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?

Your husband is an eejit, solicitor would never look for social housing, even if you asked, might not have even if you had asked.

That said, I would hate to live near the peasants as well.

Think about it logically - why should the fact a property is social housing be an issue in of itself, legally I mean, rather than stereotypically? The issue here is that you have anti social neighbours, and there's no legal basis to link that to social housing as it can happen in any sector. If there were reports of anti social behaviour made by the vendor that they concealed from you, you may have something to go on.

It’s your job to scope out the area before you buy. Why on earth would your solicitor know or care about your neighbours

Quite!

The snobbery about social housing among some on here is breathtaking.

I visited MIL yesterday, in her council house. She has the most beautiful garden in the whole very quiet and respectable road, and the only time there has been any trouble in the street in the entire 60-odd years she has lived there was when the couple across the road murdered someone.

They were owner occupiers!

Your husband absolutely should have marched down to the solicitor to give them a piece of his mind. But only because the solicitor would have had a bloody good laugh at what a pompous fucking moron you’re married to.

Btw the issue you have is with a nuisance neighbour, not social housing.

Ridiculous reaction.

Just to be clear. Were you assuming your solicitor would check on housing rented from the local authority or a housing association, or was it all rented housing? Why would you and your husband distinguish between the two?

I’ve just realised that I should have declared my interest. I was for many years on the board of a housing association for the elderly. Perhaps though they might be classed as respectable neighbours by the OP.

Not really - the OP is getting torn to shreds (rightly)

Why the hell would a solicitor "identify nearby social housing" and inform you - your husband is ridiculous. Someone should probably go "warn" your nearby neighbours in social housing about your husband 😂

You expected your conveyancer to do a check (what sort of check?) for "proximate potential chavishness and poor people"??? V. v. unreasonable.

“Hello my client is a cunt, do you own your house?”

How on earth would the solicitor know? It’s not like there is a register they can check!

if there are issues with residents who are in Housing Association places then speak to the HA

But you can also have awful families living in own owned houses. What would you expect your solicitor to do about that?

When engaging a solicitor for house purchase always remember to tick the "I am a snob" and "no scum within 500 metres" boxes.

I pity the 'poor' souls in the social housing who've had no say in having a new build estate built next to them ( altho' the requisite Co-Op/mini-morrisons in the middle of this estate may come in handy). And having seemingly judgy, snobby neighbours, who to want to go marching

We may appear that way on the outside, but...

Sorry, I wasn't laughing at your PiL, just the way you dropped the killer line.
Excellent!

I don't think I've ever seen such a blatantly classist thread on this site. Why on earth would they have identified this?!