Man stunned to find $1.5M house built on vacant family land

A man was “shocked” after discovering a nearly $1.5 million house had popped up on a piece of Connecticut land his family had owned since the 1950s, allegedly by developers who bought the property from a scammer posing as the owner.

For decades, Dr. Daniel Kenigsberg believed the wooded Fairfield lot in Connecticut would remain in his family.

His parents, Nathaniel and Esther Kenigsberg, purchased roughly an acre of land there in 1953 for just over $5,000. They built a home on one side of the property while leaving the rest of the land untouched, according to The Washington Post.

Kenigsberg said he spent his childhood exploring the lot, where he built a treehouse in an apple tree and played baseball with neighborhood friends before eventually leaving Connecticut to attend medical school.

After training in New York and Maryland, he settled with his wife in Setauket, New York, where they raised two children.