Last year’s valuation was $36100 but now it is listed on the Trulia real estate website with an estimated value of $77000 (R700200).

2207 Seymour Avenue, where Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were kept, sometimes bound with ropes and chains, is described as a colonial-style “single-family home” located in the Tremont district of Cleveland, Ohio. According to the site, the average list price for similar homes is $125717.

As the world now knows, the home has a basement, four bedrooms and an outside garage.

Castro is said to have kept all three women in his basement at the start of their incarcerations before moving them upstairs to locked bedrooms.

The Trulia site offers valuations of houses across the US based on recent sale prices or, as with Castro’s home, public records.

But will the real estate agents who advertise on the Trulia website be able to sell 2207 Seymour Avenue, and can they really hope to get $77000?

One agent said the old valuation of $36100 was nearer the mark, given local crime statistics, and that many neighbouring properties were rundown.

There is also the issue of unpaid taxes.

According to USA Today, the city of Cleveland is owed $2501 in unpaid taxes on the property.