Jst realised house we are buying is attached to student rental

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So we’ve had an offer accepted on a 1930s semi detached house which we will do some work to, but has great potential . It’s on a beautiful quiet road in a lovely part of Kingston (we’re moving from nearby so we know it well). However I’ve just googled the house we’re attached to and it’s a student house! Saw it advertised as one, seems like it has been one for a while and it’s advertised as a 3 bed although a 4th person can go in the study which is tiny… it’s a pretty small house with little communal space, they’ve put an extra room in the living room downstairs. But I’m already anxious about the prospect of noise and the uncertainly of tenants changing every year. Stupid me for not checking earlier..
We’re trying to sell our house which is a Victorian cottage attached to a rental that sometimes goes to students and so far that’s been great! But I hate the uncertainty. Especially as the staircases in the new house are not adjoining so we share a lot of common walls!
Would this put you off? Does anyone have experience living attached to a student rental?

Yeh, I wouldn't want to live there

It would put me right off.

Yes we did, and i wouldnt again. Unless its a really small property, so not many students it would put me off! We lived next door to a 5-bed student property next door...some years fine but one year it was frickin awful...parties, late nights, music starting up at 10/11pm while they get ready to go out (just as we were going to bed) at midnight or whenever so you can hear bass through the walls, people knocking on the door all hours and shouting in the street (as they never took their effingg keys) smoking weed and doing balloons, swearing listening to shite music in the garden etc...they basically kept opposite hours to us and thin walls meant we heard everything.

I00% no I wouldn’t, we were awful for parties, thank goodness we had more students next door!

Yeah you don't want that. It's not just the noise but they leave a load of shit behind as well when they move out. (And when they're there ...)

Should that have been declared from owners of your house? Sounds like an HMO.

Absolutely, definitely, no way.

One of my student houses was actually pretty tame but I recall 3 seperate bedrooms all playing music far too loud, screeching over video games and the odd very late party. Thats a quiet house!
The other one was a party house. God I felt for the neighbours.
We lived next door to some students in a flat in London later on in life but they were quiet as mice, certainly quieter than the naice middle class family with their feral screaming children, but I think that's an anomaly (and I think they were postgrads)

So NO!

I would never buy that. Pull out now. It could be horrendous.

We live opposite a student house with about 5 bedrooms rented. Some years has been fine and others awful. One year especially we had to call police, all night parties on the front lawn, shouting and fighting in the street in the street, rubbish and constant mess and noise. We are moving soon but I'm already wondering they the next group of students are due any day now and praying they're decent!
Personally I would step away from this house

We have moved next to an elderly woman and her adult child. They are super quiet and want everyone else to be too. I have learned a lesson that noise is not necessarily bad. They watched our every move and for the 1 st 6 months complained constantly about our lights, cars noise, dogs barking occasionally etc. until we told them to leave us alone. We are not particularly noisy either, now I love the noise in the street from the new families who have moved in, I wouldn't worry about the students x

Pull out. When a nextdoor neighbour sells up, there's always a worry of what the new neighbours will be like. I can't imagine having that stress and worry every year.

I've lived in a variety of houses (victorian, new build, 1970s etc), but the1930s semi is where I heard my neighbours the most. We were both quiet, had similar schedules and got on really well, so while it was annoying sometimes, it wasn't a major quality of life issue. But based on that, (and also, based on living in a student house several years ago!) there's no way I'd buy a 1930s semi next to students. 100% no.

I dropped my DD back to Uni yesterday and her house is on a lovely residential road in Bath. I feel dreadfully sorry for the neighbours as it is a 7 bedroomed house - I would not even entertain the idea of it TBH.

Not a chance.

No no no, much as I like students I couldn't.

We live near lots of students and although we occasionally have a noisy lot it isn't very often. Most years they are all pretty considerate.

I’ve lived attached to a student rental, with rowdy students and a disinterested landlord. Never again.

Having been a student living next to a student house….run! My student house wasn’t a typical student house in that we were reasonably, we didn’t throw parties, we were all healthcare students so had placements at different times so were considerate of each other. The house next door on the other hand were an absolute nightmare…parties, lates nights, etc it was awful!

Ds1 said he felt a bit sorry for the people who bought the house next door to his student rental house. He actively tried to engage with them and have a good relationship because he respected they had a young family. It didn't stop them having gatherings, parties etc because that was part of their uni experience. Therefore I would suggest you pull out now. If you bought and then found out it was a nightmare, you might struggle to sell.

I wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole, I work in HE and get all the security reports and complaints about our students. I wouldn’t live within a 20 mile radius of our campus. Not a chance in hell.

No way would I buy this

As a landlord who specialises in finding families as tenants I refuse to buy in certain parts of our Uni city.
Just pull out and leave it to a HMO landlord to buy.

It depends what sort of lifestyle you have and whether you have kids.

I can imagine lots of parties and loud music but I can also imagine what a great investment this property would be considering you’d likely be able to turn it into student accommodation in the future.

I would not buy that .

I’d pull out. It’s too unpredictable no guarantee of what things will be like year after year. If it’s a student rental, the landlord is unlikely to evict any troublemakers because then the property will probably be empty for the rest of the academic year which is expensive.

It could be fine. We bought a house for DS and friends to use at uni and they were very well behaved and not rowdy. DS has rented it out now to a professional couple so even if it is a student house it might not be for long. But there could be the other end, I suppose. If you have bad feelings about any house I wouldn't do it.