Season 1
Selling Houses Abroad is a British docu-reality television series produced by Ricochet in which property expert Andrew Winter goes on an international rescue mission across Europe to help British homeowners who are having major problems selling their foreign properties.
The series premiered in the UK on Channel 4 on 20 March, 2007. There are 12 hour-long episodes in the series.
Selling Houses Abroad premiered in South Africa on DStv's The Home Channel on Saturday 27 September 2008, at 12h00.
Repeats
Saturdays: 20h00
Sundays: 15h00, 22h00
Synopsis
In the past 2 years the number of Britons owning second properties abroad has doubled to 800,000 and shows no sign of slowing - and with over £23-billion of British money invested in foreign property there's a lot at stake.
But as all too many people discover, their dream home in the sun can quickly become a nightmare.
Property expert Andrew Winter goes on an international rescue mission across Europe to help British homeowners who are having major problems selling their foreign properties.
In Selling Houses Abroad Andrew meets homeowners dealing with stagnating markets, property confiscation, legal battles and subsidence.
The series also reveals the results of a specially commissioned survey of 6,000 people about other foreign property nightmares, from frustrating bureaucracy to confusing property law and language difficulties.
In the first episode, Andrew travels to Europe to meet Margaret and John Cox, who sold everything they had in the UK to buy a 100 year-old farmhouse in south-west France. They renovated it themselves but now no one wants to buy it...
From Italy to Cyprus and Spain to Montenegro, Andrew leaves no stone unturned in his quest to secure that all important sale.