About this season
Property Ladder is the original British version of the television series Property Ladder. Hosted by Sarah Beeny, it follows the journey of amateur property developers as they set out to make a life changing profit from renovating challenging houses. The show underwent a change in format during 2004 and now features two developments per episode rather than one. In early 2009, Channel 4 announced that a new series was to be shown, starting on 9 June, it is the first to be filmed in a struggling market and has been re-titled Property Snakes and Ladders.
Episodes (6)
1. Chingford
Aired 5 April 2005 • 50 min
Sarah meets Sue Silver, a glamorous Essex mother of three who has given up her job as a pharmacy assistant to move into property developing as a way of clearing her debts and funding a more affluent lifestyle.
2. Wellingborough
Aired 12 April 2005 • 50 min
This week's developers think they've found the next property hotspot: Wellingborough in the Northamptonshire commuter belt. But they're taking a big gamble - even playing poker to win free labour from local builders.
3. Treorchy
Aired 19 April 2005 • 49 min
Like thousands of other amateur developers, the Slater family believe the Welsh Valleys are the place to make money from property. But Sarah Beeny isn't so sure that buying three properties at auction is a good idea, especially when you can't even manage to find a builder for the first one.
4. Macclesfield Revisit
Aired 3 May 2005 • 49 min
So where did those rose petals come from then...?
5. Earls Court Revisit
Aired 10 May 2005
Martin Sutherland was convinced he'd found the formula for making money out of developing: take an average three-bed, one bath flat, then squeeze in two more bedrooms and another bathroom, renovate to high spec and rent it out for top dollar to west London's high paid twentysomethings. After 18 months dealing with late rent, difficult tenants and fixing everything from the toilet seats to the door handles, you'd have thought he'd have changed has plan... but not Martin. Sarah Beeny returns to find out why.
6. Winchmore Hill Revisit
Aired 17 May 2005 • 50 min
Mark Standing and Sharon Lennon were never short of confidence. Now they hope to make a staggering profit on their second development. Sounds great, but will they get their asking price and will the last year and a half will be worth the trouble?