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A woman is selling a flat along with its contents - that include her stubborn step-father who refuses to move out.

The Swedish lawyer inherited the top floor studio apartment when her mother died a few years ago, and now she wants to sell it.

But she has failed to convince her step-father to budge from the property, which overlooks Stockholm's trendy Södermalm district, despite a court order obliging him to do so, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The 52-year-old man has remained in the flat under a joint ownership clause - but that has now been ruled invalid.

So, in a bizarre case of buy-one-get-one-free, the woman says the apartment will be sold to the highest bidder - furnished, complete with the step-father.

Mats Ljungquist, a lawyer involved in the sale, warned it could get "very messy".

"Whoever buys the flat will have to organise the current tenant's eviction, as clearly outlined in the advertisement we ran in the weekend's papers," he told The Local, Sweden's English-language newspaper.

The apartment on Bergsundsgatan 13 in Södermalm will go up for auction on 26 August.

But prospective buyers should be warned that viewings ahead of the sale may prove difficult - as the current tenant is refusing to let anyone in.