Houseboat owners’ dreams sunk by crooked developer

A property tycoon is facing jail after he sold five houseboats on the Thames for £3.5m to buyers who had no right to live in them. Myck Djurberg, 64, bought the Hampton Riviera Boat Yard in Richmond in 2011 and built a series of expensive houseboats. But he did not get planning permission for the boats and sold them without residential mooring licences. Djurberg had assured his clients they could live onboard but it was only when the purchasers moved…

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