LIVE24SEVEN // Property & Interiors
None of this extensive accommodation is home to anything that might go faintly bump in the night. But with tales of headless riders and Black Abbots ringing in my ears, I got to speculating about this whole haunted village / house thing, and how it might affect the sale of property. So I asked Craig Fuller of Stacks Property Search, who knows everything about everything when it comes to buying houses, what his views were. How, as a buyer, would you know whether you were buying a property full of ghouls and ghosts?
He said, “Some properties are unashamedly haunted, and a purchaser will almost certainly hear stories and rumours from the estate agent, from locals, or from the vendors themselves. But if a buyer is coming from out of the area, buying remotely and without spending time locally, it’s possible that legend and hearsay will pass them by.”
So should an estate agent or vendor declare any ghosts they know of? Craig informs me that, “Vendors are required by the NAEA to declare ‘anything that has occurred at the property that would affect the transactional decision of
the average buyer’. This has led to suicides and murders being declared – occurrences that most would agree may affect a buyer’s decision. But it’s questionable whether ghosts fall into the same category. They certainly aren’t ‘material’, and some agents may feel that if they did disclose a ghost, they might be ridiculed. So the jury is out when it comes to spectral disclosure. We did once have a buyer who consulted a medium in the search and buying process.
“Sometimes a resident ghost is a selling point. Especially when it’s associated with a stunning period property with attached history. A ghost is almost an expected part of such a package.
“On a serious note, it’s not uncommon for there to be disagreement between family members when buying property. Sometimes, as buying agents, we will try and resolve these differences. But when somebody has a bad feeling, or a strong adverse reaction of any sort to a house, our advice would be to reject the property. Whether that bad feeling comes from a sense of previous lives lived, or a full-blown haunting, and whatever your beliefs are, there’s little point in talking someone out of a feeling that they can’t explain.”
The freehold of Idsall House is on the market through Kingsley Evans for £2m.
Kingsley Evans, 01242 222292;
www.kingsleyevans.co.uk Stacks Property Search, 01594 842880;
www.stacks.co.uk
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