When viewing a property for the first time, you might be focusing your attention on the interiors and looking for any glaring issues that could cost you down the line.

But as soon as you enter, you might want to focus your attention on the front door itself as one flat number is associated with a specific ‘curse.’

Have you ever lived in flat number one? If so, you might have had more visitors than you anticipated, accommodating various deliveries and lost Deliveroo drivers. Who needs a concierge when you could just press the first buzzer?

Since buying a flat after years of renting, this has been the experience of one disgruntled Redditor – who would have thought twice had they known the perils.

‘When you live in flat one of a block you effectively become the concierge,‘ yojimbo_beta penned in the r/HousingUK thread.

‘Any time a postman, Amazon driver, Deliveroo courier, canvasser etc can’t get hold of flat two, they will see your flat one doorbell and smash that button like you’re their personal helper.

‘It never occurs to them, never, to try anyone else. You are going to be buzzed several times a day, have people peek through your windows, and basically [be] asked to drop everything to solve whatever their problem is.

‘Disconnecting the buzzer helps a little but there’s still a lot of footfall, intrusion, [and] people treating you as the backup for all neighbour-related tasks. I’d definitely think twice next time.’

They weren’t alone in their experience. For @minimumof6, someone on the top floor of their building runs an Airbnb.

‘Their code for their key safe is 1999…can you guess how many guests have no idea what an intercom is and enter this code into the intercom, subsequently buzzing us?’ she wrote.

‘About six in 10 people. I’m permanently WFH so I made a note. I had to ask them to remove the one from the code.’

Meanwhile, @Original_Nothing_787 used to live on the top floor of a block of flats. After the delivery drivers realised that they worked from home and were subsequently in ‘all the time,’ they became the go-to parcel people.

‘They ended up ringing us every day instead of the flats they actually had mail for…was frustrating at least,’ they penned. ‘Never let anyone know you’re home during the day.’

@FootballBackground88 used to live in a block of flats where the road address was 88, and so everyone’s address was ‘Flat X, 88 Y Road.’ It caused such a nuisance that flat 88 ‘had a notice on the door as they were harassed so frequently.’

However, while it might be frustrating constantly being treated like the concierge, there’s more value to living at number one than initially meets the eye.

As per one previous study from Rightmove, this number actually has the highest valuation at an average of £393,690.

It’s not such good news for number 13 though, which has the lowest average property value at £354,793 – a difference of 11%.

For superstitious reasons, number 13 has the lowest average property value of them all at £354,793 – £5,333 lower than the average across the study of £360,126.

For this reason, there are almost double the number of houses number 14 than 13 across the UK, with many streets choosing to skip the notoriously ‘unlucky’ number.

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