Filthy house sells for £50k more than guide price at auction – despite rubbish piled up to the windows

A FILTHY spot has sold for much than £50,000 much than its estimated terms astatine an auction contempt rubbish piling up to the windows

A house with discarded filling up fractional the full country has sold for an eye-watering £153,000 erstwhile it's archetypal terms was £100,000.

The three-bedroom spot successful Keighley, West Yorkshire, was enactment up for auction with rubbish strewn each implicit the place.

In immoderate pictures of the place, bin bags afloat of discarded were piled up - immoderate truthful precocious they were reaching the windows.

The location instantly caught the attraction of social media and users were speedy to remark connected the revolting authorities of it.

One wrote: "Is that 1 of the assembly owned skips their closing down?"

Ander added: "Councils should marque tenants to wage rubbish they permission behind, they cognize who they are, don't discarded taxpayer's money."

A 3rd idiosyncratic was shocked astatine the usher price, not knowing it was beryllium accrued different £50,000 saying: "£100k they are having a laugh."

The terraced location connected Scott lane is wholly filled with aged appliances and hundreds of deteriorating bearer bags filled to the brim with rubbish.

On Right Move the listing had stated the filthy spot was a bully "renovation project."

As a semi-detached dwelling that was wholly trashed it would surely request a batch of clip to repair.

The listed stated: "Requiring a afloat strategy of renovation.

"Arranged implicit 2 storeys, the spot offers 3 bedrooms and besides benefits from gardens to the beforehand and rear and a rear garage, arsenic good arsenic its sought-after location.

"Once renovated, the spot would marque a pleasant household home."

Right Move made it wide that the rubbish would not beryllium removed earlier the spot is purchased and is "sold arsenic seen."

The location was bought by Bradford Council with a compulsory acquisition bid (CPO) and said the proprietor had made "very small contact" earlier it was bought.

It had been stood bare since astatine slightest 2014 contempt galore attempts to interaction the owner.

The determination for a CPO is made by the Government bureau and tends to beryllium utilized a past resort.

In this lawsuit it was indispensable ass the location was bare for truthful agelong and was considered "wasted" successful a clip of much needed accommodation.

A assembly spokesperson said: " "Empty properties are hazard assessed by the council, taking galore factors into account, and CPO enactment is lone pursued wherever the assembly has capable grounds to show that unless it intervenes, the spot volition stay empty.

"If successful, the assembly sells properties acquired connected the unfastened market, successful their existent information truthful arsenic to debar incurring immoderate further costs and truthful arsenic to usage nationalist funds responsibly, and this is understandably reflected successful the merchantability price."