Ex-council house in St Ives sells at auction for £1.44m

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Sold fore more than double the guide price!

By Mark Grantham –  15th September 2017
A former council house in St Ives, Cornwall known as Sunset House has sold at auction for £1.44m, more than double the guide price of £625,000.

The three-bedroom property overlooking Porthmeor Beach went under the hammer at the Allsop auction in London on the 14th of September.

Its former owners, a housing association, say the proceeds will be ploughed into affordable housing.

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