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Ruined house with £0 guide price sells for £50,000

Paul Fosh Auctions The inside of a building damaged by a fire, with burnt rubble and debris on the groundPaul Fosh Auctions
The three-bedroom terraced house in New Tredegar sold for £50,250 after its initial guide price of £0

A terraced house by the Welsh valleys that went up for auction with a guide price of nothing has sold for £50,000.

The three-bedroom, burned-out shell in New Tredegar, Caerphilly county, had 15 people bidding on it.

Before going under the hammer, it was described as being "in a very sorry state of repair", but that did not put off potential buyers.

Andrew Kidd, a 58-year-old landscaper from Newport, had the winning bid of £50,250 after the bidding closed on Saturday and said : "I would have liked to get it £10,000 cheaper but I thought it was worth £50,000 all day long".

Andrew Kidd first saw the property through Paul Fosh Auctions and has not even visited yet.

He said he and his wife Victoria chose it as a "doer upper".

"We are looking forward to doing it. I said I would go up to £50,000 and my missus said 'oh just put a little extra'," he added.

"So, we put £50,250 and it was bang on the money."

Victoria Kidd A man and a woman smiling into the camera with a clock behind them hanging on a white wallVictoria Kidd
Andrew Kidd and Victoria Kidd were the winners of the auction on the New Tredegar property

Andrew said he and his son-in-law, who has a carpentry background, were taking on the challenge.

When asked about his plans he said: "We haven’t decided, we might sell it then go back to the auction site to get another one."

He said he hoped to sell it for about £125,000 and get all the work done in less than four months.

But Victoria, 55, joked "it will take seven to nine".

Paul Fosh Auctions The inside of the same terraced house in another room, with new debris including a burnt and dirt covered sofa and peeling burnt wallpaper Paul Fosh Auctions
The property has suffered severe fire damage but had 136 bids placed on it before bidding closed

Sean Roper of Paul Fosh Auctions said: "The state of the house and the price really seemed to grab people’s imagination.

"We had interest from all over the place and bids placed as soon as the auction went live".

He said there were a total of 136 bids on the property before Andrew's winning bid.

Houses on Jubilee Road, where the property is located, had an average sale price of £83,000 over the past year, according to Rightmove.