If the Australian dream of owning a home includes the freedom that comes with enjoying your own space, this is well and truly a nightmare.

A Brisbane resident recently came across the disturbing sight of two properties with overlapping gutters in the up-market Newport estate.

Karen Evans-Byrn spotted the two houses with barely any space between them, and uploaded a shot to the Redcliffe Peninsula Community Facebook page.

Little bit close for comfort (Karen Evans-Byrn/Facebook)

“We had heard the houses were really close to each other so thought we would have a look at some existing houses in the estate,” Ms Evans-Byrn told the Courier Mail.

“It was a bit too close.”

So close in face that the property developer behind the estate has amended development applications to ensure future houses in the area will not be built in such close proximity in the future.

In a statement to the Courier Mail, Stockland said, “In the early states of Stockland’s Newport community the project’s approval allowed a small number of neighbouring properties to build to the same shared boundary in select locations.

“We became aware of the issue in 2017 and quickly amended the development application for current and future stages of the community in order to address the distance between neighbouring properties.”

Ms Evans-Byrn’s photo has gained plenty of traction online, even going viral.

One Facebook commentator writes, “Only one reason for this type of density. Greed right down the line from developers to council rates collector.”

Others have a different perspective: “Plus side if you run out of toilet paper I am sure the neighbours could just pass you some through the window.”