Carlisle businessman Chris Meyer has become embroiled in a property nightmare after attempting to sell his three-bedroom flat – and discovering it’s actually owned by his next door neighbour.

The house he’d bought six years earlier, it transpired, was the one next to the one he’s been living in.

Of the 15 flat owners in the building on Carlisle’s Willow Holme Road, ten now face the same problem.

Mr Meyer first put his home on the market three years ago for £80,000. “I had loads of interest and an offer of £76,000,” he told the Carlisle News & Star.