You know what it's like, you go to a property auction with £100k to spend and by the end of the auction you leave without any keys to a building because the lots you loved and wanted to bid on have rocketed to beyond your financial means.
This is an experience that frequently happens to bidders at the very busy property auctions of Wales, but what none have experienced is then being given a property that they haven't even bid on to be transformed into a saleable home by the presenter of a popular TV programme.
Welcome to The Great House Giveaway, the Channel 4 property programme that gives two complete strangers who are not homeowners the chance to secure a rundown home via auction. Once selling fees, buying costs, and the renovation budget has been taken from the eventual sales price the pair split the profit and walk off into the sunset very happy. But that doesn't always happen and getting to that point within a strict timescale can be a painful process.
