“Weiss ruled that Ferreira was never served with the foreclosure papers, depriving him of due process.”

Home sweet foreclosed home: Queens man returns to home after judge overrules bank’s foreclosure

Johnny Ferreira may be the luckiest guy in Queens.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, a struggling homeowner who loses his home to foreclosure will never see it again.

Last month, a judge vacated a bank’s foreclosure sale of Ferreira’s home, effectively handing him back his keys.

As a result, Ferreira is preparing to move back into the same brick two-family with postage stamp front lawn, snug backyard and tidy driveway he’d been evicted from two years ago.

“He loves that house,” his lawyer, Penkaj Malik, said. “He doesn’t want to move” again.

The extremely unusual ruling appears to be a one-of-a-kind victory in New York for a homeowner in a battle that banks almost always win.

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