Sold every 2-4 years??

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How concerned would you be about a house that jas sold every 2-4 years since 2007?

Going for 2nd viewing today. It looks nice, well maintained, nice road, no obvious sources of noise, 4 bed, east london.

I'm worried that nobody seems to stick around for any period of time.

Hmmmmm??

Might be worth asking round the neighbours to see if it’s been rented out over the years? The house we are renting now is a 90s new build and has been sold every couple of years since it was built. It looks like a nice house on the face of it, but it hasn’t been maintained properly and is a nightmare to live in. Boiler is knackered, all the windows are draughty and need replacing, we’ve had multiple plumbing issues- landlords just don’t want to spend the money to fix it properly so just sell it on. Could it be something like that?

It’s worth exploring if there’s been any rejected planning applications for the property, perhaps someone bought it to convert into a HMO or separate units and got turned down so they sold it, that sort of thing.

Its a semi detached and Doris is not the attached neighbour.

The agent said that the current residents often pop in on her as shes elderly and lives alone.

Its only a 10 minute walk from where I currently live and the street/area is nice...very suburban, everyone takes care of their house.

If its been sold this may times in so short a time, I assume "something" would have come up on surveys so there is only one conclusion left.

GHOSTS!!!!!!!

Ha! Maybe not ghosts, but some places do have have an unexplained 'bad vibe'. I wonder if Doris could shed any light on things if you left her a note asking if she'd mind having a chat with you?

Tbh I would be very concerned and probably wouldn’t even go to view. The neighbour could be a massive issue. We were renting once and the old lady next door was a hoarder. It’s awful! we couldn’t open our windows because of the smell. It looked ok when we came to view just untidy but then became a real problem.
And there are lots of other possibilities: smoking, drugs, pets, strange habits, relatives....
I would at least go and have a good look around on Friday and Saturday evening, early in the morning, late on weekdays - basically at very different times.
It doesn’t sound like the problem with a house itself, otherwise it would be picked up by surveys rather about neighborhood: immediate and wider.

How strange, I'd definitely do some more snooping if you can OP.

I agree that nobody is ever really going to tell you why they're moving. We were 'looking for a bigger plot' i.e. the man next door was an absolute twat and played loud music in his garden as soon as there was a hint of sunshine, amongst his many, many other faults!

I was about to say haunted

Definitely a poltergeist.

Yes we were moving to sample village life. Translation: we’ve had enough of living next to the students next door and the dual carriageway near the A&E and police station.

I've lived in my current house for 7 years but prior to that I moved every 2-3 years, none of my moves were ever due to the house, mostly job and relationship related. Granted I was renting at the time but people move for all sorts of reasons, I would be cautious and try to do some digging but it wouldn't put me off

If it's anything I suspect it's a nuisance neighbour although it doesn't have to be someone next door for them to be a nuisance. What does the house back onto?

Or is there an unusual layout perhaps that people have struggled to adapt to?

Our house is 15 years old & is about to have its 4th owners (all being well). No idea about the first owners. They did 5 years. The family we bought of did 5 years, they moved locally & at the time we couldn’t figure out why. We were a couple with no children when we bought. Nice neighbours. Outstanding school catchment. But now, we are a family of 4. And we 100% realise why the previous couple left! Bedroom 3 is next to the lounge. Other 2 are upstairs. I have two very noise sensitive children. It just doesn’t work for us at all. They could share but again, noise sensitive. It’s taken 3 years for DD1 to sleep through, I don’t want DD2 disturbing her constantly waking for feeds & just being a normal, quite restless baby overnight. So on we move. The new family have two older kids & one is having the ground floor ‘4th’ bedroom & the younger the top floor 2nd. So that all works OK for them!

This is really wierd. Hope it's Doris and not ghosts.

Assuming old lady isn't total pain in the arse, is the house opposite or next to anything where the drive might be constantly parked on or across (like shop of school) or very nearby train station?

For any neighbours run a business from their home that might mean the car gets constantly blocked with client cars?

Is someone planning building works that will have an impact on neighbour properties?

It could also be a neighbour a ew doors down that is a total fucker (doesn't have to be directly next door to have an impact).

Could also be coincidence.

As you are local, maybe visit the street at a number of times of day and night?

First thing I thought was haunted. There's a house near us like this, often changing owners. The last time it was listed on rightmove I had a look and there were several crosses and horseshoes nailed to the exterior. Make of that what you will!

Could be the neighbours at the back that's a problem.
Doris wouldnt tell you anything negative about the house as she's friends with the vendors .

Our house has been sold every four years for the past twenty years, we have now been there for four years and haven’t uncovered any major issues (yet.....). On the flip side, if it had something really terrible wrong with it, people probably wouldn’t wait four years would they - that’s quite a long time to put up something unpleasant.

I agree with ghosts or a cold atmosphere.

I live next door to a "little old dear", retired teacher, church goer, apparently respectable.

She's a fucking nightmare - completely unhinged.

Are you sure Doris is as sweet as she looks?

I live next to an 'old dear'.

She's always complaining about something, hates my (normal volume) kids playing or even being in my garden.

Hates me having BBQs.
Hates my cat.
Hates my dog. (She has a barky dog)
Hates my plants/trees that dare to grow next to her fence.

I think when I moved in with my dh she thought we would be at her beck and call....and hates us because we pretty much just get on with our lives (as quietly as possible) and don't beg to become her housekeeper/gardener/driver.

Did it start off very small and outdated and has each person owning it bought it as a 'doer-upper' and done something and then sold it on, having added value? So any chance it started as a 2 or 3 bed with small downstairs? Has someone added a downstairs extension and moved on? The next ones added a lift extension and moved on etc etc? Just thinking Bout things which might explain why this has happened.

Is there any way to chat to neighbours etc and see where previous owners went....so did they move into radically different houses or wee they just trying to escape this one as something was wrong?

Other possibilities are its 4 bed but not really your typical 4 bed decent sized family home....so 2 or 3 of the bedrooms are really quite small? It only has 1 bathroom and no room anywhere to put another? It has been extended to make it 4 beds but the living space downstairs is really still only that of a 2 or 3 bed? It's been extended and the layout is very peculiar? Garden far too small for a family home?

All of these things could mean a larger family who needs more bedrooms takes it, but they don't stay long before moving onto the bigger 4 bed which has all the things you'd usually expect with a house that size. This could happen over and over.

Op are there any reasons you can see why you wouldn't stay for more than an few years or downsides of this house as a forever home?

Easy London has appreciated in value a lot over the past 10 years so it's people cashing in equity. Common in gentrifying areas.

East!