Imagine pouring your life savings, your hopes, and your dreams into what you believe is your forever home, only to discover it’s not yours at all.

For Sydney parents Mark and Emma, this isn’t a hypothetical nightmare – it’s their devastating reality, a chilling warning for every Australian property buyer.

The couple, with three children in tow, stretched their finances to the limit, paying a hefty $1.35 million for a house in Silverdale, Sydney’s west.

They’d sold their previous home, packed up their lives, and, in a flurry of excitement, moved into their new abode just a day before settlement was due.

“Everything from there went smoothly, right up until we were supposed to settle,” Emma recounted to A Current Affair .

Mark added, “Everything seemed on track until a day, two days,

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