How popular are house hunting shows in your country?
March 2, 2025
Does your country like house hunting shows?
7 comments
I don’t think there’s any house hunting show in Portugal. You see, usually we don’t want to watch a show about something we struggle to do every day.
Shows are to distract us from what we did during the day, not live it again.
We get to experience that in first person
Popular in the UK since early 2000s but a bit of a tired format. The most well known one is ‘Location Location’. Does tend to bring out some envy when it’s upper middle class families dropping a million quid in some idyllic village in the home counties.
We have some doer up type shows too, more daytime TV. One is called ‘Homes Under the Hammer’ where people buy dilapidated homes at auction to do them up. Usually these are landlord types slowly acquiring a rental property portfolio.
They got millions of those in Denmark.
But I don’t think anybody watches it anymore, it is just proper filler tv.
Most common is probably “Kender du typen” (“Do you know the type of person?”). Lifestyle experts try to guess who lives in the given house/appartment that they visit, and tells some basic stuff about trends. It is realllly cringe imho.
Houses are amongst the most immobile targets known to man, they’re huge and notoriously bad at camouflage. I can’t imagine that anyone would enjoy watching people shoot houses.
Boar hunting would attract a larger audience.
Pretty popular in Belgium, and I kinda love to watch them. Blind gekocht(Bought blindly), Huis Gemaakt (Home, Made) and Ons Huis Nieuw Huis (Our house, new house) and some other ones are annually on tv for a season and always get renewed so I think they are popular with the general public too.
Huis Gemaakt is a programme where 6-8 couples compete to win a house by fully stripping it and renovating it. This show has a big budget as they buy like 3-4 houses. Kinda fun to watch the struggle and even though it’s really hard work for them… I mean you win like a 400.000 euro home low key if you win so very much worth.
Blind gekocht is kinda obvious, people sign up with certain criteria and budget and the showrunners buy them a home that they don’t get to see, but they also have sponsors so they will also do some renovation work on it like changing windows, new roof, new kitchen.. etc, seems like a good deal about 80% of the time. There are always some very difficult searches like finding a 3 bedroom home for like 180k or so that isn’t absolutely trashy, pretty much impossible but with the sponsors they manage.
Never seen one before, but I think they could be popular – similar to the escapism of window shopping.
Not popular in Portugal, but in cable TV it’s possible to watch British, US and Canada house hunting programmes.
7 comments
I don’t think there’s any house hunting show in Portugal. You see, usually we don’t want to watch a show about something we struggle to do every day.
Shows are to distract us from what we did during the day, not live it again.
We get to experience that in first person
Popular in the UK since early 2000s but a bit of a tired format. The most well known one is ‘Location Location’. Does tend to bring out some envy when it’s upper middle class families dropping a million quid in some idyllic village in the home counties.
We have some doer up type shows too, more daytime TV. One is called ‘Homes Under the Hammer’ where people buy dilapidated homes at auction to do them up. Usually these are landlord types slowly acquiring a rental property portfolio.
They got millions of those in Denmark.
But I don’t think anybody watches it anymore, it is just proper filler tv.
Most common is probably “Kender du typen” (“Do you know the type of person?”). Lifestyle experts try to guess who lives in the given house/appartment that they visit, and tells some basic stuff about trends. It is realllly cringe imho.
Houses are amongst the most immobile targets known to man, they’re huge and notoriously bad at camouflage. I can’t imagine that anyone would enjoy watching people shoot houses.
Boar hunting would attract a larger audience.
Pretty popular in Belgium, and I kinda love to watch them. Blind gekocht(Bought blindly), Huis Gemaakt (Home, Made) and Ons Huis Nieuw Huis (Our house, new house) and some other ones are annually on tv for a season and always get renewed so I think they are popular with the general public too.
Huis Gemaakt is a programme where 6-8 couples compete to win a house by fully stripping it and renovating it. This show has a big budget as they buy like 3-4 houses. Kinda fun to watch the struggle and even though it’s really hard work for them… I mean you win like a 400.000 euro home low key if you win so very much worth.
Blind gekocht is kinda obvious, people sign up with certain criteria and budget and the showrunners buy them a home that they don’t get to see, but they also have sponsors so they will also do some renovation work on it like changing windows, new roof, new kitchen.. etc, seems like a good deal about 80% of the time. There are always some very difficult searches like finding a 3 bedroom home for like 180k or so that isn’t absolutely trashy, pretty much impossible but with the sponsors they manage.
Never seen one before, but I think they could be popular – similar to the escapism of window shopping.
Not popular in Portugal, but in cable TV it’s possible to watch British, US and Canada house hunting programmes.