Property Ladder: 20th November- Chiswick

Richard & Isabel have bought on the outskirts of Chiswick, West London, a 2 hidious bedroom house. They planned to double it in size to create an enormous, luxury family home. But they didn't do it by something as simple as a loft or side extension; they excavated tons of earth from beneath the house to make a whole new lower ground floor.




In packed cities where space is at a premium, basement excavations are growing in popularity. They’re an effective way to add serious square footage, but they’re also very expensive and shouldn’t be done unless you’re sure you can see a return in the property.
 
Richard & Isabel bought the property for £395K. They have an optimistic budget of £210K and they plan to sell for £900K. That would make them a phenomenal £295K in profit.


I haven't seen this episode yet. I'll watch it later tonight.

For those who watched it, what did you think?


EDIT:

I just watched it. That woman was so f'ing arrogant, I wanted to punch her in the face repeatedly. She thought she knew everything- but she knew nothing. NOTHING.


- wtf was that hidden room/fake door about?
- i personally thought the interior decoration inside the house was pathetic. Everything was mixed and matched.
- she catered for her own taste and disregarded the local market completely.
- the property was completely out of place. It was surrounded by a public car park, train tracks and what looked like a council estate full of flats. Who is going to buy a £1m property surrounded by that?
- the woman was acting like a spoilt shit when she was saying, "i want a house, i want a house", and her basis was, "i've developed flats before, and now i want a house". She acted like she was going to be living in the damn place, as opposed to the project being a money making scheme.
- she ignored Sarah's advice from day one about splitting the house into 2 seperate flats.


Overall, she was a complete tossor in my opinion and her partner was just a doormat, from what it appeared. I hope they make a substantial loss.

I need to find out how much that pile of shit sold for. The downstairs was amazing, but the upstairs was completely disjointed.

It was like a dog had taken a shit on a piece of diamond.

Sorry for the rant, guys, but she really pissed me off

I think they where intelligent people ... but just wanted to do a house ..... for themselves and to make MORE money , than they had .

There where so many different styles in the house , it was just stupid and oh dear ... what was the woman wearing at the end .......


I havent got the time to list all the things they did wrong .. but there was alot .
But they got what they wanted from it ... which was basically doing something on a large scale I think.

Also I agree Countryboy ..... the area really wasnt good enough for that type of house .

If I had that amount of money to spend on a house ............ I definately WOULD'NT spend it out that house.

ps. woo I have no central heating now ( and Im freezing )

ahhh I see, they didn't target the right market geographically! I'm looking forward to it.

awful ... just awful .... trust me faggy

hmm ive forgotten already !! eeck

I think it was

800 ish k

900 ish k

and 1.1m

and they put it on for 1.3m

oh nah ... it ended up a four bedroom 4 bathroom house ..

haha troll dress .

I see you liked the couple then !

The fake door was really stupid .... and there idea to dig that room .... but block it up was sooooooooo stupid .

and ergh them voile curtains .

I dont know how sarah beeny can be nice to people like that .

haha yeh .... I loved when Sarah said that she had something from every era ... and she was like . Go on when haha It was great .

Yeh ... I hated them .

argh why do crap people end up with all the money .. there should be a law against it

Episodes like that should be an inspiration. If idiots like that can squeeze money out of development, then we can, ten fold.

Stop sticking up for the arrogant troll!

You're meant to be on my side. What's wrong with you? I thought we were buddies for life?

Stop sticking up for the arrogant troll!

You're meant to be on my side. What's wrong with you? I thought we were buddies for life?

ok .... I'll admit it , they where total imberseals .... I was trying to be nice

I dont know if I like this seasons property ladder that much .... its very watchable ...... but soo annoying , I cant help but yell at the TV even if Im on my own .

I hate stupid people that always want there own way ... but then I look at my own project .. and I think maybe I'm just as crap ! ... but atleast I can see it 

It upsets me too ... every time I think about it


yes ... true haha I like Tuesdays nights now.
But it would be nice , if just once ... there was nothing to bitch about.

I should make a sarah beeny style show of my house haha and then everyone can be bitchy . It would be great .. or maybe not

These people need to get to Austrailia as soon as poss and stop freakin pi55in around with houses,  It has to be the worst development i have seen to date,
Ok i would live their no problem, only thing is it would need 100k spending on the top part to blend in with the bottom.
They really messed up on this one and i would think they wont make their money back.
#WHY WHY WHY WHYH WHWYHWYWHWYWH Didnt they just sell all the flats and other equity they had and move to Aus on that, GREED people GREAD i tell thee,

The deco. Freakin bejeesus, Tiff on the walls stain windows, big print w paper wtf curtains from where did she say, even so they where nasty and only half finished, a complete mess and they should live in it.

Yeah, I never understood that. They had 4 flats in total, I think. 3 in the UK and 1 in Dubai. It didn't make sense. From what they were doing, it sounded like they weren't going to make much from selling 4 properties. In that case, we have to wonder what the hell they had invested in...pieces of shit, perhaps? You'd like to think that after selling 4 properties you'd make a minimum of 100k.

What happened, Badgey, what happened?

The top of the house was so disjointed from the bottom, it was a mess.

The woman's attitude really annoyed me. She made the biggest mistake when it came to development. She kept saying, "I like to be different, I like different things". You can't apply that kind of mentality to development, especially when you're trying to sell it onto others for profit. She completely limited her market.

Channel 4 new what they were doing when they picked that couple. It was purely for entertainment value. It must have been.