In an unusual turn of events, a British construction worker, Keith Best, has sold a property he obtained through an ancient Roman law, making a significant profit. Millor spotted an empty three-bedroom house in Newbury Park, London, in 1997 while working near construction. He began renovating the property and moved his family into the house in 2015.
The house originally belonged to retiree Colin Curtis, who lived on the property with his mother until the late 1990s. Curtis inherited the property, but due to an ancient Roman law allowing “someone in possession of property without title to become the legal owner if the original owner did not come forward after a time”, Best became in the legal owner.
Best had filed an adverse possession application about a decade ago to legally obtain the property. The Main Land Registry initially denied the application following a law criminalizing squatting, but the ruling was overturned by the High Court in 2014. The judge found that at least 10 years had passed.” without effective action by the owner” to take control of the property. property.
Curtis died in 2018 at the age of 80 and had filed a counterclaim against the judge's ruling. However, he was dismissed because he was not listed as executor of his mother's estate. His mother, Doris Curtis, died in the 1980s and had no will. Curtis continued to pay council taxes on the house after moving out in 1996, but rarely visited the house.
The house had been in the Curtis family since World War II, and neighbors expressed displeasure at Best taking legal ownership of the property. The house was worth approximately £400,000 when Best took over. He sold the house to Atiq Hayat, 35, for £540,000, the equivalent of roughly $682,000, making a profit of roughly £140,000 or $177,000.
Hayat, the new owner, was unaware of the house's legal past until reporters contacted him for comment. He expressed surprise at the house's legal history, wondering how someone could take over an empty house and make it their own. Despite the unusual circumstances, Hayat claimed the sale was conducted in the proper legal manner through lawyers.
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