TWO Council owned properties have been sold at auction – with one selling for £145,000 over its guide price.

Bradford Council is in the process of selling off scores of assets and properties as part of a bid to balance its books.

A number of properties were due to go under the hammer at an online auction on Wednesday, although many of the auctions were postponed in the week before the auction.

The two remaining have both sold for more than their guide price.

The freehold of 207 Cutler Heights Lane, a Council owned building that is leased as office space, was one of the properties sold.

The building, which currently generates £14,000 a year in rent, had a guide price of £92,000.

But at the end of the online auction the sale price had reached £237,000.

The site of the former Branshaw Special School on Oakworth Road, Keighley, a 1.28 acre site that has previously been described as suitable for housing, was also on sale.

That lot had a £160,000 guide price, but ended up selling for £187,000.

The next online auction to include a series of Council properties on October 16.