Insane price loss for luxury pad from The Block
A stunning price crash for an apartment from The Block’s 2016 series highlights the dangers of buying property on reality TV.
A stunning price crash for an apartment from The Block’s 2016 series highlights the dangers of buying property on reality TV.
The Block’s name is mud on Phillip Island as tradespeople shirk the renovation show, which leaves host Scott Cam ‘devastated’. Here’s why it’s happening.
They might only be 22 and 24, but that hasn’t stopped the other supposed adult Block contestants ganging up on sisters Maddy and Charlotte. And the reasoning is even more petty.
Teams turn on the new Block sisters after exposing their ‘lies’ while a sour-faced Kylie and Brad refuse to clap or congratulate them.
Tensions run high as everyone gangs up on the newbie contestants, and the show’s reputation takes a hit after one team is accused of refusing to pay their bills.
As rumours sweep the island that a team is refusing to pay their tradies, the tension is heating between multiple teams jostling to win the services of one of Australia’s most-prominent auctioneers.
As Kylie whines about the newbies getting a jaw-dropping score for a kitchen they didn’t design, Grant goes on a dobbing spree that gets under the skin of the other teams.
Its chaos on the island after another builder walks off The Block — the second in a month — leaving the show under a dark cloud this season.
The Block judge Darren Palmer has been forced to swallow a massive price discount as he struggles to sell his luxurious Bondi Beach home.
A Block competitor’s foul-mouthed description of a room they had to share a win with is matched only by Mimi’s ruthless critique of the some contestants.
The judges are impressed with most of the teams, but the boys yet again fail to finish, and Kylie’s petulant refusal to use her bonus point sees the prize money split.
Ignoring Block rules, one team member ditches a challenge and earns the wrath of Scott Cam while Courtney flees in tears. And the new contestants are given a nasty reception.
After some of the nastiest scenes ever witnessed in Block history, one team have walked out on the show just five weeks into filming, leaving producers reeling.
If you don’t want to haemorrhage money or even ruin your home, stay clear of these renovations.
One Block team have canned their builders which caused a firestorm on site, while the nastiness between Paige and Jesse that has everyone worried.
One team makes a jaw-droppingly dumb decision to deliberately lose the week, but it’s another’s 1am phone call to a shop staff member that really blows everyone away.
Paige and Jesse’s relationship is getting out of hand while mum of four Kylie continues to deny the existence of small children in her home plans.
One teammate gets on the booze instead of helping finish her bathroom, earning her a serve for being cocky, arrogant and complacent, while another team comes under fire again.
The hit TV show The Block has put the spotlight on a very worrying issue when it comes to buying and selling property.
After finishing a bathroom single-handedly in week one, Ricky and Haydn fall victim to the biggest Block stuff up of all time.
The Block’s newest judge reveals some of what really goes on behind the cameras on the hit renovation show.
The Block judge Darren Palmer is offloading his luxury homes in Byron Bay and Bondi Beach and hoping for a property haul of around $13m.
With Jesse swearing at Foreman Dan, and Paige accusing him of not listening to her, the betrothed pair are at the centre of all the drama on The Block right now.
The Block judge Shaynna Blaze has put up her luxury home for rent for $2500 per week.
After being told to tone it down, now one team is being slagged off for being boring, and the foreman is on the warpath after the boys messed with someone they shouldn’t.
Teams Kristy and Brett, and Leah and Ash trash their own reputations with their behaviour, which causes the other contestants to make an unexpected move.
Block whingers Kristy and Brett are enraged that one team didn’t reward them for their bullying — but their real issue lies with the sisters. Here’s why.
Kristy and Brett go full Mean Girls, revealing their friendship with Steph is fake as Kristy tries to manipulate her into making a costly mistake.
A blunt message from their builder leaves Block team Eliza and Liberty angry, as Leah hands out her very own version of “positivity”.
Leah’s loud and proud lounge proves a big hit while one team’s decision to play it safe, and squeezy, could cost them at auction time.
Sisters Eliza and Liberty face up to some grim budget projections as Leah and Ash go all out with their psychedelic loungeroom. But its an attitude problem that has even The Block’s ‘nice guy’ seeing red.
The judges are wowed by one team’s luxe marble bathroom but left confused by another team’s much-discussed moss wall. See the final scores.
When the moss wall is christened “Shrek’s pubes” it spotlights growing tensions between the teams as they begin work on their living and dining spaces.
Sisters Eliza and Liberty fail to impress with their mouldy bathroom decor, but panic sets in as another team member has to be rushed to hospital.
Sisters Eliza and Liberty’s painting pays off as Block teams gear up for bathroom week and a challenge that will force some to confront their deepest fears.
Two teams cop it from the judges for committing the crime of doing what they’ve been told to do. And one team who cheaped out almost pulled off a shocking win.
The sky is literally falling in around the contestants, as one team’s ceiling gave way, alerting the safety supervisors to potential impending disaster.
With most teams reeling from last night’s judging, one Block team’s mum takes it harder than anyone.
The judges’ absolutely brutal feedback leaves teams reeling on guest bedroom week. See who copped the worst score.
Fresh from accusing Steph of illegally using her dad as a tradie, Leah and Kristy have moved on to point fingers at another team for being sneaky. But the reason is far from what they’d think.
How one team member’s dad ended up helping work on a room has brought about The Block 2023’s first big drama, which results in some heated words at a snap body corporate meeting.
The $4m Byron Bay home of glamour couple Joel Patfull and Elle Ferguson, who controversially quit The Block after just three days, is up for grabs.
A cheating scandal involving a team member’s dad, a new judge and a bitter battle over curves rock The Block in week one. See who’s bathroom won the week.
As the teams rush to complete their bathrooms, two of the teams have turned on Steph saying they can’t trust the emotionally fragile architect.
As Scott Cam reveals some new twists to The Block, the contestants start work on their guest bathrooms. But two teams discover their plans are already going awry.
One Block contestant has never used a wheelbarrow let alone a power tool, while another is a beige-loving architect. And no-one is expecting how the judges would react to the show’s first challenge.
The Block super buyer Danny Wallis is gearing up for another property shopping spree, and has some advice for his new rival, Adrian “Lambo Guy” Portelli.
Watch out Danny Wallis, Adrian ‘Lambo Guy’ Portelli has thrown down the gauntlet for the properties on the upcoming season of The Block.
The sale price of the last property from The Block: Tree Change has been revealed, six months after the finale aired. And an auction day mistake may have cost the show dearly.
Serial Block buyer and Melbourne rich-lister Danny Wallis’ two latest prime-time purchases have hit the rental market in Gisborne.
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