Property - already a body in the garden here...

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www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/56-sissons-crescent/leeds/ls10-4ll/57335464/

On my word

Personally I wouldn’t mind, I think there’s something quite reassuring about it, that the person had such a happy life there they wished to be buried there. I wouldn’t be digging around too much though .

That house has been on the market for years! I swear someone started a thread about the body in the garden ages ago. I wonder if they will ever be able to sell it?

Oh god no. You can see where they are buried too. If someone flagged it and hid it well I’d buy it but with the garden like that no chance.

If you buy a house with a burial in the garden are you allowed to have the body moved? That's what I'd want to do.

The problem of course is even if you were ok with it, it’s be very hard to resell. So any investment into it could be futile.

Is that him in the front garden? It wouldn't bother me although it's quite intrusive!

Wouldn’t care at all, what are people worried about.. ghosts? The cat digging the body up.

There was a thread about this same house on here some time ago. I'd have no problem buying it if I actually wanted to live in that area.

You can exhume it as long as you have permission from the Home Office.

You wouldn't even have to allow the family access to the grave (to pay their respects for instance) whilst the body remained on your land.

There are potentially so many complications if/when the property is sold.

I always thought you had to basically still show that the house would be in the family or something to be burried in the garden.

I’d be looking to see if the body could be moved tbh.

the old mans wishes were clearly that his descendents dont get any inheritance because that house will never sell

Wouldn't bother me, and I would respect the deceased wishes and let them continue to rest there, rather than see if the body could be removed. It is definitely an unusual situation though!

I think it’s rather touching.
If it was a house I loved and depending on where the person was buried, I would consider it, but I don’t think I’d be growing vegetables.

Yes I definitely remember the thread from years back too.

How legal is that then ?

Wouldn’t bother me at all, and I’d let the family lay flowers at Xmas etc.

genuinely no problem with that. In fact I’d probably lay flowers myself in thanks he’d enabled me to get a cheaper house !

I'd be fine with it. Some decking or a patio around it with a raised flower bed over the grave and it would be fine.

I would not live in Middleton anyway, body in garden or not 🤣

Middleton an absolute dump, so I think the body is the least of that house’s problems.

they would be better off auctioning it. It’s the kind of place you see on HUTH.

It did sell in April 2021 for £90k.

It wouldn’t bother me tuppence, make a nice flowerbed and you’ll never know. It’s not as if there’s a stinking mausoleum built over it or even a gravestone.

According to Zoopla it was sold in April 2021 for £90k, not massively less than similar properties around the same time.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices/west-yorkshire/leeds/sissons-crescent/ls10-4ll/

A beautiful house near me had a couple buried together in the garden. It was a beautiful house and beautiful garden I seem to remember and sold in days.