Episode 4 Young, Rich and House Hunting


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I want to live here.

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Up and down the country, super rich teens and twenty-somethings

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are snapping up the hottest properties money can buy.

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-This is where the mistress would be.

-You could hide your lover in here when your husband gets home.

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How To Be A Property Millionaire - I like to read that.

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Unless you've got a trust fund, or being bankrolled by mum and dad.

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Some people work all their life to become a millionaire,

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I just adopted it.

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The average first time buyer now reaches a whopping 38 years old.

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-38?! Bloody hell!

-You're joking. You're practically your dad.

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As Britain's youth are in danger of becoming a generation who can't afford to buy their own homes,

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this series follows some of the UK's most affluent young people.

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I don't care about the money.

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80 bottles of Dom Perignon, a few bottles of Cristal - standard weekend, really.

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I'll make 100 times as much in 10 years.

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As they hunt for their perfect pads...

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Yeah, this is a bit amazing.

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-Oh, I love this.

-Oh, my god.

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And there's a walk-in wardrobe!

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..and go on a serious spending spree.

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That's the sort of theme I want to be going for, cos £700 is a good bargain.

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It's going to be extortionate.

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This one is 420,000.

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799,950.

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On the market for about 2.25 million.

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There is no doubt in my mind, I've become obsessed with property.

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-Have we got it?

-Yeah!

-Thank God!

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In tonight's show, a 17 and 18-year-old brother and sister

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with a £600,000 cash budget.

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Ideally, we'll buy it tomorrow. That'd be perfect. You go to school, we have a house,

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I go to Thailand, we have a house. Go skiing, have a house.

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A 25-year-old WAG after the ultimate wardrobe.

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This is clearly all of mine,

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and this would be Stephen's.

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And a 19-year-old cash buyer wants to splash 400 grand

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on something as eccentric as he is.

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-It was a

-BLEEP

-cave.

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Say bonjour to Gai.

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Hello, I'm Gai. I'm 19.

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I'm looking for a house to buy.

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I'm looking at places around 350 or £400,000.

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Originally from France, Gai flew the nest four months ago

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and landed in London to go to uni.

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I don't know why I'm in the UK, I just decided to go study somewhere.

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I suppose London was first on my priority list.

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Gai prides himself on his impulsivity.

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And his latest urge is to buy a place in London's fashionable Notting Hill,

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which suits his unconventional taste.

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I'm looking for an old property with high ceilings, big windows,

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as much wood as possible inside.

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He has a cash budget of £400,000,

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but at 19, having so much money brings mixed feelings.

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You don't just get things by doing nothing.

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What have I done?

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-I haven't done

-BLEEP.

-I've inherited money from my father.

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Property could be a way for Gai to look after his fortune.

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Anyone who has a bit of money obviously wants to do good stuff with it.

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Eventually, if possible, make it grow.

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His challenge is to find a property that's both a sensible investment,

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while being as eccentric as he is.

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Gai isn't the only teenager who has hundreds of thousands of pounds inheritance.

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Hello, I'm Amelia. I'm 18.

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-Hello, I'm Henry and I'm 17 and I'm looking to buy a property with my sister.

-With me.

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I've got 600,000 to spend.

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-You haven't, we've got 600,000 to spend.

-We're chipping in together.

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But this pair know nothing about property...

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Let's have a look.

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..yet.

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We used to look at doll's houses together,

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when we were really little, when we were, like, five and six. Cut that!

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SHE LAUGHS

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This is like shopping, but, like, major shopping.

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What they lack in experience, they make up for in funds.

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Perfect. We're putting 300,000 in each.

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Yeah, it's like, inheritance, which I'm really lucky for.

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We don't want to go into any mortgage or loans or anything like that,

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or ask parents for money or anything like that.

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So we just want to be safe. Get, like, on the property ladder

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while we're young and it's really exciting.

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W-o-o-o-o!

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At 17, Henry spends most of his time either at boarding school or playing in a band.

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So it's up to 18-year-old Amelia to find them their perfect pad.

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Location is everything

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and the new home has to be in West London's exclusive Chelsea.

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-It's the centre of the world.

-Yeah, exactly.

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You can literally just get a tube to King's Cross, St Pancreas and Eurostar.

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Exactly.

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-Like, to go to Mumbai.

-Yeah, I'm going to Mumbai.

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The pair have just seven weeks to buy a flat before Amelia goes travelling.

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I'm on my gap year.

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When I get back from travelling it'd be really nice to have, sort of, my own flat

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and get out into the real world.

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I think we're going to go out there and look for a bargain. So, bargain hunt.

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-Meet Jess.

-My name is Jessica Lawlor.

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I'm 25 years old and the budget that I'm working with

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is between one and two million.

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Jess is the girlfriend of Premiership footballer Stephen Ireland.

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She's spent the last two years perfecting their £4 million Cheshire mansion.

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I love the house.

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Every room, I feel, has the wow factor.

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We had real fun with the kid's rooms.

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We've got a little wardrobe in here.

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That's one lucky four-year-old.

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As well as wardrobes the same size as most people's bedrooms...

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So, this is my dressing room.

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..Jess thinks that individual bathrooms are a must.

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So, this is my bathroom.

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You know, I don't use it that much because it just takes so long to, obviously, fill.

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Quite a big bath.

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But she hasn't always lived in a palace.

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The first time I was ever in a house like this was when we started going house hunting.

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You know, we're working class background, that's where we came from and that's us.

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And now, obviously, you know, it's great to have this.

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It's good to be able to make the comparison cos you have to feel that you appreciate it more.

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One of the downsides of dating a Premiership footballer is the nomadic lifestyle.

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Stephen's recent transfer to Aston Villa means Jess now has to find another home in Birmingham.

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We're really family orientated, so it's important that home is perfect.

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Never knowing when you'll be uprooted next is a dilemma her fellow WAGS sympathise with.

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It's a massive upheaval for the whole family.

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You've got to find somewhere that you could potentially sell on,

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but you have to make sure it's a home as well.

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I don't think we're going to find anything like this in Birmingham for the budget that we'll be using.

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Jess ONLY has two million to spend,

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just half the value of her current house.

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It's the first day of Jess's house hunt and she's drafted her mum, Maureen, in to help.

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-That's really country.

-There's some really nice villages in Lichfield,

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and it's not that far from the training ground.

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No, that's where it is.

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I used to live in Birmingham. That's where she wants to move,

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so I'm sort of giving her advice

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and to, kind of, know what to look for in a house.

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Mum and daughter's house experiences are worlds apart.

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My first house was 37,000.

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That's absolutely nothing now, is it?

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It seems nothing now, but then, it was an awful lot of money.

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What Maureen spent on her first house, Stephen Ireland earns in less than seven days,

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with a weekly salary of around £50,000.

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She's going to have so much more choice,

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obviously she has a different budget to what...

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obviously what we had and probably many other people have,

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so she'll be able to have that advantage.

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She might have a high budget, but Jess also has high standards,

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and as she drives up to this eight bedroom,

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£2.9 million house, she spots a problem.

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Other people live on the street.

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Hi, Bob. Hi, Mary.

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It'll be weird. I'm not used to having neighbours.

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No self-respecting WAG wants to be overlooked or within the sights of the paparazzi.

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Hmmm, it's OK.

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Stephen would love this house.

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-What would Stephen think to this?

-Excellent.

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It's wonderful, isn't it?

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Oh.

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It's massive.

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-So, this is a shared wardrobe, yeah?

-Yeah.

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This is clearly all of mine,

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and this would be Stephen's.

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To me, this is actually, my God, this is a really big wardrobe for me.

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And it is to me, too. What do you think I am?

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The Queen or something overnight?

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I mean, obviously when I used to live at home,

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my wardrobe was, like, that size.

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What this house lacks in wardrobe space,

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it makes up for in other areas.

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-Oh, that's gorgeous. The bath is lovely.

-Isn't it?

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I've never seen so many bathrooms in my whole life in a house.

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-How many bathrooms have you got?

-Um, nothing compared to this.

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-Well, wait a minute, you've got nearly seven, Jessica.

-I don't.

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You do.

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-You've got two upstairs, and then you have...

-Yeah, cos...

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..the kids have got one each, so that's five.

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Feel like we're sharing a bathroom compared to this house.

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With more bathrooms than Jess could ever need,

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this house could be perfect.

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I keep looking out that window

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and the only thing that puts me off is out the front.

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That's so open.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Teenager Amelia's never bought a house before,

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so she's asked for advice from an expert.

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I walked past the estate agent a few times,

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took a deep breath,

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went in the door and said "Please may I buy a house?"

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and they said,

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"OK, you know, she's new. Obviously never done this before."

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Amelia's 600 grand budget

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doesn't get you much in Kensington and Chelsea,

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where the average property costs 1.3 million.

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So, the agents arrange for her to see a flat in the much cheaper neighbouring Hammersmith.

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It'll be quite exciting. I do like new things.

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Amelia's never considered living so far away from her beloved Chelsea.

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I'd love to be down there, that we passed.

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But, now we're going a bit...

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We'll see. We'll see.

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-Oh, this is nice.

-Yeah.

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No, this is, it's very nice but,

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it's just a shame it's in Hammersmith.

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I mean obviously Sloane Square and Chelsea,

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and just off the King's Road are one of the most expensive in London.

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A lot of people do come to Parson's Green and around Fulham,

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just cos you get more for your money.

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-Let's move the house.

-Plonk it somewhere in Chelsea.

-Yeah.

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I don't want to live anywhere else.

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I wouldn't want to live this far out.

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It's like, I might as well live in Bristol.

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Yeah! Rock star.

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Unconventional Gai has 400 grand cash to spend on a new home.

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He and uni friend, Ari, are viewing a flat in London's Notting Hill.

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I think this street is BLEEP cool.

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The buildings are quite high and it's only got three floors,

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so every floor is, like, really high.

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It's got really high ceilings and windows. Right now, I feel in London.

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And for Gai, a home should reflect your individuality.

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Loads of people who buy old... re-do all these flats, just make...

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and it's, like, mass production - they all look the same, they've got the same furniture.

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White walls. Why white walls? Why should walls be white? You know?

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-Hi, nice to meet you.

-Hi Frances, how are you?

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-And you are?

-Ari.

-Hi, Ari. Nice to meet you.

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Right, this is the building, OK?

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And the flat we're going to look at is in the lower ground floor.

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-Is it the basement? OK.

-It's the basement, yeah.

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-And so it's a one bedroom?

-One bedroom flat, yeah. It's quite a low ceiling height.

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-The bathroom's quite modern.

-Yeah.

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And then there's a storage cupboard there.

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Then you've got here - this is your living room.

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It's tough to big up a cramped, one bed flat with no daylight.

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And then you've got here - open-plan kitchen.

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Especially when it's priced at 420,000.

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So, you don't get a lot of sun.

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-Nope?

-OK?

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It was a BLEEP cave.

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It was funny the way you said, "I want wooden floors and..."

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Yeah, wooden floors, high ceilings

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and big windows, bay windows.

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No windows, no ceilings, no floors. Nothing.

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Welcome to London, Gai,

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where property prices are 75 per cent higher than the rest of the country.

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In Birmingham, you should get more of a bargain.

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But with a budget of up to 2 million,

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25-year-old Jess can afford to be fussy.

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And you've got the formal drawing room in here.

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Right, OK.

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-But you could still put big, modern sofas in here and then...

-Yeah, definitely...

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-..start with your own.

-..have to do that.

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-I bet their furniture is worth a fortune. It's all antique, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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-I feel like I'm in a museum.

-Like stepping back in time.

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It's definitely the wild card, but knowing Jess's penchant for bathrooms,

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the en-suites might just bring her round.

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Oh, my goodness! It's like...

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-I have never, ever seen such a mix match...

-No, never.

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-..in my life!

-No.

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It's the bathroom is unbelievably modern

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and then it's like they forgot about the rest of the house.

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You get a shock when you come in here, don't you?

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I have never, ever seen a house like that before.

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-I think, you know, good to see it. Do you know?

-OK, right.

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You remember that programme,

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-Through The Keyhole, who lives in a house like this?

-Yeah.

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The last people on the list of who lives in...

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if that was our house, would be me and Stephen, that they'd pick.

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Despite having £400,000 to spend on a new home, Gai's been renting a small bedsit

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and Ari is about to see it for the first time.

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I took this flat because I didn't have, really,

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anywhere to stay and I had to find a flat

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before starting school.

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I just want to put mirrors and clocks all over.

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Makes it a bit spooky.

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Paint the walls black.

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-You can't have your living room in black.

-I can.

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If the state of your home reflects the state of your mind,

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Ari is worried about his friend.

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Lives every day like it was the last.

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Messing about and just, like, smoking cigarettes after cigarettes,

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finishing his red wine.

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He lives in chaos.

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Gai's life might be in disarray,

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but he's been comforting himself by buying antique furniture.

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Oh, I actually got some, if you look through it. Look in my eyes.

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How big do they look to you?

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-How cool is that?

-I think this flat is too small for this kind of furniture.

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If you're staying in London I would highly recommend that he moves out of here.

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It's just terrible. Nothing makes sense in this flat.

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-I don't want things to make sense.

-No, but if you just know that...

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-Follow my...

-..it's about really bad taste.

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..follow my own penchant.

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This flat makes sense in a bad way.

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In a way that you don't want a flat to make sense, or not make sense.

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That made sense.

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So far, Jess's hunt for a new home in Birmingham has proved unsuccessful.

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-Do you want to have a look at the views from the back?

-Yeah.

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She's now viewing a £1.7 million mansion that used to belong to another footballer.

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Fingers crossed, this is the one.

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So would you consider an older house and then refurbish it inside?

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Eventually, maybe. But not now.

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We could end up moving again in a year. It's so unpredictable.

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-You're looking for something that's...

-Ready.

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-..that you can literally move into.

-Yeah. Um, yeah.

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-After you.

-Thank you.

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-I'll let you go into the master bedroom first...

-Ah, the master bedroom.

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..cos it's so wow.

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-It's like a round room, isn't it?

-Semi-round room.

-Whoa!

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-It's weird in here, isn't it?

-Isn't it great?

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I don't think you can help but be drawn to the views.

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Oh, my God, is that a riding pen?

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Yeah, they've got stables, a menage and a paddock.

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You feel like you need to get horses to live here, cos what else are you going to do with it?

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There's lots of riding opportunities here,

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which is why these people kept horses.

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Jess hasn't ridden a horse since she was eight.

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-OK?

-OK. Come on, then.

-Just not for me.

-Yeah.

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-The whole house is just based around horses.

-Yeah, absolutely.

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I'd be embarrassed bringing people and they're like, "What's that over there?"

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and it's like, "Oh, well, stables, a pen, a walkway for the horses"

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-and they're like "Where's your horses?"

-Yeah.

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Amelia is under pressure.

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There's only five weeks left to find a flat before she goes travelling.

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She's been told it's almost impossible to find a two bedroom flat in Chelsea

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within her 600 grand budget.

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I'm just really excited. Why? Because it's off the King's Road.

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-That's all she cares about.

-Yeah.

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-She won't move anywhere other than the King's Road.

-Yeah.

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But this 18-year-old seems to have come up trumps

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and has arranged a viewing with her brother for exactly that.

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-It's nice, isn't it?

-Yeah. No, it's lovely.

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They've got the lighting just right.

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-Yeah, they've got the atmosphere.

-It is really good.

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No, it's great. Like, I love all the trimmings.

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THEY LAUGH

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This is everything Amelia has dreamt of.

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Two bedrooms, period property, just off the King's Road, and all within budget.

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And this is bedroom two.

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There must be a catch.

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Yeah, this room is...

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quite small.

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Ever the optimists, these teenage house hunters won't let a small thing like space

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get in the way of their dream location.

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-OK, I'd have this as, like, a sofa. Like, the room is a sofa.

-The room as a sofa.

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So everyone can just sit on the sofa.

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-You could eat...no, you couldn't.

-What?

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-I was going to have a table in here, but you couldn't...

-Dining room!

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Luckily for Henry, he's still at boarding school,

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otherwise this would be his bedroom.

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-How much is it?

-It's about six.

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-Is it 595?

-Six what?

-600,000.

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Cool.

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-So, what do you think to that?

-I love it.

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That went really well. I think I'm going to put in an offer.

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It's pretty perfect. What I thought it would be.

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After the disappointment of the previous cramped property,

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Gai's still on the hunt for a home as eccentric as he is.

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Welcome to the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum,

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where a unique flat has come onto the market for 385,000.

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And Gai is being shown around by the proud owner.

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DOOR CREAKS

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-It's quite large, but it's full of furniture at the moment, as you can see.

-Yeah.

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PARROT CAWS

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-Hello.

-He's talking to me.

-Hello.

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Him and I understand each other.

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It was used as an asylum, apparently, as well, was it?

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Um, it was built as an orphanage for the daughters

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of the soldiers who died during the Crimean War.

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-Oh, OK.

-Yeah, it wasn't... It didn't have any...

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mental patients.

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This is the secret panel with the fake books to hide the bathroom.

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It's probably haunted.

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-It's very quiet.

-No ghosts?

-No ghost.

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-Do you want a ghost?

-Yes.

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Well, then, you know, I think there is one in the cellar.

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But it seems there are limits to the level of madness that even Gai is willing to embrace.

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-I'll be in touch.

-Thanks, bye.

-Thank you. Bye. Sorry, take care.

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It makes no sense.

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An asylum flat with asylum people.

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BIRDS CAW

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With asylum birds everywhere.

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Yesterday, Amelia put an offer on her dream home,

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but she's hit an obstacle.

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Yeah, I had a huge argument with Daddy last night.

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Because it's a basement flat he said that they'd just put a lick of paint over the walls to hide everything.

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-Oh, really?

-They're a nuisance for damp.

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Amelia's running out of time before she goes travelling.

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She's pinning her hopes on a period property just a five minute cab ride from the King's Road.

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-Although it has a garden, on ground level.

-That's cool.

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-If it's basement.

-Let's hope it's not.

-Let's hope it's not.

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Please don't be a basement.

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-Hello. Fine, thank you.

-Right, we are down here.

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Ah, not another basement flat.

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-Oh.

-Sorry.

-Thank you.

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It's exactly what they dreaded.

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But after a lifetime of good breeding,

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Henry and Amelia are far too polite to hurt anyone's feelings.

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-It's a double bedroom...

-That's nice.

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..with built-in storage on the left hand side.

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I like the decoration.

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Yeah.

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Bathroom.

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I like this.

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-Mm.

-It's all... It's lit up and...

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-Kitchen.

-Kitchen.

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-It's small, but...

-Yeah, I know, but then...

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Yeah, definitely.

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-It's really stylish.

-It's got a bit of charm, a bit of character.

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-It's very French.

-Very...

-Very Parisian.

-..chic.

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Daddy told me last night not to buy a basement flat.

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Go to see a flat, it's a basement flat, really nice,

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but ultimately it is a basement flat.

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I'd love to find it before I go travelling.

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-Ideally, we'll buy it tomorrow.

-Yeah.

-That'd be perfect.

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Then you go to school, we have a house. I go to Thailand, we have a house.

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Go skiing, have a house.

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I want to go on the internet right now cos this is getting stressful,

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and then when I go see it I'll just buy the first one I see. Fab.

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Amelia is a woman on a mission.

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If she's going to buy a flat in three weeks, she's got a lot of work to do.

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I'm looking for a two bedroom flat in Pimlico,

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not lower basement.

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Is it SW1V?

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It has to be SW1V, not P, cos as close to Sloane Square as possible.

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I've looked round a few, but they were basements and I'm not allowed basements.

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So, what's going on here?

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They're all really excited to have me as their customer,

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so they've all taken my details.

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OK, bye. Bye. I almost said lots of love.

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I've never been asked my number so many times in a day.

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Meanwhile, Gai has received some bad news,

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which makes his house hunt all the more urgent.

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I got evicted.

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I left a pan on the gas.

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After hearing the fire alarm going off like five or six times, I didn't realise it was mine.

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Smoke was getting out under the door and the whole building was full of smoke.

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After almost setting fire to the entire building,

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Gai has been given just two weeks to find a new home.

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They just don't want me to set the building on fire,

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which probably makes sense and so...

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Back up in Cheshire and Jess has also had some shocking news.

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Stephen is no longer, you know, down in Birmingham

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because he's moved clubs from Villa to Newcastle United.

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That's just literally changed plans for everything.

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There's no point having a property in Birmingham cos we won't be there.

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I'm in Manchester at the moment, Stephen's in Newcastle, we were in Birmingham,

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it's split between three different cities,

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so just have to wait till the summer.

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I'm kind of glad, in the end, right now, that we hadn't just,

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you know, rushed into it and literally bought a house,

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cos we would have been stuck with a house and not even living there.

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In London's Notting Hill, Gai's on the move.

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Last week, the 19-year-old French student with a £400,000 cash budget,

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was forced to find a new home after being evicted.

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Just moved everything that was at my place. I'm going to the flat now.

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But it could be a blessing in disguise as he's moving from this...

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Wow!

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..to something far worthier of his antique furniture.

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What do you think?

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I think it's nice.

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In a rush to get a roof over his head, he's ended up with another rental.

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-1,300 a month.

-Per person?

-Oh, yeah.

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It turns out, that for all his talk of dark interiors,

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these white walls are putting a smile on the 19-year-old's face.

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I'm very happy to have moved in here.

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Not sure I wanted to buy

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anything at all in London, at the moment.

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Now isn't the time to buy. Definitely not.

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Finally, Gai has found his home in London.

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Since I moved here, it has changed my mood quite drastically.

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For the past two months, he was sleeping all day

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and he was not really coming to university,

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so I felt like there was something wrong with him.

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Every day when he wakes up, there's, like, sparkles in his eyes.

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He really likes it, I can tell.

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No, it actually did. It changed my life.

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Changed my... yeah, it did.

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Next time, 18-year-old Amelia continues her house hunt

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and spends over half a million on a flat she's never seen.

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I don't think I have to look round it either.

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This is spontaneity.

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We meet 19-year-old businessman Johnny,

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with 400 grand to spend on his very first flat.

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Next little complex won't be ready till next August.

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I'll have to wear a hard hat every time I go out.

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And 24-year-old property investor Ed, has a massive 1.5 million

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to build his own property empire.

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Something like that would go with the theme.

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It's got the diamantes, which I really like.

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