Self-taught property developer Sarah Beeny offers advice to a young Norwich couple renovating an ex-council house in an attempt to make £7,000.
A London couple gamble their savings on developing a two-bedroom ex-council flat. Property developer Sarah Beeny is on hand to offer top tips.
Terry and Sarah endeavour to transform their £159,000 bungalow by converting the roof space into additional bedrooms and extending the back of the house to form a spendid dining room looking out onto the spacious gardens. Is it possible to achieve a £300,000 asking price with a £20,000 budget?
Sarah Beeny offers advice to an actor who hopes to make a substantial profit by developing a two-bedroomed house in east London. Has he chosen the right location?
A single woman aims to make money developing her west London flat for the corporate-let market. Property developer Sarah Beeny offers top tips.
A couple invest in an old dairy in Lincolnshire, which they plan to sell for a large profit. Property developer Sarah Beeny offers advice. This is the episode that was revisited in S09E06.
Presenter and self-taught property developer Sarah Beeny returns for a second series and follows ten homeowners from around the country as they set out to develop their properties, make money and progress up the property ladder. In the first programme, Sarah joins Jonathan from London who has bought a house in Sydenham for £127,500 and set aside a budget of £20,000 to fully renovate it with the aim of making a substantial profit. However, he soon realises that his budget is woefully optimistic as unexpected costs arise, including a complete refit of the roof. As costs mount and funds dwindle, things aren't looking good. Can Sarah's guidance help Jonathan to finally turn his property into profit?
Follows Katie Basham (aged 28) and her attempts to renovate a dilapidated five bedroom, two-storey maisonette in North London, with plans to rent it out.
A couple in Coventry try to renovate a three-bedroom ex-council house. It needs new windows, central heating a new bathroom and a new kitchen, but they have only a £1000 budget. To make things worse, during the programme they both find themselves at risk of redundancy.
Meet 32 year old Sian Astley. She just bought this house in Manchester which she plans to renovate and sell-on for a cool 20 thousand pound profit. Sian, has chosen a 3 bedroom Victorian house in Chorlton. It has hardly been touched in 30 years and it wouldn't take much for Sian to spruce it up and cash in on a healthy profit. Sian only has 15 thousand pounds budget and no room for contingency to rewire, install central heating, plaster the walls, new kitchen, new bathroom and remove some walls... If everything goes as planned she hope to walk away with a 20k pound profit.
Follows amateur property developers Nicola Tolton and Gareth Piggott and their renovation of a house in Burgess Hill, near Brighton.
In this week's episode Sarah meets 28-year-old merchant banker Tallat Mukhtar, who has bought an empty concrete shell in trendy Shoreditch, East London, which he intends to completely fit out and turn into an up-market designer two-bedroom apartment. Bought for £220,000, and with a budget of £50,000, Tallat eventually plans to sell the property on and make a whopping £100,000 profit. However, despite Sarah's advice, he takes on the roles of project manager, builder and architect, even though he has no previous experience. Tallat is convinced he can carry out the work as well as the professionals, but with a demanding full time job to hold down and just three months to complete the ambitious project, has he bitten off more than he can chew?
Sarah Beeny meets a couple of Swansea DIY enthusiasts, who bought a dilapidated cottage for £19,000 and hope to make £16,000 profit after renovation. Sarah is concerned the project is too big for such inexperienced developers and fears the girls are cutting corners and ignoring issues that could put off potential buyers.
Sarah Beeny meets a couple who have bought a large, dilapidated house in a remote village near Scunthorpe for 48,000 pounds and hope to renovate and rent it out for seven years before using it as their retirement home
Gina Reedy has turned her back on her career as an employment lawyer and bought a three bedroom house in Caterham, Surrey as her first development. She intends to live in the property with her two children and husband as she develops it; and hopes get it on the market as soon as possible. Gina intends to project manage the development and do as much work herself as possible. Despite never doing any DYI, she has given herself just 4months to get the house finished and on the market.
This week we are in Neath south Wales, to meet 23 year old Kim Maoate. Kim has taken a gamble; she gave up her job, remortgaged her home in Buckinghamshire and bought this property 170miles from her home. Having lost 4 auctions, and determined to not loose another she bough her development property site unseen. There is an awfully large amount of work to do and she has an ambitious goal of completing everything in 8 weeks with a meager budget.
IT professional Jonathan Moon has quit his job to renovate a 2nd floor two bed maisonette in south London (Battersea). With big plans to convert the home in 12weeks he learns the ins and outs of being a first time project manager.
Sarah Beeny gives advice to two sisters who've bought an art deco house in Poole, Dorset. But should they really be spending £30,000 on a pink and purple kitchen?
Sarah Beeny visits Martine Follett and Teresa Edwards who are renovating a two-up-two-down terrace in Lincolnshire with full intentions of doing all the work themselves.
Sarah Beeny meets Amiya Kagalwala and Tracey Hamilton who have risked everything on their first property development in Stanmore.
Sarah Beeny meets developers who want to turn an old TV shop into a family home for just £15,000 but half way through the renovation the cash runs out and they try to sell up.
Sarah Beeny meets Chris Cieslak who is designing his Brighton development to suit a family with two children under the age of seven.
Sarah Beeny meets a first-time developer who starts project-managing her £135,000 development in Hastings when she is six months pregnant. Needless to say tempers fray.
Sarah Beeny helps a young couple in Suffolk who plan to renovate a five bedroom Victorian house with just £12,000. Can she stop them cutting too many corners?
Sarah Beeny meets Sue Silver, an Essex mother who's determined to do up a semi-derelict two-up-two-down terrace in Chingford that she thinks could be a profitable venture.
Sarah Beeny catches up with Martin Sutherland, who has now taken on an apartment in trendy Fulham. But will he make the same mistakes as he did in West Kensington?
Sarah Beeny meets the Slater family from Treorchy in the Welsh Valleys who plan to turn three properties into a gold mine.
Sarah Beeny is in Wellingborough in the Northamptonshire commuter belt, where the developers are taking a big gamble where they could make a huge loss.
Sarah Beeny returns to Maidstone to visit Liz Rivers and Laura Sexton, window dressers who dreamt of making their fortune developing property
Sarah Beeny is in Lincolnshire revisiting Phillip and Steven, who left their successful London careers to take on a run-down barn in the middle of the Lincolnshire countryside
Sarah Beeny catches up with Jonathon Moon who almost lost everything when his debut development went from bad to worse. Since then he has tackled another project.
Two years after Lisa Fox Cooper took on her first development, Sarah Beeny goes back to Macclesfield to find out how she's getting on
Sarah Beeny revisits Mark Standing and Sharon Lennon who gave up their jobs and went into property renovation. Now on their second development, Sarah finds out how it's going for them.
Sarah Beeny goes back to see how Martin Sutherland is coping after he was so convinced he'd found the formula for making money out of developing in Earls Court.
Art deco enthusiasts Craig and Tina Young are determined to renovate a dilapidated example of the style to the highest possible standard. But will anyone in Surrey want to buy it? Meanwhile Michael Gregory and Sally Breeze are taking less of a risk by choosing to extend a family house in Clevedon. But financing it using interest-free credit cards is a nail-biting way to go about it. As the clock ticks by Sarah attempts to speed up the procrastinators, and rein in the perfectionists
Having loads of great design ideas is a good start to a career as a property developer. Trying to cram every single one of them into a tiny terrace in Salisbury is not. Katherine Church has given up a job in computers in favour of a more creative occupation, so is in no mood to have her artistic enthusiasm curbed by Sarah Beeny's sensible advice. In Leeds Sarah has the opposite problem. She needs to persuade budget-conscious ex-financial advisor John Jessop that a little bit of time and money spent on a good finish will help lift his tired bungalow into a different league.
This week Sarah helps two aspiring property developers in London. Trying to make as much money as possible from your property is one thing, but filling a house with rooms till it bursts at the seams is quite another. In Hendon, Shaffi Ahmed is convinced she can maximise her rental income by cramming ten bedrooms into a three-bedroom house, even if that means putting them in the attic, in the garage, or even in the shed at the bottom of the garden. A few miles down the road in Acton Derek Gallimore is also trying to increase his rental income by modernising and adding rooms; but will it make any difference when his house sits right on the busy A40?
Both of this week's developers are taking on listed properties, which are notoriously difficult to renovate. But developed sympathetically they can provide major returns, and this week's developers are chasing the biggest profits ever seen on Property Ladder. In Harlaxton Mark and Tammy Howard want to turn an old bakery into a desirable family home, but with a listed giant baker's oven bang in the middle of their new kitchen, this might prove a gamble too far. Meanwhile, in Dunstable, business partners Dave Hearne and Nick Holmes are also gambling on massive returns when they buy not one, but six listed houses in a ramshackle old terrace. With Sarah's help they think they can make them super modern; but is Dunstable ready for a wet room?
Getting the right location is key to making money from property. So why have two sets of first time developers picked the most awkward locations possible for their first attempts at developing? John Burrows and Jacky Copland believe they can make a really top end luxury family house out of their sprawling, run down, listed property in Bourne, Lincolnshire. They've got the budget, and they've got the vision. But they refuse to listen to Sarah when she tells them that no front door, with access possible only via a commercial car park, is going to severely limit their market. One hundred and eighty-five miles away in Lancashire Simon Gore and Paul Hilton have managed to find a property located on the busiest biker route in the country. When they can make themselves heard above the roar of the traffic, their mission is to convert an 18th-century water mill into a desirable holiday home, even though what they've bought is currently no more than two crumbling rooms and a hole in the ground where the water wheel once stood...
When you've already got a full-time job, taking on a property development is a huge extra commitment and requires nifty job-juggling. This week two sets of developers take on that responsibility, but they each have very different approaches. Julie Thomas and Lee Jones are both scientists with a love of detail so they want to do all their renovation work themselves. But a surfeit of enthusiasm coupled with zero knowledge sees them giving up every single weekend and evening for months on end as they struggle to modernise their tiny two-up, two-down in Bedfordshire. Meanwhile, in Norfolk, Heidi Sutton, the self-proclaimed "most impatient person on the planet" gets the builders in to get her bungalow renovated as quickly as possible. But she hasn't bargained on just how much work project managing alone can involve.
Marigold Charles and Joel Peters want to turn a north London property development opportunity into a profit of £150,000, but they refuse to take any advice from Sarah.
Sarah Beeny continues her mission to share her wisdom, this time with Nottingham couple Damon Marshall and Corinne Ellison, two newcomers to the property business.
Sarah Beeny has got her green hard-hat on, trying to help some aspiring property developers balance their eco philosophies with harsh business realities.
Sarah's got her work cut out helping developers in Poole and London who have given up lucrative careers to launch into property development. Ex-dentist Rebecca Lang is looking for a more flexible lifestyle and has bought a 1970s detached family home in Poole, Dorset. She's hoping to cash in on one of the country's most expensive places to live, but may have seriously underestimated what can be achieved with her budget of £150,000. Former IT sales manager David Hollingworth thinks developing full time is the way to get a better quality of life and is redeveloping a four-bed Victorian terraced house in Crouch End, North London. Sarah has concerns about his choice of finishes clashing with the period style of the property.
Sarah Beeny meets two developers, one in Brighton, the other near Ross-on-Wye, who think their dream locations mean that they've got it made.
Sarah Beeny catches up with Sian Astley in Manchester, who is seemingly unstoppable in her new career. Three years after they first met, Sian is now on her seventh property development.
Sarah Beeny returns to see whether another aspiring developer has managed to move up the Property Ladder. When Jonathan Topps started his first development in Sydenham three years ago, he consistently refused to listen to Sarah's advice about not getting too personal on a tiny budget. Showers and skylights were a particular sticking point so she can't wait to see whether either of these offending items sneak their way into his next project: this time he's trying his luck in Stroud in Gloucestershire. He's hoping to turn a very outdated three-bedroom semi into a luxurious five-bed family home; but it means a lot of work, including a three-storey extension, a loft conversion and a new garage. And just, like in Sydenham, he wants to do a lot of it himself.
Sarah Beeny's back in Felixstowe to see if Mike Horgan can continue his remarkable success story. With sheer hard graft, Mike single-handedly transformed a huge five-bed Victorian house.
Sarah Beeny offers her advice to two couples in Surrey and Clevedon, but will they listen?
Sarah Beeny travels to both West Sussex and to Hertford where two sets of parents hope to use the profit from their developments to fund college fees.
Sarah Beeny has a fiery encounter with two sets of more experienced developers, both hoping to make a whopping £100,000 profit in Northampton and Clevedon.
Sarah Beeny's really got her work cut out this week helping property amateurs develop for the very first time. Why? Because when you're used to earning big bucks, giving it up to take on the risk of trying to make profits from property is terrifying, especially when you factor in a family to feed.
Sarah Beeny's got her green hard-hat on this week, trying to help some aspiring property developers balance their eco philosophies with harsh business realities. From a "happy shower" and sunken dining pit to under-bed crystals and a colour-changing bathroom! Yup, Claire Harrigan believes a "healthy home" is what we've all been waiting for.
If you've got a view to die for and millions of pounds, then you can't go wrong, can you? Tonight Sarah Beeny meets two developers who think their dream locations mean that they've got it made. In Brighton, Myles Gilbert is investing a staggering £2 million in a huge Georgian building right on the seafront.
Sarah Beeny helps out developers in Stanmore, and in south London
Sarah gives more down-to-earth advice for property developers in Streatham and Aldershot
Sarah Beeny continues the property-for-profits series in Chiswick, west London
Bouncers Danny Smith and Sean Spencer make an unlikely pair of developers. They've taken on a Victorian terraced house and are determined to renovate it themselves on a non-existent budget.
Sarah Beeny has her hands full with one set of developers trying to squeeze three bedrooms into two tiny cottages while the others are tackling the DIY on two derelict semis themselves.
Heidi Sutton has given up her job to concentrate purely on property developing, while Julie Thomas and Lee Jones are more circumspect about continuing in the property game.
Sarah Beeny catches up with Mark and Tammy Howard, and Dave Hearne and Nick Holmes, who were all convinced they could make huge profits on tricky listed properties.
Sarah Beeny pays a call on Myles Gilbert and his marathon penthouse development on Brighton seafront and finds out about his new property venture that has cost him £5,000,000.
Sarah Beeny heads back to Harlaxton to catch up with Mark and Tammie Howard as they try to build the ultimate family home and develop a massive barn.
Sarah Beeny catches up with David and Christine Hollingworth in Crouch End, north London, as David finds out whether he really can cut it as a full-time property developer.
Sarah Beeny revisits Michael and Sally Gregory, whose 2005 Bristol property development proved profitable. Two years on, they're tackling a much harder urban location in Clevedon town centre.
In 2006, Sarah Beeney met the Fairall family, who successfully turned developing into a full-scale family business, but this time around things are not so smooth.
Sarah Beeny's back on the south coast of England to revisit Rebecca Lang who successfully took on the luxury property market and walked away with a staggering £100,000 profit in 2006.
Sarah Beeny revisits Tina and Craig Young, whose outrageous spending blew apart their budget. Once bitten, twice shy? Not a bit of it. They're back with a six-flat conversion.
Sarah returns to see if Gareth Milford has managed to survive the housing slump with his development in Herefordshire and finds out if Myles Gilbert has managed to sell his Brighton home.
Sarah Beeny is back in a brand new series of the property for profits show that aims to help novice and professional developers make the most money out of their renovations. Each week she meets two sets of developers in two different parts of the UK, but as ever, the question is: will they take Sarah's advice? In tonight's opening programme Sarah tackles two tales of parents looking for a clever way of funding their children's university fees.
Sarah Beeny continues to spread the property developing word, but will anyone ever listen to her straightforward advice? This week she has a fiery encounter with two sets of more experienced developers, both hoping to make a whopping £100,000 profit.
Tonight Sarah Beeny takes on two sets of developers who are convinced that there's easy money to be had in doing up property, but in Sarah's eyes, these guys couldn't be more wrong.
Two would-be developers take on two massive projects just as credit has well and truly crunched.
Neil Hornsey and Alison Gurr think that a lock up down a dodgy alley next to a pub and a fishmongers holds the key to their fortune in Broadstairs, Kent.
In this episode the developers have done very well out of the buy to let market during the property boom. But now they are risking everything to converting an abandoned Devon railway station which has been left to languish on the edges of Dartmoor for the past 40 years.
In this episode the amateur developers are caught right in the eye of the housing market storm. For Paul and Karen Clayton in Bristol, it’s not a case of will they make a loss on their conversion of a Grade 2 listed house, just how much?
Successful entrepreneurs Nigel Arrib and Sarah Donahue, have a romantic notion that they can make a quarter of a million pounds by creating a swanky LA pad, in the heart of a run down bit of Rotherhithe, East London.
Julie Thomas and Lee Jones are both scientists with a love of detail so they want to do all their renovation work themselves. But a surfeit of enthusiasm coupled with zero knowledge sees them giving up every single weekend and evening for months on end as they struggle to modernise their tiny two-up, two-down in Bedfordshire.
Sarah returns to Windsor to see if Patsy and John Parnell are any closer to the dream of mortgage-free living. She also meets Andy and Amanda Tindall, who are hoping a serious upgrade to a bigger house.
Sarah catches up with sisters Helen and Paula in Warnborough, where their new development scheme to split an old library into three flats is getting a bit out of control.
The Beeny is back with a brand new series of the premier property-for-profits show. The property market is still on everyone's agenda and the nation's talking point, but is there serious cash still to be made? First up, from windmills to barns us Brits are conversion crazy, but that doesn't stop them being some of the hardest developments around.
Sarah Beeny continues with more lambs to the property slaughter, and this week four people are tested to the limit with developments that are far from straightforward! London now has the most expensive property on earth and getting onto the ladder is increasingly out of people's reach - unless you take on a low-cost, high-risk development.
Sarah Benny has more down-to-earth advice for property developers and, as ever, they completely ignore her! For many people developing is a great deal more than a straight commercial venture. It's a one-off shot at a whole new existence. Matt and Jodie Turnbull's dream ticket to a fresh start is a big old Edwardian house in Streatham that needs one major overhaul.
Sarah Beeny continues the premier-property-for-profits series in Chiswick, west London, helping one couple through possibly the biggest challenge she's ever seen. Richard Chan and Isabelle Peno are digging out the entire underneath of a house and most of its garden to create a gargantuan lower ground floor.
With property prices at an all-time high, more and more people are teaming up with friends to get on the developing ladder, but is it worth the trouble? In Mansfield, bouncers Danny Smith and Sean Spencer make an unlikely pair of developers. They've taken on a Victorian terraced house and are determined to do it all themselves on a non-existent budget.
On tonight's Property Ladder Sarah catches up with dentist Michael Gregory and his wife Sally who scored a direct hit in 2005. They found a dream project with one clear and undeniable selling point: a fantastic location overlooking the Bristol Channel.
Revisiting the Fairall family in Balcombe, who continue to look for a cunning way to fund their children through university. Previously, they renovated a tired detached house, and though they ignored Sarah Beeny's advice about design - including putting the garage in the middle of the house - made a massive £83,000 profit. A year on, the latest job is much trickier.
Sarah Beeny's back on the south coast of England to revisit Rebecca Lang who successfully took on the luxury property market and walked away with a staggering £100,000 profit two years ago.
A couple who bought a three-bedroom house in Hampshire for £600,000 attempt to sell it on for a seven-figure sum. However, Sarah Beeny believes they are in the wrong part of the county for million-pound properties and their home lacks the necessary appeal, so suggests they restart from scratch. The expert also offers assistance to a couple from Royal Berkshire who want to make a 33 per cent profit.
Sarah Beeny faces a tough task as she assists two sets of couples, both first-time developers, hoping to turn a profit on a pair of properties each. Helen Simpkins and Paula Harris ambitiously attempt to squeeze three bedrooms into each of their small Victorian cottages in Wanborough, Wiltshire. Meanwhile, Chris and Amanda Hodges face a demanding DIY task in each of their large semis in Christchurch, Dorset.
A man attempts to make £77,000 on his Cambridgeshire cottage in just four months, but Sarah Beeny considers it to be one of the worst buys she's ever seen and suggests he takes his time so he can get the listings department on side. The property expert also helps a woman who is looking to split her Shropshire stately home apartment into two so she can sell one half and live in the other
Sarah Beeny revisits Tina and Craig Young, three years after they blew their budget on their first development in Burgh Heath, Surrey. They are now having another attempt at making a profit, this time with a six-flat conversion, but it becomes apparent they didn't think about planning permission before buying the property.
Sarah Beeny revisits developer Tallat Mukhtar, whose progress the programme has been following for six years, and worries he has overstretched himself in a difficult market while amassing a multi-million pound portfolio. However, the presenter is fascinated by how the man has changed over the years and he reveals the enthusiasm he has for his projects and lifestyle.
Sarah Beeny revisits Philip Martinson and Stephen Hopkinson, who featured in the first series when they gave up secure jobs for a career in property, but found it more demanding than they imagined. However, the presenter discovers the duo are very talented.
Sarah Beeny helps two aspiring developers in London. Shaffi Ahmed tries to maximise her rental income by cramming 10 bedrooms into her Hendon property. Meanwhile, Derek Gallimore opts for modernisation as well as extra space to achieve the same goal - but his work may well prove fruitless because his house is situated beside the busy A40.
Sarah Beeny offers advice to amateur property developers keen to dabble in the housing market. Here she meets Marigold Charles and Joel Peters who are attempting to turn a North London development opportunity into a large profit.
