Would you buy on the edge of an estate?

[blinkineckmum]

Saw a house yesterday (Sat). It's on the corner of a nice road in a residential area of town. It is right next to the biggest housing estate of this area. It's on an enormous plot but there is a footpath which goes from the estate past the front door of the house. Sealed bids tomorrow! Any thoughts?

That's an impossible question to answer without a viewing etc.

I wouldn’t like to live beside a public footpath from a big housing estate. It depends on what sort of housing estate it is and how much foot traffic you expect to be passing the house.

As long as there isn't anywhere youths might want to hang out (such as a wall to sit on or an inviting street corner ) then you should be ok.
I love my house but the kids from the local estate have been really annoying over the last 2 summers. There are low front garden walls and there is a street corner outside my house so they hang there.

Good points. Thank you

I used to live next to a public footpath on an estate and yes teens would congregate next to street light/my wall.
Soon stopped when I would stand near them. On my side of wall. Just standing saying nothing but looking at them. Not in a scary way but like I'm waiting for them to tell me what they want way.
3 days in a row was all it took!

Reading between the lines, your new house is nice, in a nice residential area. Footpath goes to an "estate", which I'm assuming is less nice in some way?? Otherwise you wouldn't have asked.

So, depends what you think might be the problems?
Personally, I wouldn't like being beside any footpath. It could lead to all the million pound mansions, and I wouldn't like it if means foot traffic beside my house. Don't particularly like the cute cottages or terraced houses that open right on to a pavement either ..... houses could be gorgeous, in a lovely part of town, just don't like the pavement.

So, what's the potential problem? Lots of foot traffic? Folk hanging around? Folk being able to see in your windows / garden? No property is absolutely perfect, so depends what the issue is &how big an issue it is for you.

Why do people on here see estates as different to other houses?

Do you mean a ‘council’ estate or a naice estate?
Are you really worried that poor people might come past?

I don't have anything against estates. I live on one now. But this house is a lot bigger and more expensive thsn my current one, and any on the estate near it. I know many people would not live on an estate. The one I'm talking about has had some crime, vehicle damage, antisocial behaviour etc. So I was wondering if the risk some of that would put you off buying a more expensive house.

Depends how bad it was , if it's a sink estate then no chance.

I live on the outskirts of a huge council estate but the roads around the perimiter are all bought / private rental , its very peaceful and weve never had any trouble in 13 years the only problem is the schools not very good at all and seem to have given up

It totally depends on the estate. My home town has quite a large Private one and no one living next to the footpath that connects it to the town centre would ever think there would be a problem.

I feel I wouldn’t like an enclosed alleyway next to me but if it’s a path winding through grassed verges, I cannot see the problem. If the house is what you want, you have to factor in location when bidding. Everyone else will. The fact it’s bids would make me wonder if they are going for developers. It may also be because it’s hard to value - due to the estate?

We live in an area that has a pedestrian path that we love using. However I have noticed that people go to the shops and then throw their litter as they walk down the path. Sometimes this is in other people’s front gardens. After seeing this, I wouldn’t buy a house right next to a path if I could help it.

This isn’t a bad area or anything either, so I was surprised to see all the litter.

We were in this exact position a couple of weeks ago. It’s not opposite a Park is it?

We decided against it in the end as we kept driving past it for all the wrong reasons. Just to see what was going on at different times of the day. The first viewing someone was taking a wee up the garden fence down the walkway.

There was also a small green behind the house which had some of those silver things that show kids hang about and the owners have put those metal gates on the rear doors which didn’t fill us with confidence!

Shame, it was massive house with loads of original features and lots of potential. Just something didn’t sit right about the location.

There was also a new pedestrian crossing outside, the bleeping of which would have sent us slowly made.