Would thus put you off?

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We've found a house that is very nearly perfect on a small close. The area in general doesn't have the best reputation in town, but its certainly not the worst area we could buy in.

However, out of the 40 houses on the close, 25 are social housing (Council owned).

Would this put you off?

Yes

Given location was and always will be my priority - I wouldn’t live anywhere with a “not the best reputation” and such a high ratio of social housing

it is not the politically correct view

but sod that when it comes to my and my children’s home

Yes.
And I say this as I have family members who live in social housing. One has had a terrible time, thankfully now relocated.

Honestly, yes.

How long were the previous owners there for?

Current owners bought it as a buy to let in 2019, and the owners previous to that bought it in 2004.

Definitely

It shouldn’t, it yes it would

Yeah, it would

How many tenants over that period?

Although irrelevant to my opinion

No. I would not. Even if it wasn’t social housing and only “not the best reputation”

There will be a reason why doesn’t have a great reputation. Have you got to the bottom of why?

Yes it would put me off I would not buy it.

By social housing, do you just mean council or housing association owned? That wouldn't concern me.

If there were refuges and halfway houses it would.

100 % yes

Yes, it would put me an off. I lived somewhere with a lot of council owned properties before and it only takes them moving in one really bad family for it to be a bit of a nightmare. I wouldn’t do it again unless I had to.

We used to live in a street with predominantly social housing tenants. It was fine for approximately ten years then the older people started to pass away and the council suddenly started using the properties for the crisis team so we got a lot of high turnover and people with addictions. It hugely changed the nature of the street so we sold up and moved away.

We had similar. Bought a new build and part of the estate was housing association.
About 6 months in the HA leased some of the houses to The Council for “problem” families, including using one as a safe house.
There were many incidents and a Police Officer who attended realised that he had played with DH as a child (unusual foreign name) and advised us to move.
We PX with a developer and managed to get just about what we paid for it.
Quite aside from anything else if you are wondering about buying the house other people will when you come to sell