More than 1m people have moved house after being burgled.
A survey of 2,000 victims of burglary was carried out by Churchill Home Insurance and Dr Claire Nee of the University of Portsmouth.
Nearly half said the worst aspect of being burgled was the knowledge that someone had been in their home.
Victims went on to suffer insomnia (25%), illness (8%) and loss of confidence (6%).
The report finds that 1.3m moved home as a result of being burgled, adding that the figure is based on extrapolating 13% of the 10m who were burgled in the UK in one year.
Aside from the fact that it is somewhat mystifying to suggest that more burglary victims moved house in a year than the total number of home-movers, there is an issue here.
Should a vendor moving home for this reason tell the agent?
And under consumer protection law, should the agent flag up the burglary to prospective purchasers?
Too vague as many people burgled could probably site other reasons for moving anyway. If this were to become law then the only way to implement would be to force sellers to declare if they had been burlged in last 3 or 5 years, in the same way the law requires declaration surrounding legal disputes with neighbours.
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“If this were to become law…”
Question there, Beano, being is it already Law to declare?
TPOs suggests you should notify ghosts and ghoullies in order to satisfy CPRs – so a masked stranger rummaging in your smalls drawer surely needs the tiniest of mentions…?
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No doubt PeeBee, if we are asked a question to which we are party to the answer then it is right both morally/professionally and yes legally to give the honest answer. My point is that the vendor shouldn’t have to mention negatives like this to anyone unless legally required. There is enough information out there on crime stats to satisfy those that cant tell a bad area from a good one.
If I am selling something privately -like a car- then I have to make a judgement as to how much information I feel I should reasonably give to the potential buyer in order not to put people off. A moral dilemma for some?
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This raises some questions:
“A survey of 2,000 victims of burglary…”
Burgled when? Within the last year? Two? Ten?
“The report finds that 1.3m moved home as a result of being burgled…”
Homeowners? Tenants? Did they get burgled again when they moved to their new home?
I’d hate to think the ‘report’ was littered with #burglejuggles
“…adding that the figure is based on extrapolating 13% of the 10m who were burgled in the UK in one year.”
Which year? Were the police on holiday? Isn’t that about 1 in 25 households?
I’m now glad I live in a street of only 24 properties.
That’ll do for starters…
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