The Great House Giveaway

Most of the properties are sold off, apparently, with huge losses at below market value so who buys these bargains I can't imagine the show makers are so silly as to make such large losses on most of the episodes. So who actually ends up with these house and how much was finally paid for each one and did the successful couple in the last episode really receive all of the +80k ????? I feel we are not told the full story especially regarding those amazingly high add on charges

Whatched quite a few episodes of this series now having only recently come across it. Far better then the BBC'S Homes Under the Hammer in as much as they do not just gloss over the costs, such as legal fees and other expenses. After watching a episode of Homes Under the Hammer it makes property development look like a licence to print money where here you get the true story and if anything it prepares you for the realities of dabbling in the property flip market. One thing that does stand out from the episodes I have seen is that Tayo Ogungbenro comes across as someone who does not know the first thing about property development. I am sure it's the producers that chose the property and participants but he often says "looks like they have bitten off more than they can chew" when on the face of it he buys a overpriced property gives them the budget and timescale then in effect blames them for not making a profit? Odd really as the episodes with Simon O'Brien seem to be more "we're all in this together" not sure why the producers set it up like this.

Homes Under The Hammer meets First Dates meets Changing Rooms. Effectively a cringefest as two people who don't know each other (and often do not get on) are given a house (often bought too expensively) to renovate and end up doing things that are not needed, lose interest, make a poor job of finishing it and spectacularly fail to make any money, especially given apparently exorbitant fees. A programme so flawed in its execution that it almost becomes a car crash to watch - just record it and skip to the end to see how things have fallen apart and how uncomfortable the presenter is this week.

I've visited this site many times to check out the ratings on movies before I waste my time looking at them. But I've never created an account. But I've been so disappointed and angry looking at this show that I had to check the ratings. I was correct in my reasoning. As most of the people have commented, this show is a total rip off. Even on the show two days ago the builder couldn't believe the budget that they were given. Simon always acts like every project should be a success. Even after one house was sabotaged and the work had to be redone he still seemed to put the blame on the two renovators. Why are fees added into the renovations. This is completely not on. I will not be watching it again. Just a waste of my precious time.

Felt so strongly about this that I signed up to comment! It's an awful programme, exploiting young people with busy lives and limited to no building / renovation experience. The presenter with his team which turns up at the drop of a hat is smug and judgemental beyond belief. There is a lot unexplained about where the money comes from and who covers the losses. The only good thing is that it gives the lie to Homes under the Hammer on BBC1 where almost everyone shown seems to make a profit. Here, almost nobody does.