Rubbish-filled house beats auction estimate

Pictures of the property in Riddlesden show several rooms full of rubbish

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.

The home was one of several assets sold by the local authority during an online auction

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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