I deleted a house from a lot, the Alto house. I wanted to place another house on that lot. Once the lot was clear it showed as an empty lot, but when I tried to place a house on it I got an error message saying "cannot place house on that lot". I checked, it's a residential lot so I don't see why I can't put a house on it. I tried the following.

Went back to game, played for a bit then back to edit town again, didn't work.

Changed lot to community back to game, back to edit town and changed back to residential, still nothing. The symbol for empty lot just disappears as soon as I try to place a lot, I still try and get that error message.

I can build on it if I want, but I have a house I want to move there. I tried other houses as I thought it might have been because I downloaded the lot from here but no house can be placed on that lot. I did look around but couldn't see anything on this, sorry if it has been mentioned somewhere before. It's an odd one.

Anyone got any ideas?

Have you checked the size of the house you're trying to place?

For example, if the house was created on a 40x40 lot, then you tried to put it on a 20x30 lot, you won't be able to do so.

Yes, it's a 40x30 and I want it on a 60x60 lot to give it a bigger garden, I've placed loads of houses in bigger lots already but they were already empty to start with. I cleared this one myself, I also made sure nothing was left over from the previous house, like an elusive light fitting or similar. I just don't see why it won't work. I have seen on the search for an answer through google that other people have come across this but nobody seem to understand what is happening. I now have a totally empty lot which is of no use to me unless I build myself, but I have a gorgeous house I wanted to use there. There are a lack of 60x60 lots in the game, a lack of large lots all round

Have you actually demolished the lot from the Edit Town screen?

If it still appears with a house icon (instead of an empty diamond icon) then you need to click the bulldozer button and delete the lot (it then becomes a vacant lot with the diamond icon).

Clearing out the contents of the lot doesn't do anything.

last time I tried deleting a lot I was left with an empty space with no lot on it. I have nothing to lose righ now so I'll try it

I got my solution. I had deleted the house from inside the lot, this doesn't clear it. You have to bulldoze the lot. Thanks magnamundian, that was exactly what I did