Channel 4’s Property Ladder is compulsive watching because of its ever-present promise of lots of cash for the most hapless of property developers.
The format on the programme has remained the same throughout all six series aired since 2001.
A couple buys a property with the view to develop it in some way and then sells it on for a substantial profit. They budget naively for the build costs, blithely describe the work that they intend to do themselves and then spend months attempting to realise their own ridiculous ideas, before reverting to the suggestions that presenter and successful developer Sarah Beeny made back at the beginning of the project.
