Hawaii judge orders demolishing of $500,000 home built on wrong lot, trashed by squatters

A construction company accidentally built a house on a vacant lot in Hawaii. Then the developer sued the property's true owner. Now a judge has ruled on the fiasco.

Annaleine Reynolds bought a vacant, one-acre lot in Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island for around $22,500 at a county tax auction in 2018. Reynolds lives in California, but planned to eventually move and start hosting meditative healing women's retreats on the property. Hannah Ray Lambert is an associate producer/writer with Fox News Digital Originals.

But last year, she got a call from a real estate broker informing her that a three-bedroom house had been built and then sold on her property. A listing for the house that was later removed priced it at $499,000. The mistake was only uncovered when the broker ran a title check on the property during closing, which nullified the sale.