fire and no carpet just freaked me right out.

so I digress. But…

no. I couldn’t. lol

Nikki75 · 11/03/2025 21:05

No chance

Hmm1234 · 11/03/2025 20:07

No I wouldn’t if I knew the history have watched too many horrors, The Enfield Haunting etc. it wouldn’t sit right with me deciding a paint colour in a room someone had been murdered in or kids playing in a garden where a body had been 😮 I bet many people have without even knowing even when an elderly person has died in a home I’d prefer not to know

Nextdoor55 · 11/03/2025 20:04

Yes. I'd get the sage sticks out

Hmm1234 · 11/03/2025 20:02

IPM · 10/03/2025 14:23

Yes if the house was right.

My friend needed a 3 bed council house so wasn't really in a position to be fussy, when she discovered a teenage girl had been bludgeoned to death in the garden, rolled in some carpet, put in a wheelbarrow and wheeled down the road to be dumped in the park.

She did however have to fend off a drunk man claiming to be the girls uncle who knocked on her door at midnight, on the 10th anniversary of the girl's death.

But other than that, it was a lovely house and her and her family were very happy there.

Omg 😦

Chattyham · 11/03/2025 19:56

I live in a house where the son murdered his mother… this happened around 20years ago.
im totallly fine with it, doesn’t bother me at all. Actually didn’t even know about it until after we moved in!!

Wendolino · 11/03/2025 19:50

YouOKHun · 11/03/2025 19:22

@Wendolino a relative of mind died a violent death and wasn't found in their property for a few days. When I was eventually given the keys and went in I was really shocked to find that the clean up was down to me. I don't know what I expected and I am not sure I expected it to have been cleaned up by magic exactly but I didn't expect to be allowed in without any warning at all about what I would see let alone have to deal with. It therefore doesn't surprise me that no one had cleaned up in the house you mention.

That's awful, worse for you with it being a relative.
I would think they'd get in one of those deep cleaning firms to sort it out.
The person I knew didn't know the murder happened in that house until one of the neighbours told her after she moved in. Her husband had decorated before they moved in. As far as I know they were happy there, her mum never said otherwise.

BlueFlowers5 · 11/03/2025 19:50

I'd have it blessed by my vicar, then yes.