Man returns to land he bought in 1991 for home to find a $1.5m house already on it

POV: buying a plot of land with the dream of building your forever home, then you return to find a $1.5 million house built on it.

This is what actually happened to the vacant lot bought by Dr Daniel Kenigsberg.

The doctor, who specializes in endocrinology, is taking the owner of the ‘cuckoo’ house to court.

The home ended his long-term hopes of owning a house next door to his childhood home.

Situated in New Haven, Connecticut, Kenigsberg bought the half-acre strip at 51 Sky Top Terrace back in 1991.

His father bought the home nearby for just $5,000 in 1953 – so it had sentimental significance.

His family even bought the lot directly from Eleazar Parmly Jr. – the family that settled the area in 1716.

Dr Kenigsberg raised his family in Long Island, after medical school in New York and a residency in Maryland, per Greenwichtime.

Despite leaving the lot vacant for several decades, Dr Kenigsberg never let go of his dream of one day moving back to the area.

“Certainly if one of my children wanted to live in Fairfield, Connecticut, I’d be very happy about that,” Kenigsberg said. However, on May 31 of this year, he received a call that would shatter that dream.

(Dr Daniel Kenigsberg)

A friend informed him that a $1.5 million house had cropped up on the vacant land.

Recalling the conversation, he told CT Insider: “I said: ‘I own that and I never sold it’. I was shocked.”

He visited the site and saw an almost-completed four-bedroom house that was valued at $1.45 million to be precise.

According to its listing, the home was under offer in March. Official records state that the land was sold to 51 Sky Top Partners LLC for $350,000 in October 2022.

However, Kenigsberg claims he knows nothing about the sale. He is taking legal action and suing the firm on nine counts.

These cover charges of trespass, statutory theft and unfair trade practices, as well as an additional $2 million in damages. He hopes the lawsuit will void the sale of the land.

He is demanding that the company involved removes “any structures and/or materials from the Property and restore the Property to the condition that it was in prior to Defendants’ trespass upon it”.

Reports suggest 51 Sky Top Partners have also claimed to be victims of a scam.

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