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Gold Coast couple Jess and Jackie Morecroft awarded $2.7 million by court in compensation over lost house

Jess and Jacki Morecroft were awarded $2.7 million in compensation by the Supreme Court on Friday.  (ABC News: Alexandria Utting)

The state government has been ordered to pay compensation to a Queensland couple whose house was given back to the previous owner by a court, five years after it was sold.

But Jess and Jackie Morecroft may still be required to pay significant costs for the legal action that forced them to move out of the Gold Coast property where they have lived since 2018.

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