Property Snakes and Ladders(2001–)

Sydenham

Recently divorced, Jonathan Topps had been forced to live in his friend’s spare room for 6 months and was itching to get back onto the property ladder. With London prices so high, he had decided to embark upon a new career as a property developer to help him achieve the house of his dreams, and hoped a 3 bed Victorian terrace in Sydenham would be his first success. Even though he planned to do the majority of the work himself, his £20,000 development budget seemed optimistic, particularly as he’d bought the property without even the most basic survey.

Crouch End

Katie Basham was a first time buyer in her late 20s and like many people her age, desperate to get onto the property ladder. With London house prices out of reach, her solution was to split the purchase 50/50 with her dad. With his help, she decided to tackle a run down 5-bed maisonette above a bookie in London’s trendy Crouch End with the idea of creating a flat share. She would live in one of the rooms, and cover the mortgage by letting out the others for a total income of £400 a week.

Coventry

Dan Gordon was desperate to get on the property ladder, but couldn’t afford the high prices in London. So, with the help of his girlfriend Rowena Walker, he decided to invest his savings in an unmodernised, three bedroom, ex council property in Coventry which he planned to renovate and sell on for a huge profit. Dan only had £1000 savings, but on this small sum, he managed to raise a 120% mortgage in which to fund the development.

Manchester

Sian Astley is a confident young businesswoman who wants to make some serious money from property developing. Sian already had some experience of doing up houses. She and her last boyfriend often moved house and renovated each property they lived in along the way.But this time she was on her own and developing purely for profit. To realise her dream, she bought a three bedroom Victorian house in Chorlton, a suburb of Manchester for £102,000.

Maidstone

Best friends, Liz Rivers and Laura Sexton have been on the ultimate shopping trip. They went to an auction and came away with a run-down two-bedroom house in Maidstone for £90,000. They hope this house will make them a huge £22,000 profit. But they bought it without a survey and have absolutely no property developing experience, so is it just a matter of time before they come seriously unstuck?

Burgess Hill

Nicola Tolton and Gareth Piggott have been bitten by the property developing bug. Last year they renovated and sold their home making an impressive £45,000 profit. They decided to invest this money in another project that they hope will take them towards a mortgage free life. The property in question is a run-down three-bedroom detached house in Burgess hill, near Brighton. They have given themselves just six months to develop it and sell it on for a huge profit.

Shoreditch

Merchant banker, Tallat Mukhtar sank his life savings into an empty shell in Shoreditch, East London. His plan was to transform it into a trendy two-bed loft apartment. Tallat had absolutely no experience, yet he took on the roll of builder, architect and project manager. He planned to spend three months fitting it out and then sell it on for a massive £100,000 profit.

Norwich

Simon and Caitlin Eisenmann want to climb the property ladder and be able to buy the house they are currently renting. They're £7K short and decide to buy an unmodernised property. They plan to renovate the property and sell it for a profit of £7K - all in just 12 weeks.

Bermondsey

Sarah Beeny is offering tips and advice to Jill and Steve, who plan to refurbish their two-bedroom council flat in Bermondsey and let the property.

Tonbridge

Terry and Sarah are renovating their bungalow in Tonbridge, Kent. They plan to add a "Garden Room" type extension to the back of the house which will significantly increase the size of the kitchen and draw attention to the huge back garden, and also extend into the roof to create two further bedrooms.

Plaistow

As an actor Stuart needs to generate a second income to support himself between jobs. Having made a small amount of money on his last home, he has decided to try his hand at property developing and has bought a two bedroom Victorian cottage in Plaistow, east London.

Chiswick

Melany is refurbishing a flat in Chiswick which she plans to corporate let.

Aberdare

Sarah joins first-time developers Patrick and Vanessa from Aberdare, South Wales, who provide an example of how not to do it. They have re-mortgaged their own home to buy two cottages at auction that they've never seen before and are in an area they don't know. They plan to knock them together into one four-bedroom house. After buying them for the bargain price of £25,000, Patrick and Vanessa have set aside a budget of £12,500 to fully renovate the house, with the aim of making a profit of £15,000. Sarah is staggered to see the terrible condition of the houses and to hear that Patrick and Vanessa plan to do all the technical work themselves - even though they have no experience. Can Sarah's guidance help the couple to eventually turn their property into profit?

Macclesfield

Lisa Fox-Cooper is passionate about decorating and very bored with her high paid high powered job in IT. Her dream is to change career and become a full time property developer. Lisa’ pinned all her hopes on a small 3 bedroom house on a large estate in Macclesfield. She intends to transform it from a bland beige box into something that will really stand out from the rest using her very personal design ideas. But are rose petal and leaf skeletons stuck to the wall really going to help her sell or has she gone too far?

Market Harborough

Sarah meets next-door neighbours Jane and Jamie from Market Harborough who have just lost their jobs and put everything on the line to make their first property developing project work. Thankfully, the house they've chosen looks like a good bet as it could get away with new fixtures and fittings and a lick of paint. However, Jane's got much bigger ideas including moving doors and walls, and knocking through rooms. They plan to do all the work themselves even though Jamie worked as a labourer for a few months nearly 20 years ago and Jane's only ever designed clothes. Have they bitten off more than they can chew?

Caterham

Gina Reedy sold the family home and invested over £400,000 pounds in her first development. She intends to live on site with her husband and children while she project manages the build, but she has no idea what she's let them in for. As the chaos ensues, Gina looses control of the development and the budget until this project comes closer and closer to crisis.

Neath

From the age of 13, Kim Maoate knew she wanted to be a property developer. Now, ten years later, her dream has come true. Kim's given up her lucrative job in IT, re-mortgaged her home in Buckinghamshire and bought a wreck 170 miles away in South Wales. Which is where her problems begin. She bought the house without seeing it, she paid far much too much and it needs much more work than she ever imagined. Kim's planning to do most of the work herself, with the help of a friend, but she has never done anything like it in her life. A week into the project, her friend still hasn't shown up and the costs are starting to rise.

Battersea

This week Sarah Beeny meets Jonathan Moon, who has turned his back on a lucrative career in IT to become a full time developer. But Jonathan's plans for a high tech, high spec bachelor pad go off the rails when he starts building works without his neighbours permissions. With works at a complete standstill for months Jonathan is forced to sell his sports car and rent out his flat to complete the project

Nottingham

Sarah Beeny meets first time developers Alex and Vonny Shelley, who intend to transform a run down mid-terrace house into a modern family home, spending as little money as they can possibly manage. In fact their entire budget is only £5,000 and doesn't have anything in it for building work or labour, which they hope will be done by friends.

Earls Court

Sarah Beeny meets first-time developer Martin Sutherland. He plans to convert a run down three-bedroom London flat into a luxury five-bed apartment in the hope of filling it with high-flying corporate clients. But his budget is too small and so are the bedrooms, for what Martin's got in mind at least.

Taunton

Paul Dare wanted a challenge to take his mind off the break-up of his marriage - and a challenge he has found. The Victorian house he has bought in Taunton, Somerset, is a house with a difference - it has no square rooms and is so structurally unsound that no mortgage company would lend him any money until he got the roof fixed.

Richmond

Sarah Beeny tackles a development in Richmond, Surrey, where Joanna Stamatis and Brian Walden have very big designs for a tiny two up, two down cottage. They want to rip the insides out and completely restructure it, in order to make a massive £106,000 profit. It's a huge job, and combined with Joanna's plans for Moroccan, Japanese and New England themes, plus her expensive tastes, Sarah's got a challenge ahead of her. She's got to convince them to keep this project as simple and as cheap as possible, or else they risk losing money.

Chingford

Sarah meets Sue Silver, a glamorous Essex mother of three who has given up her job as a pharmacy assistant to move into property developing as a way of clearing her debts and funding a more affluent lifestyle.

Wellingborough

This week's developers think they've found the next property hotspot: Wellingborough in the Northamptonshire commuter belt. But they're taking a big gamble - even playing poker to win free labour from local builders.

Treorchy

Like thousands of other amateur developers, the Slater family believe the Welsh Valleys are the place to make money from property. But Sarah Beeny isn't so sure that buying three properties at auction is a good idea, especially when you can't even manage to find a builder for the first one.

Macclesfield Revisit

So where did those rose petals come from then...?

Earls Court Revisit

Martin Sutherland was convinced he'd found the formula for making money out of developing: take an average three-bed, one bath flat, then squeeze in two more bedrooms and another bathroom, renovate to high spec and rent it out for top dollar to west London's high paid twentysomethings. After 18 months dealing with late rent, difficult tenants and fixing everything from the toilet seats to the door handles, you'd have thought he'd have changed has plan... but not Martin. Sarah Beeny returns to find out why.

Winchmore Hill Revisit

Mark Standing and Sharon Lennon were never short of confidence. Now they hope to make a staggering profit on their second development. Sounds great, but will they get their asking price and will the last year and a half will be worth the trouble?

Poole

The object of their affection is a four bedroom 1930s art deco house in Poole, Dorset and they are about to embark on the biggest spending spree of their lives. Yet they set off without an architect, a surveyor or, indeed, any plans. Making it up on the hoof seems to be the order of the day.

Balcombe & Hartford

Sarah Beeny guides two families who believe property development will make them enough money to send their children to university with a bit of cash to spare. A perfect plan or a recipe for disagreement and disaster?

Northampton & Bristol Beach

In this week's edition Sarah has a fiery encounter with two sets of more experienced developers, both hoping to make a whopping £100,000 profit. Sarah has plenty of help to offer, but are our couples too proud to listen?

Aylesbury & Ewell

Tonight Sarah 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. Can she help them avert a disaster?

Harlaxton & Dunstable Revisited

Sarah Beeny catches up with Mark and Tammy Howard, and Dave Hearne and Nick Holmes, who were all convinced they could make the largest profits ever seen on Property Ladder out of tricky listed properties. Their developments proved to be anything but simple, but did that put them off developing for life? Not a chance...

Brighton & Ross Revisited

The properties in this episode are very different, but they're both in stunning locations. Their developers could reap serious money from the trend of people moving out of cities in search of a more relaxed lifestyle, but with such unique properties come big risks…

Poole & Crouch End Revisited

This week's Property Ladder sees two developers going for it having ditched their day jobs to become property developers. But was it a wise move to put their livelihoods on the line? Sarah is on hand to try and rescue the developers from financial ruin...

Greenwich & Strood

This week's show has two developers working on a house in London's Olympic regeneration zone, and a couple whose dream is to renovate a barge. With some unusual ideas, it's lucky Sarah is on hand to steer the ship in the right direction.

Islington

Not many people would turn down the chance to make £150,000 profit, but that's what Marigold Charles and Joel Peters do with their flat in Islington, north London.

Nottingham and Brighton

This week both sets of developers are in their 20s and neither are letting a lack of money or experience stop them having a go at developing. But super tight budgets combined with unseasoned instincts means that they're also taking huge risks.

Poole and Crouch End

This week both partners are taking a big gamble on a new career in property developing. They've given up high earning jobs to pursue what they think is a better life in property. But will they find it harder than they might have assumed?

Bow and Surbiton

The two developers in this episode are not only looking to make money, but also hoping to make a difference to the environment. But they’ve both chosen rather unlikely properties to make their statements...

Brighton and Ross-on-Wye

The properties in this episode are very different, but they're both in stunning locations. Their developers could reap serious money from the trend of people moving out of cities in search of a more relaxed lifestyle, but with such unique properties come big risks…

Felixstowe Revisited

18 months ago, Mike Horgan and Laura Archer took on a large house in Felixstowe on a tiny budget. It might have been hard work, but they weren’t put off developing. But while their new project is much smaller, it has its own big challenges...

Norfolk Revisited

Scientists Julie Thomas and Lee Jones had a tiny two-up two-down in Hitchin. With a low budget and a lot of naïve enthusiasm, they didn’t have the first clue about what they should do with the house to maximise its potential. In the Norfolk Broads, dress shop owner Heidi Sutton bought her parents’ 1930s bungalow. But running both a business and a site at the same time is hard to do, and Heidi's spur of the moment decisions tended to let her down.

Elm & Wysall

Tonight I’m meeting two sets of developers who have fallen for the old world appeal of two very different properties. But they do have one trait in common: they’re about as far away as you can get from being successful 21st century homes.

Leatherhead & Battersea

Newport & Brentford

Shere & Bethnal Green

Henley & Diss

Broadstairs & Thetford

Tavistock

Bristol & Faversham

Southwark Sausage Factory

Milford & Gilbert

Davenport-Hewitt & Patel

Parnell & Tindall

Bishop's Waltham and Windsor

In a credit crunchingly volatile market Sarah's back, following two epic builds in Bishop's Waltham and Windsor. When money’s tight all round it pays to get the most bang for your buck, but does adding square footage always add value?

Christchurch and Wanborough

We've crunched up all our credit, the market's got serious jitters and you'd think novice property developers would be pulling back. Not a bit of it! In this week's Property Ladder, The Beeny has her hands full with two sets of first-timers taking on not one, but two properties each.

Haslingfield and Market Drayton

This week Sarah follows Robert, who's bought a listed cottage in Haslingfield, and Diane, who's converting part of a stately home in Market Drayton. But what qualities do you need to manage a good redevelopment - and have these two amateur developers got what it takes?

Clevedon & Surrey Revisited

Mike and Sally's first development went so well, they built on their success to go straight on to their second. But Tina and Craig Young's first go on the property ladder wasn't so successful. Now, despite making a loss last time, they're launching themselves into a massive six-flat conversion. Will their second development be as disastrous as their first?

Shoreditch Revisited

Property Ladder has been following the progress of developer Tallat Mukhtar for six whole years and now the Beeny's back to see if he's managed to fulfil his dream of hitting the big time.