robby

We're looking at moving soon and have seen an ieal house which we want to enquire about.
We phoned the estate agent up today and he's comming to do a valuation on ours this week.
Is there a website that if you enter the address you can find if there have been any burglaries/ problems/ etc as we don't want to move and then find out it's a high risk area

cheers

mart360

Nip into the local nick & enquire,

or should you be lucky enough, collar the local beat bobby, we did this on a

property we looked at once, he told us where the ok parts of the vicinity

were, and the cough not so good parts cough were


mart

PaulC72

try up my street .com

they have global rates for areas based on postcodes etc {or they used to}

Jamescsti

Drive round the area at different times of day, that's what i did with my house, around mid to late evening especially when you might get groups of kids/drunks around causing trouble

robby

The new house is around the corner from where we are now so the actual area we know isn't bad.
The house in at the end of a cul de sac so it's awkward to try to keep passing as it'll look suspicious
We did this with our current house before moving in 10 years ago and it seemed a quiet lane but it's now become a rat-run for bloody taxis
We're just sick of our neighbours where we are (and the rat-run) with them making a mess of their gardens/ house exteriors which then affects our property which is the main reason for moving - we just don't want to end up in a house which is a target for yobs, etc

PaulC72

talk to the neighbours that helps too.

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

best talking to the neighbours

we did that a few years ago, seemed ok, said the area was nice etc
that was the only time I spoke to him in 7 years!

jods

House Prices, Property, Crime - Local Neighbourhood on UpMyStreet

Type in the postcode and you get loads of info.

Typical info like this :

Local Neighbourhood Profile in NW1 - UpMyStreet

or this

Local Neighbourhood Profile in Adswood - UpMyStreet

robby

tried upmy street.com for our own and it says we're all comfortable, due to retire, have savings, etc - so not that accurate

we're seeing the agent tommorow for a valuation on ours and it's the same agency that's selling the other house so we're going to arrange a viewing for the weekend