Anti social behaviour from neighbour and moving house

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We’ve lived a few doors up from the nastiest, shoutiest man for 30 years. He’s always been the same - we had a shock all those years ago when we heard him shouting expletives to his wife in the garden. He’s never changed, maybe a few times a week he’ll shout the ‘F’ word at his wife, or he’ll go on a nasty sounding expletive filled rant about something. He seems like he has an explosive temper so it’s usually a short lived blow up then all quiet until the next time. Generally this is only heard in the summer when windows / doors open, we don’t hear him otherwise.
Weve never formally complained, choosing to ignore him, some people must have complained over the years as there have been a few police visits warning him - there’s an element of DV too.
We are considering putting our house on the Market, do we need to tell the solicitor this? I don’t want any come backs from the new owners - it can be pretty shocking when you first hear him. We’ve had kids and brought them up here with no issues, it was the norm for them to hear him but I understand that if a family moved in they may not feel the same as we do.

No I wouldn’t say anything, you have no formal dispute with him and I can’t see what comeback new owners would legally be able to have in this situation.

Say nothing, keep it zipped. You say you never complained directly to him, therefore as far as anyone would be concerned, that man didn't bother you, so why would you need to tell prospective buyers. Only becomes an issue if you have complained and it has been recorded by the police, environmental health etc.
I don't like it , but nowadays l hear the F word being used so casually. I was stood at a supermarket queue, waiting for an eternity to get served, when a parent infront of me , started shouting at her son to stop climbing, but used the F word around 4 times..no filter, just the norm for her to speak to her child like that...she was the one with the anti social behaviour....l am not, butter wouldn't melt, l have used the F word when having a row with my husband, but never so my children could hear...Just a disregard in standards these days, not alot we can do about it...

I always wonder how anyone would find out about historic complaints. It's not publicly available information.

You are able to report an environmental disturbance eg noisy neighbours to your LA anonymously, so it doesn't become a neighbourhood dispute. They take it forward directly with the house occupant and you are never involved or implicated. Records are not made public.

It only turns into a neighbourhood dispute that would need to be reported to the estate agent you're selling through and through your solicitor if the dispute goes through the courts and legal process eg a boundary dispute or some damage the NDN has done to your property.

therefore you can legitimately state that you havent had a neighbour dispute when marketing your property. The sweaty neighbour could go away or die, hence that isn't a permanent situation even though it's gone on for 30 years, it could end tomorrow.

Thanks all, we’ve never even acknowledged it in all these years. We just know he’s a dickhead and to be honest we don’t want to make more trouble for his long suffering wife.