Should our Solicitors have identified social housing as part of moving checks

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We’ve recently moved but our excitement has been dampened by one of our new neighbours ‘warning’ us of a family in a nearby house who are causing an ongoing nuisance for other residents.

If we had known we’d be in such close proximity to social housing then we wouldn’t have moved to this house.

I’m not interested in a debate about social housing but DH believes our Solicitors should have identified this and informed us accordingly - so he thinks we have cause to complain.

Has anyone had a similar situation or knowledge of if our Solicitors dropped the ball here?

Sidebar but how is that possible? You can look at a block of flats and see all this?

Why on earth would a solicitor flag that it is near social housing? It's your own bias that makes that a problem. The fact that there is a neighbour causing people issues is not related to the fact there is social housing - you get assholes anywhere.

We don't live next door to social housing, but we have one side that plays stupid music stupidly loud when her husband is out at work (we work from home, hear it all day) and the other side smoke a hell of a lot of very smelly weed. Neither of them of social housing tenants, both have a mortgage like us.

He sounds reasonable to deal with..

My first house was an Edwardian Terraced property in Bristol.

Funnily enough it had been a Council House in the past and there were a few 'pepper potted' around the area but you would never have known

It’s down to your own lack of knowledge, not the solicitors, they are their conveyances the property not the area.

As part of a government scheme which came into affect around 2023 , 10% of new builds must be given to social housing, I'm
not sure how this has bypassed you and your dh as it’s been highly publicised.

So you expect your solicitor to do this for you?

How would they know!!!

My stepson often moans because he rents a nice 4 bed detached Newbuild, near social housing

Deliberately Goady … however .. you can have shitty neighbours in any sort of property.

Sorry, I was being sarcastic

lol, God forbid you’ll be living near poor people!

You should have asked specifically.

No, it’s me Joy, I was quoting the OP not yourself, apologies.

So were they watching one house/flat in the SH section, or all SH residents?

Unless a noise complaint (or other nuisance complaint) was lodged with the Council about these neighbours by the previous owner of your property, there would be no record that your Solicitor could have referenced.
Of course, that’s exactly why people often don’t report antisocial behaviour -especially if they are considering moving away anyway - as it could blight their property.
However, you have no way of knowing whether the previous owners were bothered by them, or not, nor whether the neighbour that told you had any malicious intent towards them, so it’s better to draw your own conclusions once you have met them, and try not to be drawn into any dispute by way of your other new neighbour’s judgement!
I have a sibling who, wherever they move to (and they have moved a number of times after falling out with their neighbours) immediately seem to start disputes which turn nasty. In 11 house moves (but really observed by the 3rd) I concluded that the problem wasn’t with their neighbours, but with them!
In contrast, we try to be welcoming and kind, to all new neighbours, and as a result, have no neighbourly disputes with anyone! So keep an open mind, and be kind!

A solicitor has no way of knowing what kind a people a buyer will find undesirable. So, YABU.

Unfortunately social housing isn't confined to dedicated estates these days, it is a deliberate policy to mix social housing amongst normal housing. The theory was that by diluting the social housing and forcing those tenants to mix with normal people, it would reduce the antisocial behaviour, drug abuse and general petty crime that people associate with social housing. Sadly - and predictably - the opposite has happened, social housing drags an area down. There's nothing you can do as a homeowner, solicitors don't check for this sort of thing. Short of knocking on every door demanding to know whether the occupier owns, rents privately or rents social housing, it's pot luck when moving.

I've just mentioned this to a colleague - apparently some buildings/contents insurance policies ask about this too, so there must be a way of finding out.

I wish the housing association had warned us about the dickhead home owner that deals from his flat.

Fucking hell, I bet you said all of that with a straight face as well.

I hope it's not my new build estate, and I hope you don't decide to move here, because us dregs of society in our terrible social housing are clearly too rough for people like you.

When in reality we're a professional couple who are excellent neighbours, and the only issues anyone's ever had on this estate is the home owner on the end. Nasty, aggressive man with a loud sex-pond L, three feral children and a yappy French Bulldog.

forcing those tenants to mix with normal people
Normal people? Jesus wept

I assume it was the house opposite, side on to us so you could see all angles, who were obviously dodgy as fuck, screaming and shouting in the street and having random cars turn up at all hours. It was obviously something to do with drugs from the people who would turn up.

You sound like a pair of snobs. A house is a house.

Hilarious that your DH thinks your solicitor should have checked that you won't be living near any poor people.😂

So how would the solicitor know?