Rubbish-filled house beats auction estimate

A house filled with rubbish has fetched more than £50,000 over its estimate at an auction raising funds for Bradford Council.

Pictures of the council-owned three-bed property in Riddlesden, near Keighley, show several rooms piled high with waste material.

With a guide price of £100,000, the home on Scott Road West ended up selling for £153,000, with further council assets at the auction reaching a total of £1m.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Bradford Council purchased the property via a compulsory purchase order last year.

While it currently contained "a large amount of rubbish”, a listing for the house suggested it would make "a pleasant family home" once renovated.

Another council lot, a plot of land at Flappit Springs, Cullingworth, sold for 15 times its £5,000 guide price during the online auction by Pugh Properties.

Land at Fell Lane in Keighley – once the site of the demolished Holme Wood Resource Centre - sold for £626,000.

A mid-terrace house in the Manningham area of Bradford had a guide price of £65,000, but sold for £146,000 during the auction held on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The assets sold for a total of £1m, more than double the expected £495,000 based on the guide prices.

No details of any of the buyers were disclosed.

The local authority hoped to raise £100m by selling off more than 150 buildings and plots of land in a bid to balance the books.

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