Series from 2017
| Genres: | Kids, Documentary, Special Interest |
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We are a nation obsessed with climbing the property ladder. More and more people are putting their cash and backs into property developing for profit. Climbing The Property Ladder follows 12 developers from all over the UK who did just that.
In tonights show we meet Mary who is ploughing her life savings and reduancy money into a rundown Yorkshire back to back cottage in the hope of making an impressive 25-thousand-pound profit. Working alongside a head builder who must sometimes which she wasnt there, its a battle against the odds from start to finish
Pensioners and best friends Chris and Liz are using some of their pension pot to renovate a house in Preston in the hope of making a profit. Serial developers Max and Bex start work on a sixth property.
First time property developer Cate and her financee Nikki are looking to boost their pension pot they carry out a high risk strategy by pouring all of Cate's life savings into a rundown house they don?t even own. With Cate's money on the line, life throws a curve ball which results in Cate having to project manage from her sickbed. Will her dream of making a œ200,00 profit turn into a nightmare?
Tonight, two developers, worlds apart, but with one thing in common - they seem to have bitten off more than they can chew. In Wales, Rebecca, a 26-year-old University Lecturer has a get rich quick scheme to save her from Generation Rent. She buys a wreck in the Welsh Valleys and pulls it apart brick by brick. But putting it back together is a lot harder than it looks and at one point the walls are literally tumbling down. She gets engaged on short break away from the rubble, and miraculously she make a profit margin that could more than pay for her wedding
With house prices out of most peoples? reach, ex Marines Matt and Rich are pooling money from friends and family to boost their spending power. They also take on 2 high interest loans. Spending over a million pounds in 6 weeks on two London houses, it?s not surprising they get strung out when both projects fall off the rails. It?s testing times for Matt and Rich as every week lost costs them just under œ2,000 in loan repayments alone and they have to take one of their houses back off the
Ex city banker, Sara Yates, takes on the London auction rooms in a bid to become a full time property developer but she has lots of competition. With no city banker salary to fall back on, Sara sets her sights on a 2 Bed Streatham project and hopes to do as little as possible to make a much as possible. Can a lick of paint and some new curtains decorate Sara in profit, or will she be left yearning for her old city bankers salary?
