Man who discovered a $1.5m home had been built on his land recalls the moment he was first told

A man who purchased some land in the 1990s was left reeling after he returned to the plot years later to discover someone had built a $1.5 million house on it. 

Although the whole thing sounds a bit like the plot of a Netflix drama series, it was the sad reality for Doctor Daniel Kenigsberg. 

Dr Kenigsberg bought the half-acre strip of land next door to the house where he grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1991. 

Kenigsberg, who specializes in endocrinology, had moved away from the area to attend medical school in New York and went on to get married and raise a family on Long Island. 

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The man recalled the moment he was told the news

He held onto the land for decades and hoped to one day pass it down to his family. 

“Certainly if one of my children wanted to live in Fairfield, Connecticut, I’d be very happy about that,” he told Greenwich Time in 2023.

So you can imagine his surprise when he got a call from an old school friend who happened to mention that they were building a property on the lot next to his childhood home.

A  property Kenigsberg knew absolutely nothing about. 

“I said, ‘I own that and I never sold it,’” Kenigsberg recalled. “I was shocked.”

That same day, Kenigsberg took the ferry over to the Sky Top Terrace lot and was shocked to see that an almost-complete four-bedroom home – reportedly worth around $1.5 million – was on the land. 

He has since taken legal action in regards to the house sale

After doing some digging, Kenigsberg found that the home was under offer in March of this year. 

Official records state that the land was sold for $350,000 in October 2022.

But Kenigsberg says he knew absolutely nothing about the sale. 

After making the shocking discovery, Kenigsberg hired a lawyer to take legal action against the firms involved with the sale of the property. 

Kenigsberg is looking for $2 million in damages. 

He is also demanding that the company in question removes ‘any structures and/or materials from the Property and restore the Property to the condition that it was in before the defendants’ trespass’.

“I’m angry that so many people were so negligent that this could have happened,” the doctor added. 

“It wasn’t for sale. It’s more than obnoxious, it’s offensive and wrong.”