{"id":807,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/the-biggest-thing-to-affect-your-quality-of-life-in-a-new-home\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:52:22","slug":"the-biggest-thing-to-affect-your-quality-of-life-in-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/the-biggest-thing-to-affect-your-quality-of-life-in-a-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Thing To Affect Your Quality Of Life In A New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- SEO Ultimate Plus (https:\/\/seoultimateplus.com) - Code Inserter module -->\n<script async>(function(s,u,m,o,j,v){j=u.createElement(m);v=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0];j.async=1;j.src=o;j.dataset.sumoSiteId='b68b392479b5981b8acf46565e9fe32a0734fc21a1f7c1e60121eaa6ca1a1c64';v.parentNode.insertBefore(j,v)})(window,document,'script','\/\/load.sumo.com\/');<\/script>\n<!-- \/SEO Ultimate Plus -->\n\n<div>What\u2019s the biggest thing that will affect your enjoyment of your new <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"homes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/housing-estate\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/housing_estate;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.01rtvp;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Housing_estate\" >home<\/a>?\u00a0The <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/kitchen\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/kitchen;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.0d4wf;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Kitchen\" >kitchen<\/a>? The garden? The location?\u00a0No \u2013 the answer is, \u2018your neighbours\u2019.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">Neighbourly disputes result in a staggering 360,000 families moving home each year.\u00a0Factors as varied as <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/redevelopment\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/redevelopment;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.04lcr1f;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Redevelopment\" >redevelopment<\/a>, aggression, fear and boundary arguments drive thousands of people to relocate every year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">So, if you are considering moving home, you should check out your potential neighbours first.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">Neighbourly disputes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">A recent high profile case saw Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi put their home on the <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Market (economics)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/market-economics\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/market_economics;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Market_(economics)\" >market<\/a> after an ongoing altercation with their neighbours.\u00a0However, the most <a class=\"wl-entity-page-link\" title=\"Common land\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-blog\/common-land\/\" data-id=\"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0502\/entity\/common_land;http:\/\/rdf.freebase.com\/ns\/m.013c51;http:\/\/dbpedia.org\/resource\/Common_land\" >common<\/a> complaint that people have about their neighbours is noise.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>The Independent<\/em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span> reports that \u2018the past 20 years have seen a soaring number of complaints about domestic noise to environmental health officers&#8230;and while much of this may be down to our increased awareness of our right to complain, the problem of nuisance noise is endemic \u2013 despite the threat of \u00a35,000 fines and prosecution for the worst offenders.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">Check out your neighbours before you move<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/compare-estate-agents\">leading estate agent<\/a>, Ed Mead, believes that buyers should try and check out their neighbours before committing to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\">property<\/a> purchase.\u00a0&#8220;The single biggest thing that&#8217;s going to affect your quality of life in a new home is the behaviour of your neighbours.\u00a0But it&#8217;s the one thing you&#8217;re utterly powerless over \u2013 so you have to ameliorate that problem to the biggest extent you can, while acknowledging that you&#8217;re not really going to have a proper idea of what they&#8217;re like until after you move in.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-size: 10pt;\">&#8220;As part of your strategy you should go and spend time there on a Saturday afternoon or a Friday evening, just walking around the area. But I know from experience that less that 5 per cent of people will actually bother doing that kind of thing.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]\n<h2>Find Property for Sale in London and the Surrounding Area:<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/barnet\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Barnet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/bexley\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span style=\"color: #f58350;\"><strong>Bexley<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehouseshop.com\/property-for-sale\/greater-london\/brent\"><span style=\"color: #1e3b5d;\">Property for Sale<\/span> <span 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The garden? The location?\u00a0No \u2013 the answer is, \u2018your neighbours\u2019. 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