Hoarder home where a mummified body was found wrapped inside a rug surrounded by rubbish hits the market for $2.25MILLION
- The former property of a serial hoarder has gone up for sale for $2.25million
- A dead body wrapped in a carpet was found inside the home in 2018
- The house was demolished and returned to the market as a 617sqm block
- The property is located in Greenwich, on Sydney's Lower North Shore
The former property of a serial hoarder where a dead body was found rolled in a carpet has hit the market for $2.25million.
The house in Greenwich, on Sydney's Lower North Shore, belonged to hoarder Bruce Roberts who kept the corpse of intruder Shane Snellman on the property for 16 years.
The 31 Greendale Street home was sold and demolished in 2018 and will return to the market this week as a 617sqm property block with development approval for a luxury house.
The former property of a hoarder (pictured) in Greenwich, on Sydney's Lower North Shore, has been put on the market for $2.25 million
The home of Bruce Roberts was demolished (pictured) in 2018 after the mummified body of Shane Snellman was found in wrapped in a rug and surrounded by rubbish
The property has a listing price of $2.25million and will go to auction in May.
Listing agent Karl Ferguson from McGrath in Greenwich said the property was turning over a new leaf and was ready to 'create a new history'.
He told Daily Mail Australia the hoarding damage was so severe 'the original home could not be salvaged.'
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Mr Ferguson said local residents were happy to be rid of the hoarder house.
He explained: 'We had a lot of neighbours who were excited to see the home demolished.
'We had dozens of calls asking what was going on, because there's still a lot of interest around that block and the history with it.'
Mr Ferguson said he felt confident its grim past would not hinder the property from being purchased.
'The fact that this property had some history behind it has certainly meant that there's a lot of extra interest,' Mr Ferguson said.
Listing agent Karl Ferguson said locals were happy the home (pictured) had been demolished
Mr Ferguson said the property had been purchased by an expatriate family residing in Singapore in 2018 who were no longer able to finish the build.
Hoarder Clean Up founder Chris Burgess was part of the team called in to clean the 'house of horrors' in May 2018.
The forensic clean up specialist told Daily Mail Australia it was one of the biggest jobs he had ever done.
'There was so much stuff to clear from it, it was unbelievable,' Mr Burgess said.
He said the cleaning effort took three weeks and cleared '30 to 40 truckloads' worth of rubbish.
Mr Burgess described hoarded items filled the home in 'every room from floor to ceiling'.
'When the sunlight hit the rooms at a certain angle all you could see was dust exploding in the air,' he said.
The property's original hoarder owner, Mr Roberts, died from a heart attack in 2017.
Police believe Mr Snellman was shot when he broke into Mr Roberts' home and died from a bullet wound to the shoulder.
He was found 16 years later wrapped in a rug and surrounded by rubbish.
The property was first auctioned off in 2018 where it sold for $2.07million and was attended by 200 people.
Pictured: The former house that belonged to Mr Roberts on the Greenwhich property
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