If no one is living next door for years, is it safe to buy this semi-detached house?

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As mentioned in subject above, we found a semi-detached house, seems the location, price, the condition inside the house is okay and the house size is quite suitable to us.

However, when we visited the house last week, it seems the house next door is not maintained for years. No one is living there apparently for quite a long time.
Is it safe to buy this semi-detached house?
Just thinking if anything goes wrong next door, say water leakages, insects etc etc....

Can you please advise me whether I should find another house instead? or it is totally safe to live there?

Thanks all.

Iwanttenofthose

thank you so much for sharing your experience with me.
this really helps.
after talking to you all,
I am quite sure I won't go ahead and will find another house instead.

and I am glad to hear that now you move out from that house too.

The up side is no noisy or rude neighbours, though? In theory you don’t need to worry about your own noise level as it will be like you are detached in a way?

Vimto1991
haha... I believe we are not really noisy..
but maybe... my younger DD likes to play piano. she practises everyday.

My advice is avoid. We had a similar experience as Iwanttenofthose, not with a house, but in a ground floor flat. The 1-bed flat above one that had been abandoned by its previous tenant when we moved in and at first it was bliss - peace and quiet! Then water started pouring into our communal hallway and we had to track down the owner, who immediately flogged it to a dodgy developer who turned it into a 3-bed and filled it with students and it was a bloody nightmare. We sold up and moved in the end. So I'd be very, very wary, OP.

We saw a lovely house and it was a bargain because next door was a builders yard of mess.

DH refused to even look at it. A few months later both were sold and the empty house was revamped and resold at twice the price. The house we were going to buy also rocketed in value.

I would wonder round the neighbors and ask questions or speak to the council.

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Did you make any decision ?