Selling a house with noisy neighbours

[NoiseDrama]

We are about to put our house on the market in the next few weeks. It’s a mid terrace and one side are very noisy. Not having raves and loud music noisy, just screaming kids running about all day, doors slamming, parents are quite shouty etc. The kids are not in school yet and there is no pattern to when they are in or not as she is SAHM, so it’s not like I can say we are only available for viewings at xyz time.

anyone have any experience of selling with noisy neighbours? I feel like anyone coming round and hearing that is not going to be interested, and it’s starting to stress me out.

If there's no quiet period then you cant manipulate viewing times.

Most buyers ask about neighbours so have an answer prepared too.

It would be unfair of you to deceive the potential buyers about your neighbours noise. They have right to know if they are thinking of buying the house. Some buyers won’t care but others would.
If you were buying the house OP, how would you feel if you were deceived?

All is fair in love and house sales.

Its a case of buyer beware. The only legal bit is declaring if ever made any complaints re noise but if nothing formal then OP is in the clear.

This. How will @NoiseDrama sell their house if they say more than they have to about their noisy neighbours?

@NoiseDrama it’s tricky if the kids aren’t at school yet, would be easier if you left it a couple of years until they were. If you have to move now, there’s not a lot you can do to manage the situation. Just have to hope for the best I guess. Do either of the adults work? If so you may be able to organise viewings at quieter times when one adult is out of the house at least.

@Twiglets1 Tell me you didn't read the OP, without telling me you didn't read the OP 🤣

Can you talk to your neighbour?

Yeah I already edited it before your response. It’s early! 😂

Nope, nothing formal ever raised.

We can’t leave it a few years unfortunately, we need to relocate and we really don’t want to rent it out and become landlords. We also need the sale of the house to fund the next house

No, we don’t get along. Nothing serious that has been raised formally, but we are very much at the ignore each other stage if we happen to see each other. I can’t go and knock and say “please be quiet from 5pm as we have a viewing”.

the noise is also unfortunately normal family noise in terms of kids being kids etc. they don’t need to slam their doors though 😖 not sure any of them know how to operate a handle. It’s just the build of the house that lets the sound travel. Other side is a single guy who is quiet and we rarely hear anything from.

We had a similar situation at a house we were selling and I'd say just go ahead as if it's all fine and just hope for the best. When it's your own house, you are tuned into noises from next door and are very aware of it but other people might be less so and they will be concentrating on looking round the house. It's probably easier if you don't show the people round yourself, because it's tempting to say something if there is a noise. It might be a noisy family that buy your place and they will be only too pleased to hear there's a family next door. Just hope for the best and good luck.

We're about to go through the same and we're only moving to get away from the neighbours. I'm just being realistic and hoping that viewings are at a lucky time. We've not made any formal complaints just to avoid having them come up on searches.

I’m hoping it’s someone who plays the trombone or something that buys it 😂

im planning on letting the EA run any viewings, so as you say will just hope for the best

Good luck! Fingers crossed for you that your viewings fall at quiet times

Just to add balance we are a noisy family who have been doing a lot of viewings as we've just bought a house and we were really hoping for there to be another noisy family next door, especially with kids who might want to play with ours, so not everyone will see it as a bad thing. As it happens our new neighbours have small but loud barky dogs instead and my kids couldn't be more delighted 😁 I love them as they make us seem less loud

Thanks for this, makes feel like there is hope!

I live in a terrace with neighbours like you've described and it doesn't bother me at all, I expect if I live in a terrace house I run the risk of hearing people living their lives. Hopefully you have buyers who are similarly unbothered.

Yeah don’t worry, you are not deceiving anyone, you are just moving for your own reasons, as has been said others may be completely fine there with those neighbours, just let the viewings happen. We looked at a house next to a REALLY loud nursery, not for us, but it’s long since sold, it’s only round the corner from what we ended up buying so the i know the new owners are still there 4 years later, there’s something out there for everyone, good luck, hope you find somewhere you love.