Real estate expert and TV presenter Sarah Beeny meets with clever property owners who share their colorful stories about living mortgage free.
In the first episode, Sarah meets Annie from Lincolnshire who bought land for just £25k. She also meets Nick from Kent who snapped up a Victorian flat pack tin chapel for just £90,000.
In this episode, Sarah Beeny meets a young couple who built their first home together on the back of an agricultural trailer for only £25,000, a woman from West Yorkshire who converted three derelict garages for just £12,000, and the creator of an affordable three-bed prefab that can be assembled in a week.
Sarah visit a beautiful lakeside property just outside London, built on land where others were unable to get planning permission. There's also a couple in Surrey have a very clever plan to use the sale of their houseboat to build a mortgage-free floating home, and boost their pension. In the West Midlands, a couple have built a cabin in a relative's garden to be there to help with his Alzheimer's. And a man in Hertfordshire has sold off half of his house, raising £250k for his and his wife's retirement.
Sarah meets a couple building a home out of salvaged lorries for just £5k. And an Edinburgh couple help build a block of money-saving flats.
An inventor plans a futuristic, wheelchair-friendly house for his family in a double-decker bus, all for just £20,000, and a family trade in their costly London life for a debt-free home amid 35 acres of Welsh countryside. Elsewhere, Sarah visits a mortgage-free eco-property in Shropshire, and a salvaged caravan made into a home for just £3,500.
A couple constructs a home from old trailers. A single dad turns a caravan into a luxury home. Two builders make a massive return on their investment.
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