After spending $500,000, a couple learned their home was on the wrong site

Couple had built their home on the neighbour’s block, PC: A Current Affair Melanie and David Moor spent more than $500,000 on what they expected to be their retirement home in Camperdown, south-west Victoria, only to discover that the house had been placed entirely on a neighbouring block. The couple had bought land in a new subdivision in 2021 and, after obtaining permits, installed a driveway and relocated a four-bedroom house onto the 2-hectare property they believed they owned. Instead, the house had been moved onto the adjacent block, which belonged to someone else. The mistake was discovered in August 2024, while the Moors were completing work on the house, after a council officer told David Moor to stop construction and seek legal advice. The couple then spent almost two years trying to resolve the dispute, including an unsuccessful proposal to swap the two properties. In April 2026, the house was finally moved about 100 metres onto the block the Moors actually owned.The confusion began when the land was still an undivided paddockThe Moors first viewed the subdivision in August 2021, when the land was still part of a larger 8-hectare paddock that had not yet been divided int...