Rubbish-strewn home goes under the hammer and fetches eye-popping price

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A filthy, rubbish-strewn house described as a “renovation project” has sold at auction for an eye-popping £153,000. The three-bedroom, terraced house is filled with hundreds of old carrier bags stuffed with junk - while shocking photographs show the living room and kitchen areas strewn with boxes, old appliances, clothes and a suitcase.

In one bedroom, rubbish is piled up as high as the window frame. Eyebrows were raised when the council-owned property on Scott Lane West, Keighley, West Yorkshire, was put up for auction for £100,000 on Tuesday (5 November) in its current state, without being cleaned up.

But in the end, the property fetched £153,000 when it went under the hammer. The house was bought by Bradford council last year with a compulsory purchase order.

In the auction listing, the property was described as being in a "sought-after location" and had potential to make a “pleasant family home”.