That’s because the family there decided not to sell up in the face of the development, so instead a sea of new houses were built around their home.
The Zammits have lived in their house Down Under for almost 20 years, and their five acre plot of land contains huge lawns, a 200 metre long driveway and a pretty sizeable family home.
It seems like a nice place, and indeed was so nice that when property developers decided to build a housing estate there they were willing to offer the family AUS$50 million (£25 million) to pack up and move on.
While they could have taken the deal to sell up and move out, they instead saw ‘farmland dotted with little red brick homes and cottages’ replaced by row after row of new houses.
Up to 50 homes could be built on their land but they’re keeping it, and a man decided to visit Quakers Hill, Sydney to have a look.
They’re not going anywhere (7News)
YouTuber Adam Hendry showed how the various streets of similar looking houses were broken up by the Zammit house plonked right in the middle.
He ended up liking the place because of what it stood for and slammed the housing developments around it as ‘a very small amount of land in a very expensive country’.
Adam wasn’t the biggest fan of the way the house actually looked, but liked that the family had stuck to their principles and resisted attempts to sell up in the face of a big offer from the developers.
Some others who are glad that the family didn’t sell up are the Zammit’s new neighbours, who like Adam think that having an island of something completely different slap bang in the middle of the rather homogenous housing development they lived in was a good thing.
The new neighbours have said they’re ‘very happy’ to still have the Zammit house around as they reckon it’s ‘much safer for our kids’.
The massive lawn that comes with the property makes them feel like the surrounding area is more open as well.
They’ve said that since ‘the other houses are so close together’ having a wide open space in the middle of the development helps change the feel of things.
Around the world there are a number of properties where the owners have steadfastly refused to move, forcing developers to go around them which has changed the way houses, roads and roundabouts have been built.
