When moving or buying a new house in new place. Anyway to check out your neighbours?

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Its a serious question, came up bad in my last move to here, wont go into it, but the neighbours make my life a misery :( Its not a bad area, different stuff, not the usual chav noise, violence or otherwise ... just fruitcakes left and right, one that lodged a hate campaighn against me since I refused her lonely invites of cups of tea's each day and drivel chat ... lonely I think, very sad.

Looking at RightMove the popular property web site, and others, there is no way to filter out nuisance neighbours ... there should be IMHO.

Its not a massive problem i admit, most folk can get on, but its just that I've been a bit unlucky with fruitcake neighbours and at my age now of 64 only want to do one last move before I retire for good and enjoy my golden years.

Short of touring a prospective new place to move, you cant exactly go knocking at neighbours doors and say, see that house over there? I'm considering buying it, are the immediate neghbours going to be OK in your experience? No that couldnt possibly work.

Its just a gamble I guess?
 
The local council might have a record of anything reported to them, maybe. IIRC, there’s a certain responsibility on the seller to mention significant shenanigans.

Edit: all the major stuff on my street happened after I moved in - there’s bin a mudder.

Edit2: it wasn’t a particularly “nice” area to begin with.
 
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If you have had a dispute with a neighbor it will come up when the survey is done I think. Most people will avoid an official dispute as it can make resale harder so they will hide it. If you ask the owners about the neighbors each side, then if your serious about the place knock each side and have a quick chat, it will be obvious if they are nuts. In fact it'll be fairly obvious by the state of the house what sort of people they are.
 
rhobbyh said:
I've never done it but if you just knocked on the door of perspective neighbours and said your thinking of buying the house next to them, do they like the area etc, you should be able to root out the weirdo's. Well as best you can in a 2 minute convo.
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Id be tempted also, go two doors down either side, or however it works for the property so you can talk to your neighbours neighbour. They'll probably be quite honest, I would.
 
there used to be a website i'd use to check out stuff about an area. it'd give you stats such as unemployment rate, type of jobs held by people in the area, crime rate, typical householder descriptions i.e. single people in their 30's. i forget the name and i'm not sure if it still exists but might be worth googling for OP. other than that, scope out the area. litter, gardens that are tips may say a lot about the persons living there.
 
tyke_ said:
there used to be a website i'd use to check out stuff about an area. it'd give you stats such as unemployment rate, type of jobs held by people in the area, crime rate, typical householder descriptions i.e. single people in their 30's. i forget the name and i'm not sure if it still exists but might be worth googling for OP. other than that, scope out the area. litter, gardens that are tips may say a lot about the persons living there.
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Might have been upmystreet perhaps. I've used that in the past.

I was going to suggest staking out the area at various times but other suggestions about knocking on your neighbours neighbour is a good idea. All things I need to consider when I move soon :)
Where I am currently is ok. My neighbour plays her music too loud every Friday but she's not been around lately. It's mainly been the other flats near by that have caused the most noise disturbances. I did have someone arrested on my doorstop last year though. Wondered what all the commotion was with people going past the window then saw undercover cop car lol
 
We have amazing neighbours and its something that plays on my mind a bit when it comes to moving. Fundamentally unless they have gone through any official complaints procedures you can really have much of an idea. Plenty of people seem really nice until they decide they don't like you as well. You can try and meet the neighbours but thats a very cursory check.
 
potatolord said:
When seriously considering buying a house I have always been there multiple times. Daytime and evening, weekday and weekend.

You could try knocking the neighbours and saying "I'm looking at next door, what's the traffic/ parking like around here?" or similar.

Aside from that, you have no real way to test them out.
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Same, especially visiting on a Friday/Saturday night. I knocked on the neighbours door and asked them about it.
You can't fully know, and it's less important in a detached, and of course someone new can move in the next week anyway.
 
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yes as said, calling at as many different times as possible, has it a chaved up corsa outside, an old fridge in the garden, a big trampoline ect ?
I have been there in Yorkshire and had scum either side, one side was a rental so different scum variety's over the years
 
Ask to move in for a week or so. Go undercover and tell the neighbours you are a distant relative.

Or have a chat with a neighbours, whatever suits your style
 
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