Property Snakes and Ladders! (Property Ladder)

Member Name: Beanie8844

Product:	Property Ladder
Date:	25/07/09 (173 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: intersting show, Beeny is good in her role

Disadvantages: similar to many of the other property shows

'Property Ladder' or 'Property Snakes and Ladders' as it is now known is a television show dedicated to property development and is of a similar mould to 'Homes Under the Hammer.' Televised on Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 4 and presented by professional property expert Sarah Beeny, the show gives you an incite into what it is actually like to develop a property on a budget for the first time. Each episode follows two separate developers, it starts by introducing the developers so you can learn a bit about them and find out their background. You see them purchase property that is in need of some serious repair, redevelop it to whatever extent they deem sufficient on their budget and try and resell the property at the end of the episode for a profit - sounds simple enough. Throughout the show, Sarah Beeny is on hand to offer advice and support to the developers as she is vastly experienced and let's face it these guys just aren't. Quite often though they reject what she proposes and follow their own ideas and aspirations for the property inside; most of the time she is correct though, even if a little bossy at times.

I think the show is fantastic and really interesting to watch, especially when the developers start getting annoyed with Beeny as she tells them to spend more of the precious money; it's all about profit at the end of the day. Many that don't follow her advice actually go onto lose money and because of the economic state of the country at the moment and the fact that the property market has considerably lost value in the last year or so means that many of the developers are choosing to rent their properties after the redevelopment and sell later once the market has picked up again; this is ok, but rather an anticlimax at the end of the episode. Overall, it is definitely a show I would recommend, especially to those people who are interested in property and like television shows which follow their purchase etc. I know there are many shows of this nature out there at the moment, but this is definitely one of the best.

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Summary: the best property show of its kind