Selling house buying house- reported neighbour disputes

[CampsieGlamper]

When selling a house, one is required to detail any complaints/ issues with neighbours.

Has anyone bought or sold a house where this has been reported? If selling, with a reported incident, has it led to a dropped price?
If buying, have you offered less or walked?
Presumably the type of dispute has a bearing - neighbour abused me because I reported him for beating up his dog is different to neighbour demanded I gave her my car because she liked it and I told her to go forth.

I would walk away from a house with a neighbour dispute tbh regardless of what the issue was between them and the seller. I really don’t need the stress. I’ve moved twice due to noisy neighbours and it’s hell, so I wouldn’t chance moving next door to someone a seller has already had issues with.

I wouldn't want to be next door to someone who abused animals or someone who was so unhinged that they asked for your car. Both are red flags and no drop in price would encourage me to buy.

Bear in mind the amount of sellers who won’t mention neighbour disputes. The guidance is very unclear as to what counts. As a buyer I’d always assume this was the case.

I had to declare that there had been domestic disturbance next door and I called police. Partner was removed. Hadn't seen them since. Didn't affect price. I had a very desirable first time buyer property in a lovely area and it was a sellers market. If it had come up on the house we bought now I may have said no as we were moving to a more family area that was meant to be quiet.

I declared a dispute with a neighbour I reported to the council for parking on the pavement very close to my drive and obscuring view and that the council put up a bollard so dispute was resolved.

We bought a house where there was a period over the preceeding year where our seller was reporting the next door neighbour to the council for noise issues, it did make us pause but we'd met him and he seemed a nice bloke in his 70s, whereas frankly the seller seemed to live on another planet. We bought the house, we lived in it more than a decade, the noise she complained about was him playing the piano, which you can hear softly through the walls as it's a semi, especially in summer when both houses have the back doors open, but he's not once played outside the hours of 10am-6pm, and he plays very well. We lucked out though, it could have been much worse.

It depends on what the dispute is and whether it was resolved.

Noise is very subjective for example. One persons "appalling racket that stops me sleeping" is another persons "taking the bins out at 9pm as thats when I get home from work

I think that if the vendor seems ok, not overly neurotic (ya know, the sort that want you to promise before you buy to not change a thing....as did happen on MN once! Think they came round wanting to check irrc!) then I would take it seriously and not buy if it wasnt resolved. If they seem, as the vendor above, not someone you would want to live next door to, then I would look into what the dispute is about and see if I could arrange a viewing at the time that the so called problem happens and judge for myself.

Not a definite no, but I would proceed with extreme caution.