Our homes were bargains because of our VERY unusual view – it scares the kids but we LOVE it… we saved £40k
COCKNEYS whose homes overlook an eerie graveyard say they couldn’t be happier – despite what spooked-out buyers may think.
Properties surrounding East Ham Jewish Cemetery, East London, are around 9.1 percent below the area’s average.
And the 38,000 graves have done little to deter Connie King who told The Sun the burial ground is the THIRD she’s lived next to.
The resident of 25 years said: “I mean it’s dead quiet!
“I viewed this in the night and I thought, I like the house, I’m gonna buy it.
“And when I actually moved in, I thought, what the hell, oh, my God. And my daughter was like, Oh, this is great. Imagine Halloween!
“When you look at it, you think it’s not gonna be great, but once you live here you get used to it.”
The 57-year-old admits the only drawback is the lack of greenery – a Jewish tradition – so in summer and when it snows, it is just a vast white expanse.
But there is one benefit she says, adding: “I’ve always said to my family with the cost of the economy going up and up and up when I drop dead, just sling me over the back.”
Terraced houses in East Ham sold for an average £457,913 last year but roads around the cemetery went for £414,667.
Steven Lammas has lived next to the burial site for 30 years and said it is now full up and no more funerals take place.
He likes not having nosy neighbours peering in the back of his house, a stones throw from West Ham’s now-demolished Upton Park.
The 56-year-old added: “Some people are suspicious but I can’t see the problem with it personally.
“It is quiet and I ain’t got no neighbours, and what neighbours I have got are dead! So it don’t matter.
“I look out the window, it don’t bother me. I think I’m going to be in there sooner or later.”
Well-being therapist Sarah Anderson moved into her home in 2011.
She said she hadn’t noticed a change in house prices.
But she added: “The estate agent stood in the window when we got the place.
“It’s peaceful, you don’t get kids throwing stuff over the fence like you would if you backed onto a park.”
But a mum-of-two was not so keen on living next to over 38,000 dead people.
She told The Sun: “We have frosted windows, it’s a bit weird I find.
“The kids say they’re scared of the graveyard, I’m not too bothered but it wouldn’t be the first place I’d live.”