Would you tell your neighbour that you have sold your house?

[MinnieMountain]

Our neighbours have sold their house, but not told us. We're civil with them rather than friendly but I still find it odd.

They didn't have a sign up, I found out from looking at house prices in our area on Rightmove.

I saw them last week as I needed a chat about having their tree trimmed. Asked how they are generally- no mention of it.

This is the reason why I wouldn’t tell.

Ours is on the market now. I messaged the neighbours the week before to let them know it would be on the market, so to expect to see some comings and going and the sign. I wouldn't be bothered if they told me not not though, I was just trying to be polite and in a small town they'll all know soon enough anyway.

Kindly, none of your business. Perhaps they have personal reasons why.

I found out when the moving van turned up 😳 - happily our new neighbours are v nice.

Where we live the houses are sets of three - we are terraced in the middle of two - been here 20 years and same neighbours all that time then last year one set moved, no sign up and didn’t tell us until we saw them months later moving stuff out - didn’t bother us tbf they were miserable bastards and alcoholics so I was glad when they buggered off but I’d never expect them or the other neighbours to tell us. we live next to them not with them so none of our business

Super close to neighbors but wouldn’t necessarily tell immediately. May wait til I’ve found somewhere to buy and then more sure of moving?

Id tell our adjacent neighbours as we are friendly, but I probably wouldnt tell any others as we don't cross paths. I would if I saw them on the street

i don’t find it odd, but then I’ve lived here for over ten years with the same neighbours either side and have not had more than a couple of words here or there. I can see how others might though!

If you get a lot of passers by it's worth putting up a board, otherwise I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't tell neighbours until the last minute (unless we were really friendly), some people are a bit keen to know all about the buyers, most of which you don't know! Are they nice, are they quiet, do they have dogs, do they have teenagers... We're just selling the house not vetting the buyers.

My ex neighbour put a post on our local FB community page.

I would with our current neighbours one side as we’re kind of friends I think, but if we weren’t I’m not sure I’d bother. Have we done before.. I think sometimes yes, sometimes no. Would it bother me if someone moved and didn’t tell me? Not really unless I felt we were friendly then I might think it was a bit weird. But I think I’d be like well I’m sure they have their reasons 🤷‍♀️.

Same happened to me. We’d chatted a lot, especially over the fence during Covid. Never mentioned it was for sale, but a friend noticed that it was on an estate agent’s website as sold. Then they looked put out when I mentioned they were moving and they left without a farewell. No idea why and I was upset, quite a bit.

Our estate agent had a list of potential buyers who particularly wanted a house in our road, and they contacted them all when we decided we wanted to sell. The house didn’t go on their website, in their window, or on Rightmove, and we initially agreed with them that we would review things after a couple of months. But they assured us they would be able to sell it long before then, and we had two offers after the first week of viewings.

Our neighbours (a couple) sold without telling anyone. They did a moonlight flit and the removal people turned up next day and cleared everything out but said they'd been told not to say where it was going to. Turned out they (the couple) owed money to almost everyone on the street, hence the secrecy!

Nothing strange about that at all. I might mention it in passing if it came to me at the time, but I wouldn't go out my way to tell them.

Too be honest it wouldnt occur to me to tell them unless it specifically came up in conversation! & wouldnt expect them to go out of their way to tell us either.

Our odd neighbour didn't mention it and there was no sign up. But DH was in the garden one day and said he'd overheard what sounded like a viewing. So I looked it up and it was on Rightmove.

The first we knew she was going was when cones and council notices appeared reserving space for the removal lorry.

Unless you are actual friends as opposed to neighbors why would you bother?

It's a total lottery who lives next door to you and chances are they are people you have nothing in common with and don't even like.

Most people want to be civil to their neighbors just because living in close proximity to people you have fallen out with is difficult but if you are leaving you wouldn't give a toss.

I didn’t tell our neighbours until right before we were moving. I never made a point of going round to tell them either think it just cropped up when we both happened to be on the driveway. If we hadn't bumped into them I wouldn’t of gone round specially

I bought my childhood home from my mum then lived in it with my own family for 7 years. My dad had bought the house in 1979 and the same neighbours on one side had been there before he bought it and were there for years after we left. Didn’t tell them when I sold, just moved. In my defence, they were both pretty much housebound by the time I sold it so it’s not like I had any opportunity to tell them but it also never crossed
my my mind that I should.

The house in the other side was empty as the owners held onto it after moving abroad. I only told them because I had their number in case there were issues (semi detached so roof etc) and they would message occasionally asking for details of plumbers or trades if they were getting any work done, wanted them to know we weren't there anymore but it was literally a text after we moved saying ‘by the way, we have moved’

Our neighbours moved last summer and just told the WhatsApp group afterwards. We are rural, so there are a field or two between neighbours. They’d sold it privately.
We sold our house privately last year too. We didn’t tell neighbours either, and I’m quite glad we didn’t because it fell through after four months.

I sold my house before Xmas and didn’t even have a board up, neighbours all nosy bastards so none of their business 🤷‍♀️

First house we didn’t have a sign up, it went within a day of going on the market! We didn’t tell the neighbours, one worked nights so we never saw her, the other one was mental so I actively avoided her!
Second house we had a board and it took a fee weeks to sell so chatted with a number of neighbours who had seen the board over the course of that time - both houses either side went on the market within a week of us moving 🤣
Where we are now I would knock on and actively tell my neighbours, it’s only a 2 property development and they are elderly so it’s a big deal for them who is next door. Strongly suspect they will just sell up and not tell us however…

Why would they tell you ? Its absolutely none of your business .

We didn’t tell one of our neighbours because she was a weirdo and drama queen and I couldn’t be doing with her. She kicked off when she found out because we didn’t tell her but I was loading everything onto the lorry by then 🤣