Dubai Dreams meets the victims of the economic crash, including the family who had to do a moonlight-flit to avoid jail and the couple auctioning their apartment for as little as a penny. Plus, there are dramatic scenes when one man jets to Dubai to confront a builder who took customers’ money and then didn’t build a thing.
Building your own house from scratch can give you the ultimate dream property and 100,000 new homes were built in Britain last year.
Location is everything when choosing a dream home, but what happens when your perfect location leaves you with a nightmare home? Homes From Hell meets the couple whose idyllic Portuguese farmhouse is going to be turned into a traffic island, the family whose neighbours have built a breezeblock wall around the back of their house and the couple whose marriage is on the rocks thanks to their dream home in Spain.
Living by the seaside appeals to many as an ideal home location. But what happens when a seaside dream turns into a nightmare? Homes From Hell meets the couple living in a caravan after their hopes of a new life in Greece turned sour and the people whose homes are crumbling into the North Sea.
Real-life stories of people's property nightmares, beginning with the north London homeowners who had to go to court when their £900,000 dream purchase was taken over by squatters. The programme also features British expats whose rebuilding of their damaged home in Andalusia was halted by the police, and a retired couple who bought a villa in Cyprus reveal how they lost their money on a crumbling wreck
Real-life stories of people's property nightmares, including a former soldier fighting a war with his builders in Cyprus, and an angler who tried to stop his cottage from flooding by raising it up on pillars - without planning permission. Plus, a family that awoke one morning to find a stream running underneath the floorboards of their Cornish cottage
Childhood sweethearts who used their retirement money to buy a villa in Madeira reveal how months after paying 295,000 euros they ended up working six days a week in a pub in Staffordshire, with their hopes of a relaxing life in tatters. Plus, the nightmare experienced by British expats whose homes on a Spanish development began to crumble as the surrounding roads buckled