Tonight's Property Ladder, Channel 4

Bit late but I've diy to do. ;-)

Is this a new series coz they faffed about with that revisited rubbish so much before Christmas I'm confused? I wouldn't want to miss any more treats like this one.

Ignore that apparently it's a new series interspersed with episodes of a new series of Revisted so we can see how the last lot of muppets faired living in their homes they couldn't sell. :-)

According to the back leaf of the book:

"SB is a successful property developer who is well qualified to help novice developers move profitably up the property ladder. Her constructive and down-to-earth advice is backed up by her ten years of experience of running her own development and investment companies. This, combined with her evident enthusiasm for the subject and innate instinct for practical and design details make her guidance invaluable to any would-be property developer."

and the highlight of the series is looking in estate agents around the country while filming (suspect this is a dig at the "media luvies"). Mark S.

Richmond - west of London (tube zone 4). If you think that is bad try Hampstead. I'm in a not-so-cheap part of Surrey and I'd be able to exchange a nice 5-bed with small garden for a 1-bed flat 4th floor no lift

Zane.

Yes, Thatcher inflated their management tiers.

We don't have gaps worth talking about between houses. Between towns there are massive gaps of nothing, while house will crammed together. Sounds all wrong to me. Spread out.

Prey tell! What and where is this elusive land. Very little of the UK cannot be built on.

First time I've seen the Mediterranean referred to as "the pond". She is Greek :-)

Zane.

Because land account to 2/3 of the house value. Release land and house prices drop and people spread out.

You must mean some village in the middle of nowhere. Most people in London cannot afford the nightlife. Most of them do what everyone else does: look at TV and go the pub. Most may as well be elsewhere.

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Exactly. Personally I would like to see how she does it, in the way it should be done.

perhaps the "" around expert made my comment sound sarcastic - it wasnt meant to.

If you cast your mind back to 2002, C4 did 'From House to Home' when SB and a bloke from Changing Rooms did up a house by a room each week taking it from a blank box to quite tasty fairly quickly, plus a garden by The Daily Mail's columnist.

They say it's from the same team that brought you Pop Idol, guess what they are doing? Property Ladder USA

It's all getting boring now - same story each week, so bring back Kevin, and Nigel & Nippy in France

You know, this is quite entertaining. I put IMM in my Agent kill filter months ago so I don't get to see his responses on this newsgroup, unless I double-click on the message which I don't do often.

Even without the quotes it is quite a good game trying to figure out what he's just said.....!

And the one thing missing from Agent as far as I can see is that there is no undelete function in the kill filter......

PoP

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I hate London or anywhere that is built up. A good night out for me is a quiet meal in a decent and half-empty pub with my wife. My dream home would be a quiet village which has a good pub, post office and place to get provisions.

And I'd sell the car tomorrow if I could find an existence where it wasn't required.

PoP

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Of which London has what to any appreciable level of quality? Museums, yes; night buses, maybe. The others listed above have exactly two characteristics: crap and ludicrously expensive.

The sad thing is that so few of those who live in London actually realize what a third-rate city they are inhabiting (compared to, say, Paris, or Berlin, or Rome, or Milan, or Madrid, or Lisbon, or NYC, or San Francisco, or Boston, or Toronto, or Montreal, or Sydney, or Melbourne ... to name a few).

OTOH I'm very glad that those who have this bizarre liking for London prefer to stay there -- I'm sure it makes the rest of the country much more pleasant for the rest of us :-)

Julian

On a point of information, did the fact those two sold their own home and moved into the development mean that they would avoid paying capital gains tax when it was sold as it had become their principal residence ? (Assuming, of course, that they made a level of profit which would make CGT applicable - far from likely in practice)

I agree with a previous comment that the people I felt most sorry for were the "friends" who had to put up with those two for three weeks. Grim.

I'd like to know how Nigel got on with that very attractive French lady. She was gorgeous! Probably the only reason I kept watching.

MM

You're young, yes?

MM

Okay, I stand corrected. I like Greeks. I shared an office with a beautiful Greek girl once. Didn't care much for this one, though.

MM

God, now I'm confused! I've just been told that she was Greek! Was she or wasn't she? I'm retracting my apology temporarily.

MM

Small post offices have been made so difficult to run that they have all but disappeared. So the village small shop plus post office is no longer viable in many (most?) places.

Won't have long to find out, 'A Curry in France' is published at the beginning of February presumably to tie in with the upcoming series.