To buy a house next to housing association properties?

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I need some advice/opinions please.

Soon to be divorced and left with some equity to buy a small house for me and 2 primary age DC.

One has come up on a new build development which is great on paper. Detached, 3 bed, garage, 2 parking spaces and west facing garden. It's in budget. I can't stretch to the next house type up. But the house types I'm looking at are next to housing association properties. The immediate neighbour is a disabled property then its 5 terraced houses of HA.

Would you buy it?

I can't investigate the area as it's not complete yet. The general neighbour hood is lovely (I live close by currently).

If there are only 6 houses I'd go for it.
Google the area for reassurance.

Yabu.

I live in a HA property in a new build estate. We don't want your type round here, bloody owner-occupiers lowering the tone. My street is lovely.

Oh I can see this going well.

What are you worried about, OP?

If you like the property go for it - HA properties actually tend to be quite strict on keeping property maintained and rules for tenants and if their are problem tenants easier to complain about/ get a resolution on

You could live next door to a private house that ends up being rented out or a HIMO and the tenants there not giving a shit - because it s a business to the landlord much harder/impossible to get rid of problem tenants

Go for it.

Friends and family keep putting me off with horror stories. Hence asking you guys for some honesty!

I'm going to be a single Mum with 2 kids soon so no judgement from me!!

I live in a new build with a block of HA flats next door. No issues, we get on well with the lady in the ground floor flat next to us. The rest keep themselves to themselves which is the same as all the non HA properties.

We are all not that bad, just ignore them.

It’s impossible to say without more info, I can think of multiple similar estates round here that are wonderful and I would love on. I also though know of a friend with a hellish experience when half the site was supported housing for those moving from homelessness who required drug and alcohol support services. Another estate became a nightmare for gangs because of a combination of poor access and neighbouring issues and another was on contaminated land which has issues with sale prices.
Investigate well.
-is there supported housing, if so what for? How many of the properties and would it dominate the community?
-is there could access at a few points or at least open land at the borders?
-why was the land not previously built on? Factories? What?

Definitely don't buy it. The housing association residents deserve better neighbours than you.

Er, yes. HA tenants are no different to anyone else.

I think you may get a few flaming posts. But I completely understand your concerns. I live in a new build development and do see the concerns others have living close to HA. However, I wouldn’t worry about a row of 5 terrace houses. All sorts of people live in HA. They are not all dossers on the dole. In general, parts of my estate where the HA is more dense, there is more rubbish and anti social behaviour. But, not so much in the areas with just a row of a few.
And of course you could buy in a street with no HA and still have awful neighbours!
House sounds lovely. Go for it

Plenty of crazy / noisy neighbours anywhere so unless you have a private estate with a three mile long road and a ring of land with no right of way you have to take pot luck on who your neighbours are. I bought a small house on a owner occupier new build estate and the neighbours were a nightmare! So nice when they move out and a lovely couple moved in instead.

Does this help? It's plot 16

It's farmland so no issues with contamination etc and we live in the development next door to this one.

We live on a new build estate, on a street that is about 50:50 HA and privately owned. I didn’t think anything of it when we bought, and it wasn’t something I would have thought to avoid. We haven’t had a good experience though, lots of noise disruption, constant smell of weed, really scruffy looking front gardens, and regularly see police cars and vans in the street.

I’m sure we’ve probably just been unlucky, and that those causing issues are in the minority, but I really would avoid buying a house near HA again. We’ve been struggling to sell our house and I think a lot of it is the street putting people off when they come to view.

I grew up on a council estate, and feel really irritated that I’ve worked really hard to try to get something better, saved up for a mortgage and basically feel like I’m back living on a council estate.

Are you bloody joking?
You’re seriously describing a 3 bed detached with a garage and double parking as “a small house”?
As for your comment about how you’re not judging because you’ll be a single mother... because being a single mother makes you somehow a “lower” person worthy of judgement?
And that’s before we even get to your pathetic snobbery of HA properties?

How the mighty have fallen 🙄

Honestly no I wouldn’t. We’ve got “affordable” housing opposite us and it’s not great.

Sorry, better picture.

Who made you such a snob? What sorts of people live in housing association do you suppose? Single parents like you, or people who simply don’t have the resources to save the huge deposits needed to buy.

Disgusting comment!

@YakkityYakYakYak that is what I'm fearful of!

I'd go for it. Neighbours are the luck of the drawer. It's nothing to do with money.

You'll get a few posts with people giving you stick, but I'd also worry about it. We were just looking at a similar estate with HA backed into the house we were looking at. We decide to against the house, but only because of the house, not the location. All new housing estates have to provide a % to HA so if you're looking at new houses you won't get away from this.

I appreciate I sound like an utter snob but these aren't my views. Views of others giving me their opinions.

Sorry, it is a small house to me as I'm leaving a 5 bed. But I'm so grateful to be able to get a home. I don't mean to sound judgemental, I'm just worried I'll make a wrong decision.

Very snobbish thread omg!