A "DILAPIDATED' Council owned home has sold for over five times its guide price at a property auction.

27 Sydenham Place has no running water, is missing areas of floor and ceiling and is described as having "no formal accommodation."

The Bradford Council owned back to back house went under the hammer at an online auction yesterday with a guide price of just £15,000.

But despite the poor condition, the property eventually sold for £79,000 at the Pugh Property Auction.

Another Bradford Council owned property, 3 Cranbrook Street, Clayton, also exceeded its guide price. It had been listed for £40,000, but ended up selling for £61,000.

Current housing policies at Bradford Council include buying long empty properties to sell them on - bringing them back to use.

A Council spokesperson, said: “Empty properties can often blight neighbourhoods, attract antisocial behaviour and have a detrimental impact on communities. They are also a wasted resource.

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“Our Empty Homes Team seeks to bring long term empty properties back into use through various approaches ranging from advice, financial assistance through grants and loans through to compulsory purchase.

"Properties are only purchased through compulsorily purchase as a last resort and only where other approaches encouraging owners to bring their houses back into use themselves have been unsuccessful.

"Long term empty properties purchased by the Council are then sold onto new owners, usually on the open market, with a requirement that the new owners bring them back up to standard so they can be usefully occupied again.”