Pointless property programs

Pyewacket338

The difference with The Home Show is that it classes a house as a home, not as a way of making a financial killing...... the sooner we all return to living in a house because we want to live there and not for how much cash we can make from it the better!

besonders1

They're kind of ironic now, but for the people who were attracted by these "get rich" schemes, they just "rub it in". I have noticed the same repeated shows are on TV but with a subtitles at the end of the valuation advising "spring 2007"

I suppose all they do is earn money by proving greedy people with what they want to hear. If people like phil spencer, kirsty and sarah beeny were such good developers then why tell the whole country how to do this? The answer is because they love making money from being on TV. I bet you next year the same people will be on TV telling FTB's buyers to zap up all the repossessions or how to get a house cheaper. They will still be famous but targeting a different market.

bo_drinker

Pennywise wrote: »

Because people still watch them. Is it really any different to pointless quizes, pointless cookery programmes, pointless soaps, etc?

Most of what is on TV is pointless. Total !!!!!! most of it

wymondham

bo_drinker wrote: »

Most of what is on TV is pointless. Total !!!!!! most of it

Quite true... especially all the cookery programs. Sad really as they must be in demand, just hope I don't meet any of their audience!

oh yes, and whats with that program where you watch people eating around a table - whats that all about??

jig

They should show when it goes wrong showing the loss and the whole thing going pete tong

mewbie_2

jig wrote: »

They should show when it goes wrong showing the loss and the whole thing going pete tong

There's one next week on Dave+. It's called Repo Up My Area and features a new media couple - Krusty Broderick and Dithering Beeny. First one they visit is a hermit (ed: short for hermaphrodite?) called StevieJ who having lost all his money is now set on building a house out of porridge.

Cleaver

mewbie wrote: »

There's one next week on Dave+. It's called Repo Up My Area and features a new media couple - Krusty Broderick and Dithering Beeny. First one they visit is a hermit (ed: short for hermaphrodite?) called StevieJ who having lost all his money is now set on building a house out of porridge.

I'll watch it an hour later on Dave +1.

Or two hours later on Dave +2.

Cleaver

wymondham wrote: »

Quite true... especially all the cookery programs. Sad really as they must be in demand, just hope I don't meet any of their audience!

oh yes, and whats with that program where you watch people eating around a table - whats that all about??

I quite like cookery programmes. And the show you're referring to is called Come Dine With Me and... erm... I'm watching it right now.

Airwolf1

I watched buy it, rent it, bank it today. Chap bought a mid terraced at auction (property in West London) and did some quite good work on it, although did a massive playhouse!! If I remember correctly, he bought for around £330,000 and spent £60,000 on the property.

During renovation, when everything had been stripped, the house was valued at £330,000, when finished, valued at £500,000 and he'd done an excellent job. Obviously I don't know what the property sold for in the end, but I guess he made a fair bit. I think by the sounds of it, this was filmed a short while ago, maybe only a 2-3 months as it mentioned the market conditions which sounded similar to that of 2-3 months ago.

I thought this programme today was quite good, and enoyed watching it, and it was nice to see the valuation with all the hard work the chap had put into it.

john539

Airwolf1 wrote: »

I watched buy it, rent it, bank it today. Chap bought a mid terraced at auction (property in West London) and did some quite good work on it, although did a massive playhouse!! If I remember correctly, he bought for around £330,000 and spent £60,000 on the property.

During renovation, when everything had been stripped, the house was valued at £330,000, when finished, valued at £500,000 and he'd done an excellent job. Obviously I don't know what the property sold for in the end, but I guess he made a fair bit. I think by the sounds of it, this was filmed a short while ago, maybe only a 2-3 months as it mentioned the market conditions which sounded similar to that of 2-3 months ago.

I thought this programme today was quite good, and enoyed watching it, and it was nice to see the valuation with all the hard work the chap had put into it.

I think it's unlikely any program you see was filmed 2-3 months ago.
This is the problem, the programs seem like from a property frenzy time warp.

Unfortunately many programs don't always have dates, so they can be repeated without people knowing they are watching an old or repeated program.

In the heyday boom times I regularly saw endless property programs & you had no idea when they were filmed, as they were filmed in a way like it was yesterday.

Skillfully deceiving.