New build on a new estate and social housing. I expect I’ll get torn to shreds but can I have your experiences please?

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We are looking at buying the last house on a street that backs on to an area of the new estate that will be 50 plus houses owned by a housing association.
The house will be a real bargain, they are throwing all sorts of incentives in as I’m sure they want it sold asap as it will be ready in about 6 weeks time.
The sales advisor explained that the tenants will all be working and they won’t be misbehaving as they will lose their tenancy if they do.
DH thinks it will be fine and we should take a chance but I’m really not sure. Had anyone bought next to AH on a new build estate?

I lived in social housing for many years and we were all quiet, hard working and decent. But you don't have to be because any eviction was virtually impossible.

With my awful ex neighbours, one rented privately and one owned. Both were equally awful but I was the one caught out.

I was very careful where I bought next. I think you also have to consider who would buy your property from you?

Well done for laying on the patronisation

I'm a council tenant & looking to buy a home, I've owned on the estate I live on before I got divorced & ironically the house I'm interested in buying backs on to the estate I live on now, while it's not a new build it's only about 20 years old, a development of about 50 2 & 3 bed houses. I've never had a problem on this estate in 25 years, after I divorced I lived on a different estate a mile away which was bedlam & only stayed 2 years before exchanging to where I live now, while it's not perfect, most of the people are fine, I live next door to someone who deals drugs but he is always polite, respectful & has helped me when I was struggling with shopping bags & when I had a fall, I'd rather live next door to him than what I had on the other estate, he was also was very good when ds ran off after a meltdown, he brought him home & spoke to him about how it wasn't safe for him to be wandering around after dark & that he could understand him being upset but running away wasn't the answer. Social housing doesn't always mean problem people.

Don't do it. As an ex police officer, I can tell you that you'll have some decent neighbours, but you'll also have a lot of disorder. They won't all have jobs, and when people don't work they stay up all hours, drinking, playing music loud etc. Get a smaller house in a decent street.

You’re asking on here because your gut is telling you “don’t do it!”

There’s incentives for a reason.

Speaking from experience of visiting a friend who bought privately backing onto social housing … If you like looking out at old washing machines and junk in gardens, the sweet aroma of weed, England flags flying from bedroom windows, barking dogs and noisy BBQ’ s, go ahead.