Scott Cam reveals truth about house he’s built on The Block this season

The Block host Scott Cam has built his own house alongside contestants this year – but as confusion swirls, he wants to make one thing clear.

The Block host Scott Cam has cleared up a common misconception about the house he’s been building alongside contestants on the show’s current season.

In a Block first, Cam and his team of tradies fitted out a country property on the same Gisborne estate as the contestants’ houses, with Cam running double duty as he hosted the show as well as pulled rooms together each week.

But, as Cam explained to fellow Block presenter Shelley Craft on a recent episode of the show’s podcast, the finished house is not his to keep.

“Something I need to point out – which my wife has asked me to point out – is that we don’t own that house. That is not our house,” he said.

The Block home Scott Cam built (... but doesn’t own).

“Everybody is saying to my wife, ‘Are you going to move there? When are you going to sell it?’

“We have to explain to everyone that it belongs to the network – I just built it as my house.

I would love to live there, but my family is based in Sydney. I built it for some other lucky family to live in.”

The home will find a buyer at a later date.

It makes sense. The house would have been something of an odd pick as a new country getaway for Cam and his family, given its proximity to the homes the contestants have been building. Assuming the other five sell at auction, would The Block’s longtime host find much privacy, living alongside five fans of the show?

Inside Scott Cam’s Block home.

Cam and fam are staying put in Sydney.

Cam’s Nine-owned house will not be auctioned off alongside the contestants’ offerings this weekend, and is in fact not on the market at all.

For now, Nine is keeping mum about its plans for Cam’s place – but news.com.au understands that it will likely be sold at a later date.

Until then, Nine could use it as a lucrative side hustle – Craft said she’d already fielded a DM from a local woman asking if she could have her wedding photos taken at the house (the show’s producers agreed).

The Southern Cross skylights were an acquired taste.

Cam was very much designing to his own inclinations.

And as for that controversial design feature in Cam’s otherwise impeccably decorated abode? Some viewers were stunned to see that Cam had installed a series of giant skylights in the shape of the Southern Cross on his shed’s roof – a feature some derided as “tacky” and “bogan”.
Cam told Craft he wasn’t too fussed what anyone thought of his house.

“People would have been thinking they didn’t like or they liked my place, and that’s fine. I’m not getting judged, we’re not selling at auction,” he said.