Why did they sell their old place if it was so perfect? No house you buy from a stranger is full of heart and feels like home. You have to bring that and live in it.

@colleenduffy1139

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they only have one kid.

@robthetruth5695

Жыл бұрын

They didn't make any sense at all!!!

@bar10ml44

Жыл бұрын

Probably money. Good offer. The more you have the harder it is.

@SexMusicPlants

Жыл бұрын

They said it was too small, 800sq ft. 🤦‍♂️

@victoriaflynn6506

11 ай бұрын

They should go back to old house and make a million pound offer 😅

I have absolutely no patience with the older couple.

@fayesouthall6604

5 ай бұрын

Too obsessed with the original house. Money no clue.

@peggydid

Ай бұрын

They think Phil is a magician!

Kirstie and Phil, you are such patient people! And, both of you are lovely!

@tolahornottolah2190

Ай бұрын

I completely agree, how do you hold your tongues. You should write a book, when retired it would be full of humorous stories. Go for it

Oxfordshire house was wonderful - if I had the cash, it'd be mine in a heartbeat.

Wow that first couple should of stayed in the house they sold … they are a nightmare

I love these programmes and am a binge watcher that's for sure. But couldn't help noticing and not for the first time , that surely it's a no a big 'no' to sit on someone's beautiful bed! And that beautiful house- mansion in many peoples eyes -wasn't appreciated by that couple, I think leave it for another family who will appreciate and love it.

There should be an option to dump the couple mid search....no one would judge Kirsty and Phil. Painful to watch 😥

How was the first couples home, the one they profess to love and was perfect, not big enough for three people?

@NYCHeartandSoul

Жыл бұрын

Very good question. And with their budget why not have extended their original house or built up into the attic. It seems that selling their old house was a mistake.

@williamegler8771

Жыл бұрын

@@NYCHeartandSoul Yes they could of added on and got the house to be exactly what they wanted. Also why did they sell the home and move into rental property? Why didn't they stay in their former home until they had found their next house?

@connie473

Жыл бұрын

It was 800 square feet, so pretty small, and they sold it for 700,000 pounds. They said it around 33 minutes in the video >.< It's obvious they cannot get a house 5 times the size for 2 adults, the kid, and mom-in-law for 1M pounds in the same area. They are very unreasonable. They want a huge yard, a MIL annex, a home office, 4 bedrooms, etc. etc. for only 40% more in price.

@muhlaynee

Жыл бұрын

It's not big enough because they're miserable and don't like one another. No house will be large enough for them

@cg9616

Жыл бұрын

Marlene this is a hugely edited show on house buying. Their relationship is their business not the focus of the show.

With this kind of mindset and attitude, may take them forever to find a right home, and their million budget will be getting less and less value in conjunction with times they have lost! Kirsty and Phil were even not to hold their breath for them, I find this was so funny :)

These picky and fussy buyers should stop buying house, they should instead buy a plot of land and build their own dream house. This will help to stop them wasting people's time.

@AFAskygoddess

Жыл бұрын

They can't afford their dream house, but they refuse to admit it to themselves.

@chalayan

Жыл бұрын

@@AFAskygoddess they should look in the mirror and know their own limits and not wasting both Phil and Kristie time.

@1rewd133

10 ай бұрын

They would never be able to decide what to build.

@carolineandrews7231

7 ай бұрын

Can you imagine the poor trades people who are given the 'privilege' to work on their place. I would run a mile!!

All of these picky couple buyers made me so happy that I don't need a silly man to buy my house and to compromise! I have been buying and building my own homes for years! Thank you God!

Makes me realise how truly lucky we were. We were out for a drive one summer evening and saw our perfect home . We weren’t even looking. We waited a year then it came on the market. We bought it that morning without even seeing inside. That was 40 years ago. We never had one regret. I believe in fate ❤

The problem with being too picky in a rising price housing market is that each month that passes, you can afford LESS house in your budget. I bought mine three years ago. Today, the price would be double and I couldn't have afforded it.

@robthetruth5695

Жыл бұрын

Same here!! in 4 years my house has tripled in Value!!! Best investment I've ever made!

@Kiinell

Жыл бұрын

So true and they've also spent tens of thousands on someone else's mortgage. What a couple of nitwits.

@dva5610

Ай бұрын

@@robthetruth5695wow where do you live?

I feel like I've just watched a fairy tale. The kind that ends "...and their spirits wander unto this day, still searching. You can hear her voice wailing cross the moors 'noooo heeeeeaaart..." 😄

@Kiinell

Жыл бұрын

Haha. "Oh nooo...the roooaad!"

@yinpheng8095

Жыл бұрын

1⁰ pp f6y7h

@TheSaBohemian

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@lysem4392

5 ай бұрын

It's mostly _his_ voice though.

You bring the feeling and energy with you wherever you go. 💖

Hilarious episode. I wonder how much longer the first couple took to finally buy a house.

@loris7660

Жыл бұрын

They’re still looking 😂

@a.z.s6679

Жыл бұрын

Legend has it, they are still looking.

@michaeltutty1540

7 ай бұрын

December, 2023, and I bet they are still looking. What the need to do is wait for their old house to come on the market, and buy that back

@user-um8kv8jq2d

7 ай бұрын

They have a 5year old grandson who isn’t needing all the space they assume. When the age gap is so grand, you forget that little ones don’t require so much. They need to buy a plot of land and build themselves a house. Even then they might not be happy with the end product. I don’t understand why they left their dream home in the first place.

@fayesouthall6604

5 ай бұрын

Probably still looking and can only find a smaller house now.

With a 1M budget, I wonder why they didn't build their perfect home?

@AFAskygoddess

Жыл бұрын

Because picky people can never attain perfection.

@bar10ml44

Жыл бұрын

They seemed to have had perfection but let it go.

@deb7518

Жыл бұрын

I thInk they were suffering from property viewer's burnout. They'd seen so many that they were rather numb to new ones.

@readingisfundamental58

Жыл бұрын

It seems to be, in Britain, that that's not a first choice for many homeowners. they seem to look, with disdain, upon new builds, as they call them, and don't like newer properties. you would think that's a great option: to buy some lovely land and custom build a beautiful home on it. but they don't do that because it lacks "character" and "a feeling". 😐

@ThisPaintingLife

7 ай бұрын

@@readingisfundamental58 That's not it. It's the fact that it's very hard to find land to build on and very hard to get planning permission. People from other countries don't understand that

I lived adjacent to the M25 in a similar sized plot and house for 7 years. After the first few days you don't even notice the road noise.

@lysem4392

5 ай бұрын

Same. I live on a main artery in a large city. Most of my rooms face the back anyway, where you can't heat any noise at all.

Buy a house for the next few years while you keep looking, instead of continuing to pay another persons mortgage. If it takes you another three years to find a home, you might not be able to afford it by then bc you'll have spent six years of your mortgage payments, paying for somebody else's house.

As tedious as they were, I felt sorry for the older couple. In particular, the husband.Therapy sessions might help him to unlock the deeper reason why he can't let go of or move on from that first house. Talk about grief! Lucky for him there's plenty of time and money to figure it out. I often wonder what goes through the minds of the people selling these properties as they watch their homes being featured!1

That Landing at 28:25 with the delicious window and dynamic balustrade is fabulous - so spacious.

@michaeltutty1540

7 ай бұрын

I agree. A beautiful home. I would have snapped that up in a heartbeat.

That older couple needs to buy a lot and build the house they want. They are bonkers.

@ThisPaintingLife

7 ай бұрын

You're not British are you? We don't have 'lots' for sale

@RandomJane104

7 ай бұрын

@@ThisPaintingLife I am not. You can't buy land and get permission to build on it there? Your property laws are whacky.

@tracy419

6 ай бұрын

I think it's more about a lack of availability. Not much empty land in the areas they are looking.​@@RandomJane104

It seems to me watching these kinds of shows that everyone wants the right to drive a car but no one will accept the consequences for that right: air and noise pollution; destruction of green spaces to build roads, car parks etc. Inequity too. Rich people can drive their cars but afford to live away from the noise of other people's.

Knock down the garage, make a drive, build a garage further back if needed. Make a new entrance to the house on the side. Traffic problem solved.

Ian is someone you will never be able to please. My question is why did they sell their house?

@thehungrygoldfish

7 ай бұрын

It was already mentioned lol

I've just forwarded the vid with the older couple.

Back gardens into a hill can be dug out to make a flat garden with drainage, creating a wind breaking retaining wall behind.

I hope Kirstie and Phil make enough money from the show to compensate for all the work they do for couples who reject the help they received when they don't buy.

@larrypicard8802

Ай бұрын

Phil has an estimated worth of 20 million pounds.

The 1st couple are never going to be happy. The fellow seems bored, nothing makes him happy. Sure hope nothing less than perfect happens to them. Too bad, shows you that money does not bring happiness.

I would hate to think that someone viewing my house was sitting on my bed!

@padraiggillon

Жыл бұрын

Thought the same. Arse off my duvet!

@6360carolyn

Жыл бұрын

Funny I thought the same thing.

@bjbrown

Жыл бұрын

I would never sit on anyone's bed and I certainly wouldn't want anyone on my bed! Why do they do that? I'll just get a glass and a plate and help myself to the fridge, I don't like that picture there, and I don't like this house either. What's up with these people?

@thetruthisthelight0910

Жыл бұрын

The way I am squeamish and picky about dirt and germs-- not saying there is anything dangerous-- I would not want to sit on the bed . How rude and tacky.

The couple who sold their "perfect" house because a child was born seems extreme, particularly if they hadn't found another house. At 33:05, we finally hear that the "perfect" house was 800 square feet. So, what we were shown at the beginning of this episode was misleading, because that house did NOT look like a one-bedroom house, but certainly sounds like it was. As for their "search", if you've been house hunting for 2 years with a million-pound budget, it's time to admit you do not want to find a house. Even 20 years ago, you could go to an agent, give them your budget and your "wants" and they would find you several possibilities within your parameters. I understand wanting to buy a house that has "that feeling", but if you spend 2 years and haven't found it, there's more to the story. The wife looks miserable, and they both have unrealistic ideas of "quiet". I can only imagine that it's gotten worse for them since 2009. At least the son would be well out of it now and at university, wherever he grew up! For me, house #2 (the Georgian) would have been a "yes"; I cannot imagine what the price of that house is today (2023)!

Mr. & Mrs. Impossible Ian Pickiness are going to find that their money is going to buy them less and less with every month that passes.

@thehungrygoldfish

Жыл бұрын

Well, they were looking in 2009. Prices were still falling back then.

Better then them than I. The other couple are in a dream world, I hope their comfortable their. ⭐️⭐️⭐️🥰🤗

Wondering if the couple with the one million dollar budget is still wondering the streets of England looking for a place. Past memories can dim one's future accomplishments.....

Surely I’m not the only one who doesn’t care if Ian ever finds a house he likes! And HOW do they have a five-year old?!

@thehungrygoldfish

5 ай бұрын

It’s called sex, hon.

That house was stunning to find another like that for that budget

"And it will be found in the end." Sure, if you increase your budget to 2.5 million. God. How delusional.

The older couple seem to be very angry about having to sell their old home. I think that there is a sad story behind all

@thehungrygoldfish

Жыл бұрын

Angry is the wrong word, especialy because it was already explained why they sold it. The house was too small for them, and they don't seem to be willing to do any work.

Bigger isn't always better. They should have just taken that million dollars and bought back their old house. Bet the buyers would have sold it back in a heart beat and enjoyed the profit!

That one couple should have bought back their old house and put an addition on

Wrong title and description. You got the episodes confused because both episodes feature a couple named Sarah and Ian.

my goodness, they the 1million couple dont want much. And at this rate, their kids will be grown and gone by the time they find the house they want - or buy their own house back. So much picky.

@ElCid48

Жыл бұрын

He looks like King Alfred in the "Last Kingdom" series. He lacked initiative too. A boring character.

This was so sad. The older couple both look like they were in mourning but it is not for a human but a building. They looked at huge homes compared to what they had with a couple with beautiful gardens and land. I felt bad because while they were so centred on mourning what they sold they were not centred on the months going by and their million pounds losing weight and thus losing its buying power. While mourning the brick and mortar they sold they were left joyless such a shame as every day is so precious as no one knows what tomorrow with bring so grab it and squeeze every bit of joy out of it. I felt really bad for Phil as he showed them some lovely big and beautiful homes but they had yet to bury the home they left behind. 😟

10:22 that is the single dumbest thing I have ever heard anyone say. I genuinely cannot believe someone could view that beautiful home and gorgeous, huge land and think "eww the elevation isn't sloped how i would build it, PASS". Imagine being that spoiled! To poopoo the elevation!

@revagreen2303

Ай бұрын

They didn’t ever have the $$$ they claimed to have!!

I wonder after 14 years where the story went…

I'll show Phil mine, lol...I adore him, lol

Million Pound Ian, is a Million Pound pain in the Keister!

I need to know if the couple with the kid are still waiting for their unicorn or have they accepted reality.

@BritGirlJay

Жыл бұрын

Good enough should have been their mantra even being picky (I think I'm picky). Always wanted an entrance hall, never got one in any property, and a huge kitchen (ditto didn't get one). Trade offs for me have been large yard, and large basement, and enough bedrooms and bathrooms in a good location. If it was possible for us to extend our current home I'd do it for a bigger kitchen but it's not sadly.

God bless you realtors! I needed a drink after watching that one 😂

Maybe they could offer the new owners an irresistible $$$ and then build on a new addition?

@juliansydney9819

5 ай бұрын

But the house was grade 2 listed FFS

I agree with poodlegirl... let them find whatever they are looking for themselves, would have told them go find it yourself along time ago. they are too much of perfectionists both couples need a reality check...

@thehungrygoldfish

Жыл бұрын

The other couple was fine because they did end up compromising on the location.

That couple have spent 30 grand one someone else's mortgage and still not bought a place. I think they were trolling. They haven't got the money to buy a place at all. That's why the first house is gone and they are still renting.

@thetruthisthelight0910

Жыл бұрын

Obviously ,they've been vetted for the show, and do have a successful marketing company . they obviously have the money they are just picky and fussy.

I respect their feelings, opinions et al, BUT I wanted to shake their heads together, I really did. So up their backsides with feeling and this and that....why the hell did they sell their perfect home or did they need the money????? Move on people.

" I can hear the road!" Omg ..🤦‍♀️ 🙄🙄🙄

I'd sell everything I own to lbuy that listed house

Those on limited money expect too much

I'd love to see Phil's. xoxo The older 2 are INSANE !!! WTF !!!

She needs to address her anxiety about having to be in Ware next to mummy. She’s a grown woman now. I think.

@poodlegirl55

Жыл бұрын

She wants a free baby sitter.

@carolinewiggins2803

Жыл бұрын

They mentioned why. Childcare.

@deannakinsman6790

Жыл бұрын

Don't they have childcare/daycare? I feel like they EXPECT grandparents to babysit...jmo

I'm guessing their son will be all grown up before they find anything meanwhile they are spending A LOT on rent. My daughter asked me what they were missing in their personal lives that they had to look to a house to fulfill?

@amyholman354

8 ай бұрын

Earlier, it was noted that when they had a child they sold their old house. They are missing their younger selves.

@peggydid

Ай бұрын

Maybe they just wanted an outing!

Omg picky picky picky

That picky couple will end up buying each rooms in care home😂😂😂

***Drops ice bag on Phil's head and hands him a whiskey!*** Lie down Phil! Reality vs.The Dream...dreams are hard to give up, but dreams aren't meant to be real. If they were, we'd be walking around in a mist with heavenly choirs playing harp music! I think people without preconceived ideas are easier to please. I might be wrong.

I am really confused. Why did they sell their beloved home, because they had one child? Its very strange. All they talk about is their love for that home. Tbh nothing will make them happy, because they are hanging on To the dream of when they were happier in life. That is what they remember is happy memories. And nothing else can make you happy if you arent happy within.

@thehungrygoldfish

5 ай бұрын

It was too small and they don’t seem like the renovation type.

When did Balham shift into Berkshire??

@resnonverba137

Жыл бұрын

I think it was during the Great Storm of '87...

@paulsheridan1

Жыл бұрын

@@resnonverba137 Remember it well. My family moved house that week!

@resnonverba137

Жыл бұрын

@@paulsheridan1 Intentionally? ;)

@paulsheridan1

Жыл бұрын

@@resnonverba137 Excellent!!

The first couple are so stuck up...why don't they just build a house from scratch 🙄

This show always reminds me of why I don't live in the uk anymore. People are dreadful

The older couples should do some viewings before selling just to get some senses before it becomes too late. Once the house is sold, its hard to reverse.

The title is wrong, not the Balham area!

Sarah and Ian need a serious reality check. He especially, keeps insisting the house 'is out there' that ticks every single box and is within their budget.

the serial renters - are they still optimistic about finding a home now?

I really want Mike Leigh to make a movie involving Sarah and Ian

@EyeByBrian

Ай бұрын

😂😂👏🏻

Can't help but wonder why Sarah & Ian didn't add to their former, MUCH beloved house and maybe freshen decor. I realize may not be allowed by local regulations but that really perplexes me.

Football and gormless always seem to make such good bedfellows.

@carolinewiggins2803

Жыл бұрын

That's not very nice!

@resnonverba137

Жыл бұрын

@@carolinewiggins2803 Yet it is accurate.

@carolinewiggins2803

Жыл бұрын

@@resnonverba137 Would you say it to their face though? That is the question.

@resnonverba137

Жыл бұрын

@@carolinewiggins2803 Should be safe enough. Many wouldn't understand what gormless meant :)

@carolinewiggins2803

Жыл бұрын

@@resnonverba137 It's a splendid British word, I must admit. I must now go and look up the etymology.

Can anyone tell me why so many of these homes in England have sinks in the bedrooms? Thanks!

@juliansydney9819

5 ай бұрын

For washing. Before people had daily baths and indoor toilets. You washed your face and maybe a few other areas. Morning shower done

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!

Houses were built long ago with small rooms with fireplaces and coal fires. Now we have central heating and want bigger rooms. Look for a modern house in that case....

Sarah and Ian Morgan-Freeman ugh. Will they ever be satisfied ?

The 1pounders are unrealistic!

Looking at that second million dollar house on 3/4 of an acre but looking like a huge plot all the way around the house, I wonder, are British acres bigger than American ones? Or is the plot size in addition to the 'peoprty' (house) area? Or are these camera people just amazing at making small yards look huge?

@thetruthisthelight0910

Жыл бұрын

Area size is universal it may differ in how we describe it : km ,acres, miles , for a competing similar example, but it's the same.

@carlac4407

10 ай бұрын

An acre has the same size in England and in the USA. It's about 4.046m2

@janetcormack923

22 күн бұрын

Watching it again, I was wrong. It was only 'a third of an acre', half the size of our place, yet it has that enormous house, looks to be at least twice the size of ours (32' x 40' footprint) and lawn and outbuildings, and plantings and all. I just don't see how they fit all that onto 1/3 of an acre! It's amazing! Having the house literally on the lot line helps some (we have to be at least 5' off here) but it's still amazing. Or, is just the garden, just the grassy area, subtracting, somehow, the footprint of each building, the one third acre?

Ugh.... some people are impossible to please

Are we really casually ignoring that this guys name is Morgan Freeman?

Definition of pompous? *that man's photo*

Eight hundred square feet and they sold it for 700,000 pounds?!?!? That's an apartment in the US, it's TINY, and £700,000? Incredible. Folks, after two days you stop hearing road noise. Get over it.

@sarahsmyth5383

Жыл бұрын

This was 12 years ago

@barbieholicable

Жыл бұрын

@@sarahsmyth5383 I bet you they are still looking.

By the time they find their home, they won't need as much room as their son will have left the nest😂😂😂😂😂 I do understand though. I could never go with a resale and have always gone with new build so I cld get exactly what I wanted.😏😏😏 Maybe a lot easier to do though in Canada...

the million dollars: the husband is "addicted to window shopping", the wife along for the ride

It has nothing to do with Balham

Is there a reason they couldnt just hire a digger & level the hill behind the house? I don't have a £1.2M budget & even i could do that...

@juliansydney9819

5 ай бұрын

Because then you’ve got to build retaining walls, and they’re very tricky. I wouldn’t do it

I think if he could, Ian would go back to his original house and extend it. I don't know why he didn't!

Hubby’s a snob and unrealistic. If I had 1 million pounds!

I think the first couple was invited to the show for the exact same reason the first house was shown to the second couple, basically if you are so constipated in your head, you will rent till you die hahaha

The younger couple want to live in a home similar to their parents in an expensive area at a peanut budget. The older couple are just snobbish because (a) they shouldn’t have sold their perfect house. (b) they are snobbish as they are after a show house to show off to others, not for them to have a contented life in… because what matters = is it good enough for others & our neighbours to go ‘wow posh’

What a pain the husband is with the bigger budget. Controlling. Unflinching. Poor wife.

Bukld acwaterfall tgst will cut down on some of that road noice

@catherineleslie2582

Жыл бұрын

I hate spell check. Build a waterfall, that will cut down on the road noice

@juliansydney9819

5 ай бұрын

@@catherineleslie2582build a waterfall? Obviously joke solution 😂

The older lady seemed so sad, and they were both just so entrenched and utterly ridiculous. Dude they've been looking 43 years and they still just cannot compromise and their money is just dwindling. Madness.

The picky older couple just wanted their old house and no other. Unrealistic

People with a million dollars or pounds seem to think the whole world should crawl to them on its knees. They tend to be entitled and arrogant from what I've seen. After all - a million pounds doesn't go that far in the Home Counties, and 2 million is a joke in Central London. The period house I grew up in in the Midwestern U.S. would easily be worth over 1 million in England. The husband needs to get over himself and face the fact that 1 million isn't that much in the location he wants. However, millionaires are the hardest people to find property for because they're just using Phil and Kirsty as servants to check out the market for them.

Why do they always expect the childcare to be included? I wouldn’t want to look after the grandkids . I have a life of my own.

None of these people are looking in balsam, contrary to the description

Therapy is getting the Agents to Kiss the Million-Pound Budget between the Cheeks! They never intend to buy, they just want to be Loved for having a Big Budget! :)

@thehungrygoldfish

Жыл бұрын

Except they've been looking for a house way before they got onto the show. So they do actually want to buy a house. They're just picky.

That older bloke has no intention of finding anywhere , non at all . He wants out with all the dolla I think