Could you buy a house someone had died in tragically?

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Have the opportunity to buy a house with below market price. Likely to be at a good price for a four bed detached in our area but has a “bad” history if you like. it could do with renovation.

Last year, a young woman was killed in the house in a domestic incident and years before a young lad had committed suicide. My parents are local and knew the young lad and his family who owned the property but not the young woman who was renting.

Now, DP is keen to go for it as it’s unlikely that we would ever get a house the same size at a similar price and that you would struggle to find a house these days someone hadn’t died in but I am hesitant. We are also thinking of starting a family soon so can houses carry bad vibes? the house is also known locally as a bit of a spooks place so there’s that as well!

There's a house near me where previous owners are buried in the back garden. I don't know how they got permission to do it, but there is a special covenant that prohibits new owners from moving them.

I'd quite like that. They loved their house so much they wanted to stay. It puts a lot of people off though.

Go for it. Paint the walls, burn some sage or incense if you’re into this. We don’t know the history of most of the houses on the market anyway, or hotel rooms. Maybe no one died, but fights/arguments/abuse/tears most likely happened.

Maybe with a history of ine tragedy but not two.

That should say one

Fairly certain a lot of traumatic events have happened in houses I’ve lived in, just like many old houses there will be a history. I suppose the difference is knowing. I know people have definitely died in houses I’ve lived in but couldn’t tell you the circumstances.

If the house was going to be a huge benefit to my family I think I’d suck up my feelings over what happened to the previous occupants.

My DF who wasn’t particularly religious wanted us to get our house blessed when we moved in as we seemed to get a bit of bad luck after we moved in. I’d probably go down that route, bless the house, get it cleansed, do hippy naked rituals etc…

A murder and a suicide........no I couldn't I'd be imagining 'things '

I definitely would. let's be honest how many of us who have older houses know the complete history of who died and how in them?
If your worried about ghosts etc then get someone to come bless it, local priest etc

There's a famous 'murder house' near where I used to live. The murder was 30+ years ago and has never been solved. I saw the new owners on telly some years, talking about moving into such a notorious place.

They'd added on a kennels business, if I remember rightly, and the wife had even decided to give birth in the room where the body was found! She said it was to bring happiness back there, or something along those lines.

I don't think I'd be put off completely. I'd definitely view a house to see if I loved it enough and felt I'd be at home there.

Nah, I wouldn't. I think it would always be in the back of my mind. Especially on a night I was in the house all alone.

I know people die in their homes all the time, but it's the circumstances of these deaths that I couldn't get past.

I live in a house where my dh died tragically. I doubt there are many houses where nobody has died. I've also had 20 happy years here. So it wouldn't bother me.

I'd go and view the house. Some have bad vibes, some don't.

Nope, I'm not woo, but I have a ridiculously over active imagination.
Years ago we viewed a property that was going suspiciously cheap. We weren't from the area so didn't know the history - turned out the husband had murdered the wife in the main bedroom in a jealous rage while their terrified children hid in their rooms 🥲☹️. There was NO WAY I could have spent one night in there, not a chance.

I couldn't live somewhere where I knew of a murder or suicide.
In fact, I couldn't live anywhere where I knew for certain of a person dying there- even of natural causes - despite it being very likely someone actually has died in our house.
Hearing of old Mrs X passing away peacefully in our home 30years ago would still all these years later make me feel uncomfortable and I just know I'd start imagining things.
A dear family member died in his bedroom in his lovely house and every time I walk past the house I shiver and think of it.

Previously I’d have said get the bargain for your family but now not so sure. We once bought a house where each couple who lived in it had split (3 marriages from the time it was built). We bought it off the last couple and to be honest I kind of felt there was something off about the place. I’m not saying it was cursed but even once renovated, there was the slightly defeated feeling of a place where things didn’t work out. Spent a lot of cash and ended up with a cracking house but I never felt 100% at home. We ended up having to move after six years due to a different sort of tragedy. I’m 100% not saying ‘the house did it’ but I never felt it was meant to be and wasn’t overly sad to see it go.

Damn! I wouldn't if you didn't know yes but you know

I’d have to have someone come and clear any energy in the house left from those tragedies. I think the souls could linger.

There’s a house that something very tragic happened in about 20 years ago near me, every time I walk past I still think of them, and no I couldn’t ever live there.

Absolute no from me.

40 years ago a woman was murdered in the next street to where I lived. It's still known in the village as murder cottage and if it ever comes in the market takes a very long time to sell.

I have friends lived in a house where the previous owner was murdered. It was very cheap!

exactly what i was thinking.

You won’t want to buy an old house then. Because there will have been some sudden death, death in childbirth etc… in any house that is more than 100 years old….

This reminded me of a long-forgotten incident from many years ago, when we were about to sell our first home and an estate agent had come to value it and take details. When he was about to leave, he said he wanted to ask my opinion on something (purely hypothetical, as he knew were leaving the area) - would we ever consider buying a house where a murder had recently been committed? The agency had just taken such a property onto their books and were a bit uncertain about how to go about marketing it. He was just gauging opinion, I suppose, but I was still a bit taken aback!

Don't listen to any of the nay sayers. They are just trying to spook everyone so they 'll get a fantastic deal.

I couldn't it would play on my mind way too much! I know people die in houses all the time. In my house growing up 3 people died all of natural causes and that didn't bother me. But murder/ suicide is different.

I would buy it then get a priest to do a house blessing. I know a lot of people will laugh at that, but each to their own.