Would you buy a house which is overlooked?

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Viewed a property which ticks every box apart from the garden which is massively overlooked by one house at the side. Due to the angle at which the neighbour’s house has been built, I’m pretty sure they can see into the garden from their downstairs and upstairs windows. There is a 6ft fence up which is in excellent condition but the neighbouring house feels so close due to the small size of the garden. It doesn’t bother me so much as I don’t really go out in the garden but does bother my OH plus I worry about selling further down the line. This will be our long term family home but I guess you never know what happens and we may sell sooner than 15-20 years.

Part of the issue is we are very spoilt by our current garden which isn’t overlooked at all and is about 3 x the size. Do we accept this isn’t the house for us and move on? Or is this something to get over if the rest of the house suits our longer term needs? Thank you ☺️

@WhyCantPeopleBeNice
Our only solution is planting - in addition to hedge were adding evergreen trees

I'm looking into doing this myself and wondering what trees and size you've planted? Thank you

@Abracadabra12345 we have a mix of planting
First layer is the native hedgerow, this was laid a few years ago to make it thick at the bottom and is now about 2.5 metres. We'll likely let it get it to 3 then maintain it there
The rest is a combination of trees and shrubs including:
Scotch pines
Cordylines
Fatsia japonica
Trachycarpus fortunei
Arbutus unedo
There's 2 eucalyptus which I prune heavily for foliage but I wouldn't recommend those until you want lots of maintenance

There other thing we've done is plant strategically in the garden, I've french doors out a bedroom so there's a bed about 6 metres away with a couple of trees to prevent someone looking straight in, olive trees are fab for this as are tree ferns. The height doesn't need to elbe as tall here as around the boundary
Around other areas to obscure the view we've added trellis with evergreen climbers like armandii clematis and akebia quinata

Thankfully we've a tropical/jungle theme so it works.
If you're in a much smaller garden then I'd consider pleached trees so you don't loose space within

I would not buy it. It was something that put us off a house we once might have been interested in.

No. I like to sunbathe naked.

We did. We're actually overlooked at the front due to odd angle of neighbours house relative to ours. We can see directly into each other's living rooms.

If I'm honest, I didn't really worry about it too much. We wanted to be in a very specific area and we couldn't afford a property with big enough grounds that we wouldn't be overlooked. The UK is a densely populated, expensive place to live....