Would you buy a house that somebody had been murdered in?

[lucy889]

Around 12 years ago, an awful murder involving a child and parent happened a few miles from our house, it was such a shock and the house has been empty ever since.

It's now on the market, I personally could never buy it or live there and I feel sad every time I drive by.

Would you buy it given the history if it was perfect for you?

Depends on the vibe when I viewed and whether it was a beautiful forever home or a flat I'd want to resell

I would consider buying it, but only to Airbnb it. I understand people not wanting to buy to live in it but I'll bet there's a huge market for people wanting the experience of staying a weekend in such a place.

I knew someone in the 1980s whose daughter was offered a council house. She and her family went to look and there was something splashed all over the walls in the living room and they thought it was paint. It was actually the blood of the young woman who lived there before who was battered to death by her husband.
I would have thought in a situation like that, the blood would have been cleaned away.

Mostly you don’t know the history of any property that is not a new build. And even then,what’s it been built on?
If you like the place, do it.

I think there is a huge difference in a house having had people dying it which is quite natural, to a house where a violent murder as occurred. Many houses have people that have died in them naturally, but to me would be a different kettle of fish where someone had been violently murdered..

Yes I would if everything else suited.

This. Vibes are more important than history. I was the first owner of a new build and the evil vibes are something I never want a repeat of. I tried researching the history of the plot but there was nothing but fields prior to the build.

Yes. I would make it a happy place again. I would research the people who were murdered and place a small plant/tree in the garden, make it a token of respect. I believe in good and bad vibes of a home. I just think as sad and somber as it seems, there's always a way to make it a home again.

Yes, but it would have to be dirt cheap, so cheap as it’s entirely likely you’d be unable to sell it later, especially if it was a murder which was very much in the media. I’m not at all “woo” or really superstitious though.

I live in a house well over a hundred years old. I expect that some unpleasant things have happened here. But I don't know what they are, so I can't be bothered by them.

The OP's question here is - would one buy a house in which one knew something horrible had happened?

Well, as obviously the building itself has no effect on me when I don't know what's happened, it should have no effect on me when I do know what's happened.

So if I don't buy the place, it's nothing to do with the house, which has no memory and no knowledge. It's to do with me. And I don't think I'd allow myself that sort of nonsense.

In short, yeah - I'd buy it.

I mean if the house needed scrubbing probably not.

Otherwise it wouldn't bother me.

@Wendolino a relative of mind died a violent death and wasn't found in their property for a few days. When I was eventually given the keys and went in I was really shocked to find that the clean up was down to me. I don't know what I expected and I am not sure I expected it to have been cleaned up by magic exactly but I didn't expect to be allowed in without any warning at all about what I would see let alone have to deal with. It therefore doesn't surprise me that no one had cleaned up in the house you mention.

Yes if I was planning to move and it fitted with my requirements. What has happened in the house in the past is irrelevant.

I'd have it blessed by my vicar, then yes.

That's awful, worse for you with it being a relative.
I would think they'd get in one of those deep cleaning firms to sort it out.
The person I knew didn't know the murder happened in that house until one of the neighbours told her after she moved in. Her husband had decorated before they moved in. As far as I know they were happy there, her mum never said otherwise.

I live in a house where the son murdered his mother… this happened around 20years ago.
im totallly fine with it, doesn’t bother me at all. Actually didn’t even know about it until after we moved in!!

Omg 😦

Yes. I'd get the sage sticks out

No I wouldn’t if I knew the history have watched too many horrors, The Enfield Haunting etc. it wouldn’t sit right with me deciding a paint colour in a room someone had been murdered in or kids playing in a garden where a body had been 😮 I bet many people have without even knowing even when an elderly person has died in a home I’d prefer not to know

No chance

What case was this? Was it in the news? Could you share what happened I’m very curious. How very sad. There’s a house along from me in Newcastle where a young man was suffering psychosis of some sort and returned from uni to love with his grandmother and dad whilst getting help. One day he decided the voices he heard telling him his grandmother (who I believe was in her 90s) and his dad were plotting to kill him, so he killed them both. I’ve heard he pretty much decapitated his grandmother and chopped his dad’s bits off.

the house has been up and down and up and down for sale for years. It’s now been bought a renovated, things added but not changed as such.. every time I drive past I get the creeps.

I remember when the house first went up for sale, the pictures inside listed on the estate agent site, were sooo eerie. No carpets in the living room and when reading the article about the murder they said the ‘grandmother was murdered whilst sitting on her chair in the front room by the fire’ the pics of the fire and no carpet just freaked me right out.

so I digress. But…

no. I couldn’t. lol

My aunt viewed a house for sale, GLC, house was 5k, 4 storey town house in hackney, man hanging from banisters, she offered 3k and bought it very cheap and recently sold it for 1.7m and retired to spain, it didnt bother her...another house in my road had a murder, wife was burnt alive by husband, new owners had no idea of its history until we chatted a few years ago...murder was appx 20 years ago so we all assumed they knew about it.

I get it op. Someone I knew quite well was murdered 19 years ago. I now live in the same street and a few doors up from the house she was murdered in.
The house is currently on the market. It was sold a few years after her murder and I often wonder if the people living in it know about the murder. I’m not sure I could live in a house someone was murdered in.

We lived in an army quarter in York that had an uncomfortable feeling. Turns out it had been lived in by James Blount's family when he was a child. Do crimes against music count?

We are selling a property where a man was stabbed to death. It went under offer quite quickly.
We also sold a house where the owner had sadly killed herself in the bath.
We had a legal obligation to advise all viewers before they viewed that one was a murder and one was a suicide as it was the first sale since the events had occurred. A lot of people chose not to view.