Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Tom and Fiona Butcher hunt for a Glasgow flat and a home in the Scottish countryside - complete with a potter's studio - on a budget of £285,000. During their search, however, the couple fall in love with a baronial mansion that is well over budget and are forced to decide whether to change their plans
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Bradford couple Ruth Chenery and Ian Collett look for their ideal flat in Birmingham so Ruth can avoid lengthy daily commuting. They also hope to find a country home in south Leicestershire to give them somewhere pleasant to unwind during the weekend, and are hoping to achieve this on a budget of £270,000
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Tom and Carol Crosner, who are expecting their first child, to revise their housing situation. Despite a healthy budget of £350,000, their decision to buy a family home in Dorset - one of the UK's most expensive regions - may pose problems, especially as they also hope to acquire a Georgian property in Bath
Victoria and Henrik Foster enlist the help of Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer when they sell their home in London's Elephant and Castle and go in search of an ideal country retreat in Wiltshire, as well as a small flat in the capital. With two properties severely straining their budget it looks as if their dream will fall flat - until Kirstie makes a promising discovery.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a couple find the ideal balance between a place in the New Forest and a flat in London. Vicky Candy and her boyfriend Ray, are eager to set up a B&B in the New Forest. However, their ideal rural house gets caught up in a bidding war.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a London house-hunter to find his dream rural retreat in Kent - and hopefully have enough money left over to buy a small flat in the city. Designer Shane seeks inspiration in properties with period features and a sea view - preferably in Whitstable.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Darlington couple Paul and Panjarat, who are bored with the slow pace of life in the country. Paul has also had enough of the five-hour commute to work he faces every day. Their plan is to sell up and buy a house in Sheffield, while still having enough money left to purchase a rural retreat near Gateshead for when city life gets too hectic for them.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer assist a couple who want to find a house in South Wales with enough land for their horse, as well as a crash pad in Bristol where one of them works during the week. However, their requirements make it difficult for the duo to track down ideal properties
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Natalie Bere, a single mother living in London, who wants a new house in Kent to spend the weekends at, while keeping a home in the city so her daughter does not have to change schools. It proves to be a difficult task - not only are there 250,000 other commuters with the same idea, but Natalie's claustrophobia and fear of maintenance means she has very specific ideas about what she wants.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer arrive to help Dawn and John, a London couple planning to move to Scotland. They want a home on the Black Isle, a rugged peninsula in the Highlands, while maintaining a flat in Inverness for work. They soon find an old Georgian building perfect for their needs - but when Dawn discovers she is pregnant, their plans undergo a dramatic rethink.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Anna and YY Chow from Beaconsfield, who have made £280,000 on their home in the past four years, to find a new property in Cheshire, as well as a flat in Croydon to work from. They are also determined that their new home is to be feng shui friendly and mortgage free. However, they soon have to rethink their ideas when they learn that the £350,000 they have budgeted for does not stretch very far in an area populated by the extremely wealthy, with house prices to match.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Twickenham couple Johnny and Michelle Griffiths, who are hatching an ambitious plan to sell their one-bedroom flat and buy two houses, one in Cornwall and one in Italy.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Neal and Kerry Bailey, a couple expecting their third child who are planning to move from the London commuter belt to the North East, while still maintaining a flat in the city. However, while the pair have an impressive budget of three-quarters of a million to play with, it soon becomes apparent that they have very different priorities - while Neal wants to live closer to his family and his beloved Middlesborough Football Club, Kerry, who is giving up work to be a full-time parent, is afraid of being isolated and wants to live on an estate with other young families.
Kirstie Allsopp helps Dawn and Simon Veal from Surrey find a new home in Devon for £275,000 and Phil Spencer is given the task of finding a houseboat for Simon in Maidenhead, where he will be spending his working week. They view a number of buildings in the South West, including a huge farmhouse and a chapel conversion, but the contracts are still not signed on the sale of their own property
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help the Rawson family from Harrow near London find a home in the Republic of Ireland for £170,000. Eamonn Rawson wants to live close to his father in Co Wicklow, but any new property must get the seal of approval from his wife Lynn, who is quitting her job to become a full-time mother. Stunning Irish farmhouses are discovered, but the couple are also keen to keep a foothold in the UK housing market and consider purchasing a buy-to-let in St Albans for £250,000
Twenty-somethings Dean and Sam Brand enlist the help of property gurus Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp to find a new business and a place to live on the Isle of Wight. The duo line up some serious money-making options on the couple's budget of £320,000.
Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp help Allison Green and Mark Thomas. They have a baby on the way and want to leave their Marylebone flat in London for a more spacious home on the east Kent coast, as well as finding a crash pad in the capital.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a couple of airline workers from Wiltshire whose quality of life is suffering owing to the time they spend commuting. They are looking for a pad near Heathrow and a country home in the French countryside east of Lyon, where they hope their budget of £100,000 will stretch far enough to meet their dreams
Phil and Kirstie help Natasha Acres and Sandy Dillon search for a funky north Devon surfers' pad and a practical work/crash-pad space in Swindon.
Sailing enthusiasts Paul and Louise Harding, fed up with living miles inland, look to buy a house on the Hampshire coast and a flat in Maidenhead to save a commute to work. With a £600,000 budget, Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are able to find a huge selection of period cottages to tempt them - but the traditional look is not to the buyers' taste, resulting in a nearly impossible challenge for the presenters
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of lovebirds Howard Green and Joanna Holme, who are hoping to find a property in one of the textile towns north of Manchester. They also want to secure their financial future with a small rentable flat in Hull. However, with only £190,000 between them, they may have a hard task fulfilling their dreams
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help mother and daughter Gill and Sara Currie, who long to swap their suburban lives in Twickenham for a touch of rural bliss. Armed with £500,000, the experts try to fulfill the duo's dream of buying a country pub with B&B rooms. However, the house-hunters are determined to stay within commuting distance of Reading - which means Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire are on their list.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help PJ and Hereward Cleghorn-Brown use the £500,000 profit they made on their terraced house in Fulham, west London, to buy a country pile and a pied-a-terre in the capital. The search for a rural idyll takes them to Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, but the house-hunters are a picky pair, ruling out road noise and placing the need for five bedrooms at the top of their list.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Max and Pia Patte, who currently live in south London. The arty pair hope to minimise their commuting time by finding a home in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire or Hampshire, and are also looking for a funky place in Pia's home city of Stockholm, Sweden, as a stopover pad. However, their limited budget may not stretch far enough to meet their requirements
Kirstie Allsopp revisits Shane McCoubrey, a fashion designer who was on a mission to completely change his life with a move to the Kent coast.
An update on twentysomethings Dean and Sam Brand, whose search for a new business and a place to live took them to the Isle of Wight. One year on, Kirstie Allsopp discovers whether their new lifestyle as owners of the Old Comical pub has helped them fulfil their desire to spend more time with their young son.
An update on Steve Allum and Emma O'Neill, who swapped the bright lights of the city for a rural idyll in the Welsh countryside a year ago. Kirstie Allsopp discovers the careerists turned crofters have been busy trying to create their own paradise and is eager to find out whether their hard work has paid off.
An update on a couple who moved their family home to Cheshire to cut down on commuting time, buying a place in Croydon for the working week while ensuring the new house was feng shui-friendly. Kirstie Allsopp discovers whether the pair are reaping the rewards of country life and how the man of the house is coping with living away from the family four days out of seven.
Kirstie visits Devon, catching up with Dawn and Simon Veal, 18 months after she and Phil helped them move from Surrey to a new life.
If your home doubled in value would you have the nerve to sell and use the cash to re-launch your life? Phil Spencer is back visiting Shane McCoubrey, a fashion designer who did just that.
Phil Spencer is back visiting Allison Green and Mark Thomas who sold their swanky London flat to buy a new life in the fresh air of the Kent coast after their daughter was born.
Phil returns to see how Fiona and Tom Butcher have fared in their property, while also setting up a new business and starting a family in Scotland.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of the Smalleys, who want to leave their Leicestershire life behind and find a home and premises for a hot-tub business in Cumbria. Having already sold their house, Catherine and Mark are now living in a caravan, and have a budget of £400,000 to fulfil their dream of buying a three-bedroom home and somewhere to store their merchandise
Fed-up commuters Jenny and Morgan Williams would like to swap the buzz of Brighton for the peace of the French countryside, and turn to Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer for help. The artistic couple want to spend weekends and holidays in the remote Limousin region, and buy a home in Crawley, West Sussex, so they can continue to work and attend college in the UK
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Emma and Jeremy Tolhurst downsize from their luxurious five-bedroom family house in Fulham to a renovation wreck with profit potential in Oxfordshire. Following the birth of their first child, the couple are looking for a quieter pace of life in the country, and are hoping to recoup the £45,000 they over-invested in their London home.
irstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are north of the border on a mission to help Andrea and Ady Guthrie who are desperate house hunters dealing with the mother of all commutes: a round trip of 2,000 miles a week. Ady and Andrea want to move back to their Lancashire roots and are looking for a property there, as well as a retail space for Andrea's expanding Internet business. Kirstie and Phil try to steer the couple away from houses that match their conservative tastes by showing them a sleek barn conversion and a Seventies-themed pad.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help business-minded couple Paul and Tamsin Clarke find a bolt-hole in London and a more permanent home on the Kent coast. However, the property gurus have their work cut out as entrepreneur Paul would like a house that needs work, whereas Tamsin wants to be able to move in immediately
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer look for a rural home in Lancashire for sky-diving enthusiast Chris and his fiancee Karen, with room outside for Chris to keep pigs. Meanwhile, Karen is more concerned about organising their wedding, setting up a catering business and whether they will feel isolated in their new home.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer meet jet-setters who need help finding two properties. Opera singer Andrew Foster-Williams and his partner Paul need a home in Paris as close to the bustling central districts as possible, and a crash pad in London. The sale of their two properties gives them a budget of £320,000, but the couple experience a reality check when they learn what they can afford.
Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp help a married couple search for a home in the north of Scotland. Dan Lunnon-Wood works in Wales and his wife Tracy has a job in London. They both make the long commute each weekend to Dan's parents' house in the north-east corner of Britain because, despite tying the knot three years previously, they have still not found their first home together.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit surfers Natasha and Sandy, who bought a second home on the north Devon coast while maintaining a crash-pad in Swindon for their business ventures. The property experts find out whether the value of the building has increased and whether their sporting ambitions are still being fulfilled.
Mother and daughter Sara and Gill Currie swapped their suburban lives in Twickenham for a country pub with B&B rooms. Phil Spencer revisits them 18 months on and finds out whether they believe opening a business in the heart of a rural community was the right investment.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit Mark and Catherine Smalley, who moved from Leicestershire to the Lake District to turn their love of hot tubs into a business. With their house sold for £500,000 and the family living in a tiny caravan, the couple finally fell in love with a barn conversion that proved an ideal location for business premises.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer check on the progress of Howard Green and Joanna Holme, two years after they decided they wanted to buy a home together north of Manchester and a rentable flat in Hull for a combined price of £190,000.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a Croydon couple look for a holiday home on the Pembrokeshire coast as well as a property in the M4 corridor between work and their new Welsh hideaway. The pair are determined to find two detached homes, each with a large garden, but their £380,000 budget does not stretch very far.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a couple locate a property in Devon, where they can use water, wind and solar power to achieve carbon-neutral living. This means they have a long list of requirements and the search area has to be doubled to have any chance of finding what they want. To add to the challenge, the pair also need a flat in Brighton.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help former fireman Richard Thompson and his pregnant wife Laurie buy a home in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and a holiday retreat in southern France - two locations they have never even visited before. It is left to the property experts to find something to suit the couple's conflicting demands.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer assist a newlywed couple, Rosie and Andy, looking to move away from Hertfordshire commuter town Tring. They have found new jobs in Devon where they hope to be able to spend more time together and pursue their passion for watersports.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Johnny and Lynsay Davies and their two young sons move away from London and find a place in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Despite having a budget of £750,000, the task of finding a large home with a spacious garden close to designer shops and restaurants, and having money left over for a place to stay back in the capital, proves challenging.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help pilot Matthew Vardy and his flight attendant wife Louise find a family home in the Northumberland countryside so they can be close to relatives. The only drawback is the 300-mile commuting distance from Northumberland to Heathrow, so a flat in the south is also desirable as an additional stopping point.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a couple who are moving to Budapest for work reasons and also want a place to stay close to Luton airport, with easy access to rural Hertfordshire where they previously lived. The property experts find a number of stunning homes in the Hungarian capital, but pleasing the house-hunters proves challenging.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer assist a London couple with three children who want to move out of their cramped three-bedroom terrace and into a family home on the Essex-Hertfordshire border. However, they also hope to buy an investment property in the capital's East End.
A year ago Phil and Kirstie were on a double mission to help eco obsessives Sue and Neil start a new double life in Devon and Brighton. But has the green dream become a technicolour reality?
Phil and Kirstie head off on a sunny sail over to the Isle of Wight to revisit Dean and Sam Brand, the young couple they helped to find a new home and business for, back in 2003. At the time this young couple were fed up with the hamster's wheel of the daily grind and wanted Kirstie and Phil to help them flee the Midlands and head to what they described as a "magical isle". But this couple didn't just want a house, oh no, the Brands wanted a new business and a place to live, all for £320,000. Four years on Kirstie and Phil are back to see whether life in their favourite holiday destination is living up to expectations and they're in for one hell of a surprise. Dean and Sam called time on the pub plan and have got a new business. Have they made the right decision?
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit Jenny and Morgan Williams who swapped the buzz of Brighton for the peace of the French countryside. The artistic couple wanted to spend weekends and holidays in the remote Limousin region, and also bought a home in Crawley, West Sussex, so they could continue to work and attend college in the UK.
Phil Spencer revisits Ady and Andrea Guthrie, who moved from London to Lancashire 18 months previously, to see whether they got what they wanted or let their dream house slip away. The super-organised couple appeared to have a clear idea of what they wanted, but their five-year plan was beginning to founder on the practicalities of renovation and changing priorities
Phil and Kirstie are north of the border on a hair-raising mission to help two desperate house hunters dealing with the mother of all commutes. Dan and Tracy Lunnon-Wood tied the knot three years ago but, despite hundreds of hours searching, countless offers and thousands spent on surveys, they're still scouring the north of Scotland for their first ever home together.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer catch up with James and Vikki to see how they are managing two years after moving from Croydon, Surrey, to Woodcote, Oxfordshire. The couple originally wanted a holiday home on the Pembrokeshire coast as well, but found it tough to get the budget to go further than a semi-detached house.
This week, Relocation, Relocation is in the West Country and this search definitely comes with a health warning! IT Consultant Dominic Clark and his wife Stephanie are a pair of shrewd operators. They’ve been successfully riding the property wave since they got together. It was the birth of their son Oscar just over a year ago that prompted the change – now a full time mum, the priority for Steph is to have a long-term family home near Bristol to be close to her parents and sister.
Meet hard-working 28 year-olds Rikita and Dony Patel. She works in the city and he has a high-flying job in pharmaceuticals - but what they really want is to play happy families. For two years they’ve been searching for the perfect pad to make a new life ... and four months ago they found it. A four bedroomed house, just half an hour from Rikita’s parents in Shirley, Croydon, with a large garden and most importantly, plenty of room to extend. But just days before they were due to move in, Rikita and Dony became one of the first casualties of the credit crunch; their mortgage was withdrawn. Like a growing number of buyers, they lost the house because of nervous lenders.
Thirty-somethings Helen and Grant live in the leafy suburbs of Forest Hill, South East London. This alternative couple work in the creative side of advertising and are keen to uproot themselves from their tranquil pastures and buy their first property together in the more trendy, post-industrial corners of North East London. But that's not all... Because Kirstie and Phil like a challenge, they also need to find a new home in Kent for Grant’s parents. Ray and Connie are moving a whopping 6,000 miles from Durban, South Africa, to be reunited with their family - who have been living apart for 10 years. Grant and Helen want to share in this idyllic Kent lifestyle too, as well as getting a foothold on a fast paced life in London, so they’re stumping up a good chunk of the cash for the Kent home to share with mum and dad at the weekend.
Ultra-cautious couple Damon Barbour and Gemma Kerr want to move out of the Big Smoke into the Surrey countryside. But as well as the perfect home, they want the perfect investment property in Berlin.
Kirstie and Phil are helping a couple who are turning the usual relocation dream on its head and wanting to escape to London, not away from it. Bristol-based couple Louise Buckles and Peter Melrose are finding that their work is mainly in London; and so they want their main house there, while holding on to the rural idyll by keeping a little place in the Wiltshire countryside.
Hertfordshire couple Helen and Paul are giving up the security of their mortgage-free home in Hertfordshire, and taking on a huge business loan. Even with a £1.4 million budget, this search won't be a stroll down the aisle for Kirstie and Phil. Paul's set on starting a business from scratch, and with Kirstie and Phil finding it can take up to two years for a new venue to get its first booking, the pressure is on.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Inyang and Gregor Ross, who have sold their three-storey Glasgow townhouse and want to move to Cornwall in search of a more close-knit community and better weather. The experts face tough challenges, knowing that the Rosses have only three weeks left in their current accommodation, and require a property with enough space for a family business.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Beefeater Simon Dodd and his wife Pauline, who currently live in the Tower of London, find a new property they can call home. The couple have grown tired of occupying a historic landmark and want a place in Hampshire as well as a bolthole on the Kent coast.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Victoria Wills and Frank Russell with a £1.5million business expansion project that also has to serve as a home. The experts embark on a wide search that spans properties in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, but have their work cut out when they find the original plans have radically changed.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help married couple, Alex and Phillip, who are looking for a 10-bedroom house with excellent scenery near Darlington in north-east England, but their budget may not be enough to buy such a large property. To make matters worse, they would also like a ski chalet in the French Alps.
Eighteen months after their first meeting, Kirstie Allsopp revisits Johnny and Lynsay Davies, who relocated from London to be nearer Lynsay's parents in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to see how they are getting on following the move
Phil and Kirstie return to visit mother and daughter Sarah and Gill Currie who found their dream rural pub with B&B. Is life behind the bar as fulfilling as they'd hoped it would be?
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer catch up with a couple who moved from Hertfordshire to Devon. They were looking for a better quality of life, and decided to move closer to the sea to enjoy watersports. They also wanted to help a relative buy a place of their own in Bristol.
Phil revisits Allison and Mark, four years since the arrival of their first baby made the couple decide to trade in their London lifestyle for a different pace of life on the Kent coast. After a hard search and long negotiations, they managed to find their dream property with a budget of £700,000, but the presenter also learns how an earthquake threatened to bring the building down.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit a couple who moved from Swindon to Devon five years earlier looking for a surfer's pad. The initial search was difficult for all involved, but Kirstie is impressed by the revamped home and declares it her all-time favourite property location.
Margot and Henry Harris are a couple in their late seventies hoping to find a new home in Berkshire, as well as a holiday retreat on the Dorset coast. However, while Margot wants something new, trendy and fresh, it becomes clear that Henry does not really want to move at all, and it is left to property experts Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp to help the pair find something they can agree on.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Derek Leslie and Fiona Smith look for houses in the Scottish countryside. After a move to New Zealand did not work out, the couple spent a year visiting more than 100 properties but failed to accomplish their dream of finding a main home in the Perthshire area and a retreat on Scotland's west coast.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Becky Thomas and Keith Roberts, a couple with a child who want to move to Norfolk to be closer to the coast, and also keep a property in London. The experts have to act quickly and also keep in mind the exacting demands of the pair, who want nothing less than a stunning home.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer visit Devon to help Carole and Alan Langman with a three-tiered property search. The dog-loving couple hope to begin a canine-training business with their daughter, find a place they can call home in Devon, and help their son get a foot on the property ladder.
Civil Servant Pav Akhtar has a new job which means a move north with partner Mikael Denis. They want to buy two properties in Manchester - the perfect home in the south of the city and a solid investment flat in the centre, but the search is hampered by Pav's fussy nature and extreme first-time buyer's nerves. Can Phil and Kirstie turn their dream into a reality, despite their fears?
Phil and Kirstie tackle their biggest search area ever when they scour an entire country seeking out a whole new way of life for two would-be hoteliers. Christine and Keith Bettis have given up everything they know to chase their dream of running a hotel, somewhere, anywhere in Scotland. They're new to the game, but Christine's been doing her homework, spending the last two years living away from Keith in a range of hotels while learning the ropes in preparation for their new venture. Now Keith has moved north and the two of them are living in a hotel room, waiting to start living the dream for real.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help a couple who want to relocate their family from Bristol to London. Sunee and Will Goring hope to buy a smaller property in the capital, and make a long-term investment in a flat to secure their children's futures.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Laurie and Celeste, who have moved from Australia to London and are desperate to leave their rented flat for a home in rural West Sussex, and also buy an investment property in the capital. As they work together, they want to find a place with enough space to pursue their own interests, but need to be realistic about what they can afford.
Phil meets a family who were desperate to be reunited after ten years of living thousands of miles apart. This double dream meant a city pad in London for Grant and his girlfriend Helen, and a coastal property in Kent for his parents Ray and Connie, who were keen to relocate from South Africa to be nearer their sons. Two years on, Phil is desperate to find out if Ray and Connie have managed to move back to Britain.
Kirstie and Phil visit the first couple they ever relocated together, Fiona and Tom Butcher, who moved from London to the Highlands just as the credit crunch began to bite.
The Crosners were one of the first couples Kirstie and Phil ever helped. They wanted a small flat in Bath and a family-ready home in Dorset. Now Phil is back to see how much their life has changed.
Phil Spencer visits Wales to catch up with a couple who six years previously wanted to leave Milton Keynes and find a new home in the countryside, as well as a city pad in Bristol. As the property search began, it became clear that getting land and stabling for their horse was the biggest priority.
Phil Spencer revisits executive coaches Louise Buckles and Peter Melrose, who were based in Bristol but found themselves increasingly in demand in London. They hoped not only to find a property in the capital to reduce the stress of travelling, but to keep their ties to the West Country by purchasing a second home in Wiltshire.