THE Old Hospital building in Minehead was sold for £350,000 at auction last week - and it wasn't to Minehead Development Trust.

The identity of the highest bidder is unknown and it is unclear what is to be done with the building.

Minehead Development Trust – a regeneration group – had hoped to purchase the Grade II listed building to turn it into a community hub, providing the town with services such as a library and information centre, a museum and a large community run public space.

According to a poll by the County Gazette, 59% of the people who answered it wanted to see a community hub in

Sutton Kersh has attracted 131 lots for its property auction on Thursday 16 April.

Among the lots going under the hammer is a substantial vacant residential property with investment and resale potential on Croxteth Road in Liverpool.

The three storey semi-detached close to Sefton Park and Princes Park has been converted to provide 13 self-contained flats, which could produce annual rental income of over £65,000 when fully let. It is being offered at a guide price of £400,000 plus on behalf of a housing association.

Meanwhile, a vacant three storey Victorian property on Judges Drive in Newsham

Smith and Sons’ first Wirral property auction of 2015 has raised more than £1.2m.

Held at the Village Hotel, Bromborough, the auction room was packed with the highest attendance figures for several years.

There was “lively and competitive bidding” for houses in need of refurbishment and repair with a four-bed house in Wallasey guided at £40,000 selling for £73,000.

Chris Johnson, auctioneer at Smith and Sons, said: “There were many regular visitors but it was also good to see new faces keen on buying investment opportunities as well as homes for owner occupation.”

There was great deal of

This semi-detached, lock-up shop premises with accommodation over is located just a short walking distance from the Merton Meadow car park and the Old Market shopping centre with its new restaurants, shops, major stores and cinema.

The property offers considerable scope for modernisation and restoration or would ideally convert into residential accommodation, subject to the necessary planning consents being obtained.

As well as benefitting from large ground floor accommodation, there are three rooms on the first floor, which could serve as bedrooms and a second shower room; and to the rear

Llandudno's Grand Theatre, and former Broadway Boulevard nightclub, was sold last week at auction for £140,000.

The dilapidated property went under the hammer with no reserve price, it could have sold for just £1 , but it sold at auction with Allsops in London for £140,000.

Broadway Boulevard closed in June 2013 after parent company Atmosphere Bars and Clubs went into administration.

Initially the landmark site was put up for sale for £750,000, it was reduced to £500,000 and was then put up for auction in December. At that sale it failed to meet the reserve.

Despite mentioning the potential

A fisherman's cottage that features on the cover of a Pink Floyd album has been sold at auction for £215,000 - £55,000 above the guide price.

Garden Cottage at Dungeness is believed to be the one on the sleeve for the band’s compilation A Collection of Great Dance Songs.

It also featured in numerous TV programmes including Jayne Eyre and the Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

It was one of 168 lots listed by auctioneers Clive Emson at Maidstone over five days of sales. It was bought for way above the guide price of between £165,000 and £170,000.

Believed to have been built in the mid-19th century

A nuclear bunker has sold at auction for £18,000.

The property for sale with Clive Emson auctioneers exceeded the pre-sale guide price of £10,000 to £15,000.

Although it wasn't the most attractive des res it was certainly a lot cheaper and a fair bit safer than the average two-up two-down.

The subterranean construction on the Peninsula Way north of Hoo was built in the 1950s as part of a network of bunkers across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It was designed to provide shelter for two or three people for several weeks.

The bunker was designed to provide shelter for two or three people

Local estate agents Aston Mead have described the failure to increase the inheritance tax threshold to £1m in today’s Budget as “a missed opportunity”.

Plans to raise the threshold were included in the Conservative manifesto before the 2010 election, but failure to reach an outright majority meant the proposals did not make it into the Coalition agreement. However, in a speech last October, Prime Minister David Cameron repeated his intention to “shoehorn” the move into his final Budget before the General Election.

Aston Mead Managing Director Charles Hesse said: “The existing allowance is

The latest data from The Office For National Statistics has revealed that UK house prices increased by 8.4% in the year to January 2015, a drop of 1.4% compared to the previous month.

The report highlighted that annual house price growth is beginning to show signs of slowing across the majority of the UK with increases in England mainly driven by a 13% annual increase in London. The average UK mix-adjusted house price in January 2015 was £273,000.

The lowest growth in January 2015 was in Yorkshire and the Humber, where prices increased by 3.6% over the year. Excluding London and the South East

An Art Deco-style home in Blackwood which needs “extensive” renovation has gone up for auction after failing to sell.

The property, which was the most popular property in Wales on Zoopla during October last year after it went on the market, is called Shangri La.

It went on sale priced at £300,000 last September and almost 19,000 prospective buyers viewed the Grade II listed home on Zoopla over the next 30 days.

The double fronted, three bed room house is now for sale through Paul Fosh Auctions with a guide price of £170,000 plus.

Keri Harding-Jones, of Paul Fosh Auctions, said: “It’s a one