Surprise in your rose garden - Rightmove

[Chanandlerbong01]

Just browsing Rightmove earlier, glad I read the full description. Is this even legal?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76868103.html

How sad if they had him exhumed. I seem to be alone with my point of view here which I’m genuinely surprised about but can see that my way of looking at it is the minority viewpoint!

I can’t understand how he even though it would be a permanent resting place.

You need written authority from close relatives to exhume a body, which is all siblings and all children, any remaining parents and spouse.

Given the body has just been buried, I really doubt they’d give permission to exhume and move them to another site.

If someone bought the house this really wouldn’t be an option any time soon.

I think the house has been pretty much rendered valueless/unsellable.The price would need to be very very low to entice someone to buy it with a body in the back garden like that.

What I can’t get is it is substantially over priced. In its current condition, with the possibly rented solar panels, a football logo on the roof, and half the garden rented from the council, then it would be max 90-100k. You add in a fresh body in thr back garden, and it’s probably 50-75.

Yet it’s been over priced at 125. Even though there is another terrace a couple of mins away. on for that same price, which is in good condition, has a proper garden, no solar panels, no football logo,. and doesn’t have anyone buried in the back yard.

Which indicates when the family have done this, they didn’t understand the financial implications of what they were doing.

No matter how cheap a lot of people simply won’t buy a house with a newly deceased body in the back yard like that. It’s too difficult to sell on and too discomfiting to have to look at every day knowing the body is there. Even developers won’t touch it.

Although I think the family are probably realising now the implications of it. The fact it’s all over the media, and the agent has pulled the sale. Likely due to too much of the wrong type of interest.

I do wonder if someone had said to them, yes you can, but it’s going to cost you the loss of a hundred grand, if they’d still have proceeded. The over inflated price tag, indicates maybe not.

Exhuming a body is a lot more difficult and fraught with really serious legal complications (as it should be for a variety of reasons) than interring one in the first place.

A body can't be exhumed without a court order.

Exception is graveyards that have been there a very long time and the land is earmarked for development.

I looked on the street view on Google and the house was being renovated as load of stuff is in the front garden- you can see flooring etc. Also you can see someone in the back garden.
From a satellite view the dark patch always was there..
I wonder how old the photos are as the house did not look renovated on the EA photos.
Oh maybe I was looking on a different house?
Or perhaps the pics on Street view are very fresh like yesterday?

Are you sure you’re looking at the right house?

The address is wrong on the real estate page. .the road type is incorrect- it's the same name but road type should read "Avenue"

@Washingmyself I thought it looked like the house next door being renovated rather than the house with the body. Looked like the neighbours had just dumped stuff in the (front!) garden of their soon to be departed next door neighbour.

@leasedaudi3
I thought it was crescent. Everything looks very same .. the Leeds sigh, the solar panels.. even the fence.. I must be the same house I looked at.

@Bluntness100 yes. Definitely.
Everything looks identical.
Only the stuff outside the front garden is gone.
Maybe the neighbour ps decorated... Check yourself.

Just been discussed on Jeremy Vine!!

Washing, I did, and couldn’t see it. Maybe I was looking at the wrong house, but the house with all the stuff outside snd floor boards was a different one.

We live in a old chapel with graves. When my husband strims the grass round them he often asks ' is that a no2 cut sir'

Sorry bluntness you're are right!

Sorry I meant @Washingmyself is right I think

I looked it up a couple of days ago after a pp mentioned the common land at the back to try and get my head around how on earth the council could own part of the garden. PP was right, there's a clear line half way down that row of gardens backing on to the common land which presumably is the dividing line between the private gardens and council owned sections.
It's easy to spot with the solar panels on the roof. FWIW I don't think it's been renovated, but I think an element of clearing had been done.

This is from google street view

@MaggieFS I assume it's some sort of arrangement where the council are holding back land for potential redevelopment- sometime in the future they'll probably stop renting out land and build on it?

@leasedaudi3 I just double checked and it is definitely the one I saw with the stuff outside.
On the aerial satellite view the stuff it outside neighbours house- so perhaps they moved it both sides as needed space.
@bluntless it’s is the one I meant with the stuff outside on the Streetview, everything matches, even the plant baskets etc.
It is in the Crescent..

@leasedaudi3 yep that’s the one I meant.
First I was confused as I thought the green doors are already neighbours, but then I realised it one big house.

Actually washing you are right, sorry, looks like old wood/flooring and the bit of the kitchen removed.

I’m not surprised it’s receiving so much attention, it’s such an unusual thing to do.

I think the Leeds crest and the green door belong to a neighbour. We can only see the side of the body's house I think.

I was all for discussing this unusual house and circumstance, but calling it 'the body's house' is a bit much, IMHO.

Sorry @MaggieFS :(