Prediction: 15+ registered bidders for Townsville CBD cottage auction
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There are already seven registered bidders for this rundown Townsville CBD cottage, but the agent reckons that will double by auction day.
Located at 273 Stanley St, the cottage is a bit worse for wear, with the brick front porch almost non-existent, parts of the gutter have come away, windows are boarded up and the 208sq m block is strewn with fallen branches and twisted foliage.
It is being marketed by Ian Clarke of Ian Clarke Real Estate on behalf of the Public Trustee, and will go to auction on Saturday at 10am.
“It has been pretty popular,” he said.
“There are seven registered already but I reckon that will double, or get to at least 15 by auction day.”
And Mr Clarke has a pretty good track record for drawing huge crows to his Public Trustee auctions.
Late last year, a hoarder house in West