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A family who paid a down payment on a Housing Development Corporation (HDC) home more than four years ago was left stunned on December 29 after discovering strangers putting up decorations and preparing to move into the unit, just weeks before they were finally due to receive the keys.

The couple, who have children and asked not to be identified, made a police report on December 29 after they were alerted that people were inside their HDC town house at Riverside South, Corinth, near San Fernando.

Police were at the unit by the time the couple arrived.