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!

It all depends on how the house felt to me when I viewed it.

We viewed a house once and it just felt like an unhappy home. No deaths that we knew of, fairly new property. I think the walls can absorb things like energy etc (completely bananas, I know!) but it just felt so oppressive and dark even though on paper it was everything we wanted, I know I wouldn’t have ever felt happy living there. Found out afterwards the couple were going through a bitter divorce.

I’ve lived in an old Victorian property where it’s pretty much guaranteed someone must have died in it and it was a lovely, happy house.

MIL died at home under sad circumstances, I still can’t bring myself to go into the bedroom she died in and hate visiting as I think about it every time we’re there. Can’t even sit in the chair she used to sit in. It’s all I can think of and I feel an unhappy energy.

If I didn’t know and/or the house felt like a happy home then fine, if I knew something bad had happened and the place gave off bad vibes then no.

No, I wouldn't. It would really put me off.
I feel disturbed reading these details, nevermind living somewhere where it happened.

Residents there some hear screaming, some see shadows gliding around

🤣🤣🤣

There's a house near us where one of the most notorious multiple murders of the past 50 years took place. Current owners had no idea when they bought and only found out when journalists came knocking on the anniversary of the event.

Not that one. It was carbon monoxide deaths aboard. Kids died, and it was our first holiday with baby DD, I just knew my heart would overpower my head the whole time…

I'd go for it. You could always get a vicar to bless it 🤷‍♀️

I don't think I would if they'd been 2 previous deaths in the house, murder and suicide would be a bit much.

I assume the bodies were found quickly? Apparently decomposing corpses cause horrific damage to the floor!

The elderly lady who previous owned our house died here, but she was very happy and there's a lovely happy vibe to this house.

In a previous house that we lived in for the first 13 years of my kids lives, my dd could see the hall from her bedroom and used you see a man walking up the stairs at night and go into the spare bedroom. We found out after we moved out that the male lodger had killed his landlady in the that bedroom after getting home from the pub one night. 🤷‍♀️

I wouldn't.

Once you know the circumstances you would always be thinking about it.

I wouldn’t give it a second thought. I’d snap it up.
Saying that, I used to live in a house where a lot of people died, so I’m probably less bothered than most people would be.

Someone blew there brains out in my lounge I don’t think about it at all

Oh I remember a story about that too, just awful

I would happily live in a house where a natural death had taken place, tragic or not. Circle of life and all that.

I would be put off buying a house where a murder or suicide had taken place (in recent history). I wouldn't be so bothered if it was something that happened a long time ago though...unless particularly notorious. I think resale value, local gossip/press and potential "bad vibes" (real or imagine) factor into my reasoning.

Oddly, we once rented a house where the previous owner (young woman) was killed in a horrific accident (not in the house). The house was subsequently being rented out by her family, fully furnished with her furniture etc. We found out through receiving some post in her name (unusual name) and being nosey. The entire time we lived in the house we were plagued with bad luck and were both incredibly miserable living there. Most likely this was just our crap circumstances at the time, but when we moved away it was like a veil had been lifted.

I wouldn’t mind that at all.

I wouldn't. My friend lived in a place where a high profile murder happened (it continued to be in the news even 30 years+ on) it really did have a horrible feel (someone who didn't know the history had a weird reaction going in part of the house). My friend is the least woo/spooked person but even she couldn't go in parts that house. At uni I also lived on the street where a really horrific murder took place (it was a child), I only realised it was that street after signing the rent agreement and went on a frantic Google to make sure it wasn't our house. It wasn't, thankfully. It weirded me out so much that I actually used to walk the long way to lectures to avoid passing it. It was occupied by overseas students who will have had no idea of the horror that went on in there.

I do actually think even negative energy can linger, our current house every couple that has lived in it before us seems to have broken up (neighbours who have lived here 30 years told us). We had a rough patch about a year after we moved in (stresses of work, kids etc) and I actually said omg it's the house isn't it!! We are still here and married 8 years on but I do think our house has a weird vibe. I don't think there's anything tragic etc happen here but it definitely has something weird. The place I lived as a child dated back to the 1700s and at least 1 person did die tragically (yes google), someone told my parents there was a murder too, but who knows. I was only a child (obviously had no idea about any of this) but I was so creeped out, a very weird place.

The day my parents moved into the house they still have now an elderly neighbour popped up over the fence to tell them it was a tragic house 🤣. Someone killed themselves there. Again a weird vibe that to this day we all feel, even my very un-woo dad admits he feels it!

So no, even a steal no thanks.

I once visited a friend who had a rented room in a huge house in Holland Park. It was a beautiful mansion house, but it had the most horrible atmosphere, a sort of closing in feeling, thick and oppressive. I was so happy to leave and go out into Spring sunshine. It gives me the creeps thinking about it even now.
The owner had gone abroad, his son had committed suicide in the house, but the feeling of the house wasn’t so much one of sadness or despair, as one of anger, violent rage.
I have never been in anywhere else that felt quite like it. It really was like something from a film, it had a nightmare like quality.

Considering how many women are murdered by their partners I’d imagine a lot of houses in the UK are ‘murder houses’

Someone blew there brains out in my lounge I don’t think about it at all

@Mrspostitnote hope you weren’t there at the time.

I don’t think I could do it, but that’s just me. Suicide and murder is quite a lot to have happened within a few years in one home.

I like the previous post that mentioned about honouring the home and making peace with the sad past of the place, acknowledging the individuals’ painful pasts with a ceremony 🤍 I can understand and appreciate that, doing something like that would maybe get me on board with buying a place with such a sad history. But I’d still be a bit wary of the house’s energy (I know, this sounds daft). I do think there are some places that are just not healthy to be in because of the property’s past.

Also it depends if you can switch off from what has happened in the house. I think it would play on my mind when I’m at home alone or at nighttime, in the first few months at least. Also, would your future children become aware of the past and their imaginations run riot.

I’d need to get a dog if I moved into this house 😅

I personally couldn't. A house where someone had died naturally would be one thing - I know a house where the woman died and sadly wasn't discovered for several months and I always wonder if the current tenants know or mind.

But a full on murder, nah I couldn't cope with knowing someone had their life ended in a horrific fashion in the place I called home. It would really distress me. We've inherited and are moving into a house with a rather sad history, but I'm going to try and love the house for as long as we are there and give it some TLC.

No but the lady whose husband it was moved directly opposite till she passed she was a wonderful woman and her husband an abusive bastard so never had bad thought about it she was very pleased for us as a young family moving in and was an amazing neighbour to have xx