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?

I know someone who interviewed him in prison. I also know someone who bought a house quite cheaply as a man had murdered his wife there and hidden her under the floorboards.

No. I think bad energy can linger. One of the houses in our neighbourhood has had three families own it since new, all of them experienced bad fortune. One of the houses in my parents neighbourhood is similar, tragedy seems to have followed previous owners. It's probably just superstition (I hope 🙈), but still, I wouldn't feel comfortable taking the chance.

It wouldn't bother me I dont think.

It wouldn't bother me, I'd say some prayers and maybe put up a little memorial for the deceased, I'm sure they wouldn't bother me.
It's demons you've got to worry about.

Agree. I would think about it too much.

Yes, I would. I don't really connect the two together. It's just a house. But I can understand others saying no.

Supposedly the house I grew up in used to be lived in by a headmaster and his wife. After he retired, his wife developed a form of dementia. One day, the ex headmaster strangled her and hanged himself. I expect that there wasn’t much respite care back in the 60s.

Someone I used to work with got a house cheap because it was a murderer's house! But the murder didn't happen in the house, and it was more of an insurance job type thing.

Yes if I really liked it.

Child murder no because it would just make me constantly think of all the bad things that could happen to my kids.

An adult murder I probably would tbh but resale value would be a concern of mine.

Absolutely not. I couldn’t settle in a place like that!

But that's the point. Given the facts opinions can change and often will.

I bought a house that was sold by the bank as a repo. I then discovered, from a new neighbour, that the Father, who had committed suicide after his wife's death 'from natural causes', had in fact strangled her (after exhumation). The sad thing was their teenage Dd who showed up in floods saying that we were living in her family home. I brought her in, gave her tea & biscuits and let her talk.
It was a lovely house but some of the neighbours were ghoulish & it was defo mentioned when we sold it 2 years later (drug problems with one neighbour).
I guess though, it was a 'sad' rather than 'bad' house. Funnily enough, current house (no issues I was aware of) turns out to be spooky so I'd like to leave.

Definitely not. Although as many houses in UK are centuries old, anything could have happened in the past in them.

I see the Chris Watts house in Colorado is for sale again, and no one is keen on buying it.

Don't blame them, either.

There’s one a couple of miles from me where someone was tortured and murdered a couple of years ago. It’s been for sale ever since. It’s a new build and the guy who was killed was renting it from new. The poor owner must be left with a house they can’t rent or sell.

Murder, probably not. I did want to buy a house where someone had committed s*de in (they hadn’t been found for days, so all carpets were taken out). DH loved it until the agent informed him of the reasons why it was bare floorboards and no amount of clary sage would convince him to put an offer in! Shame as it was such a beautiful house.

I think they would call it ‘mixed’ . There are a lot of Notting Hill type renovations, but also a great deal of social housing. It’s very near Grenfell Tower

Nope. Not knowingly.
But, people die at home all the time. So it’s specifically that it was a murder and me knowing that would be the deal breaker.

I visit someone (for work) a few doors up from a house where a serial killer buried bodies in the garden, always gives me the creeps when I have to walk past it.

Not sure how I’d feel about living in a house where people were murdered, even if the house was perfect for me because I’d still worry about selling it on in the future as the pool of potential buyers would shrink considerably.

We rented a lovely house. After we'd been there a few months, a neighbour told us there'd been a murder there. Honestly, there were no bad vibes at all. In fact, the house had a lovely cosy feel, and people always commented on the good vibe. It didn't change the way I felt about the house. We stayed there a few more years.

My guess is that there has been a death in most houses at some time. Some more greasly than others

There is a part of me that thinks if the house was on sale for a while and I was getting it cheaper then it's a great opportunity.

But in reality I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about what happened there .

I bought a house where a neighbour {old and gossipy} told me that there had been a suicide, and that the poor woman was undiscovered for a while..

I wanted to sell immediately!

However, this {suicide} was in the 1950's. {The neighbour had lived nearby since a child and was old herself}

However, the house never felt creepy -I said in the room where she was found ''Hello {Name}, I don't mind you being here if you don't mind us being here''...but I there wasn't anything creepy at all.

It was a same sex couple, according to the gossipy old neighbour, one of the couple had died naturally, and the other couldn't bear to be without her. 🙏

There’s a difference to murder though. I live in an old house and have researched the history. A baby and his toddler brother died 10 days apart in the mid 1850’s and I found the death certificate of someone else who died there in the 1890’s. Still wouldn’t want to knowingly live at a murder scene!

No. Places hold energy and I’m sensitive to it.