Developers have turned a house into an island in China after the owner refused to move out.

The villa now stands alone in a 30ft deep man-made pit in Chongqing city, reports Jinbao Daily.



The Chongqing Zhengsheng Real Estate Company wants to turn the area into a £40m 'Broadway' square, including apartments and a shopping mall.

But the owner of the villa says he won't move out unless the company pays his price - the equivalent of £1.3 million.

"The villa owner refuses to move, so the real-estate developer has had to dig out all around it to force him to," says a saleswoman at Weilian Real Estate Sales Company.

"He wants 20 million yuan, or he'll stay till the end of the world."



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it is amazing this can happen in a Communist country...but the developers are definately making a point that will likely influence any future homeowners in the same position.

When I saw the headline, I wondered if The Fatman had declared himself a European free state due to his immense size.

I can't find it online, but there's a church in Manhattan that wouldn't sell and developers built up and over it. It sits in an alcove of a highrise iirc. This seems similar.

They've undermined this houses foundation by cutting so close to it- its only a matter of time til it topples over.

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