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This week, Relocation, Relocation is in the West Country and this search definitely comes with a health warning! IT Consultant Dominic Clark and his wife Stephanie are a pair of shrewd operators. They’ve been successfully riding the property wave since they got together. It was the birth of their son Oscar just over a year ago that prompted the change – now a full time mum, the priority for Steph is to have a long-term family home near Bristol to be close to her parents and sister.
Meet hard-working 28 year-olds Rikita and Dony Patel. She works in the city and he has a high-flying job in pharmaceuticals - but what they really want is to play happy families. For two years they’ve been searching for the perfect pad to make a new life ... and four months ago they found it.
A four bedroomed house, just half an hour from Rikita’s parents in Shirley, Croydon, with a large garden and most importantly, plenty of room to extend. But just days before they were due to move in, Rikita and Dony became one of the first casualties of the credit crunch; their mortgage was withdrawn. Like a growing number of buyers, they lost the house because of nervous lenders.
Thirty-somethings Helen and Grant live in the leafy suburbs of Forest Hill, South East London. This alternative couple work in the creative side of advertising and are keen to uproot themselves from their tranquil pastures and buy their first property together in the more trendy, post-industrial corners of North East London.
But that's not all...
Because Kirstie and Phil like a challenge, they also need to find a new home in Kent for Grant’s parents. Ray and Connie are moving a whopping 6,000 miles from Durban, South Africa, to be reunited with their family - who have been living apart for 10 years.
Grant and Helen want to share in this idyllic Kent lifestyle too, as well as getting a foothold on a fast paced life in London, so they’re stumping up a good chunk of the cash for the Kent home to share with mum and dad at the weekend.
Ultra-cautious couple Damon Barbour and Gemma Kerr want to move out of the Big Smoke into the Surrey countryside. But as well as the perfect home, they want the perfect investment property in Berlin.
Kirstie and Phil are helping a couple who are turning the usual relocation dream on its head and wanting to escape to London, not away from it. Bristol-based couple Louise Buckles and Peter Melrose are finding that their work is mainly in London; and so they want their main house there, while holding on to the rural idyll by keeping a little place in the Wiltshire countryside.
Hertfordshire couple Helen and Paul are giving up the security of their mortgage-free home in Hertfordshire, and taking on a huge business loan. Even with a £1.4 million budget, this search won't be a stroll down the aisle for Kirstie and Phil. Paul's set on starting a business from scratch, and with Kirstie and Phil finding it can take up to two years for a new venue to get its first booking, the pressure is on.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer come to the aid of Inyang and Gregor Ross, who have sold their three-storey Glasgow townhouse and want to move to Cornwall in search of a more close-knit community and better weather. The experts face tough challenges, knowing that the Rosses have only three weeks left in their current accommodation, and require a property with enough space for a family business.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Beefeater Simon Dodd and his wife Pauline, who currently live in the Tower of London, find a new property they can call home. The couple have grown tired of occupying a historic landmark and want a place in Hampshire as well as a bolthole on the Kent coast.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help Victoria Wills and Frank Russell with a £1.5million business expansion project that also has to serve as a home. The experts embark on a wide search that spans properties in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire, but have their work cut out when they find the original plans have radically changed.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer help married couple, Alex and Phillip, who are looking for a 10-bedroom house with excellent scenery near Darlington in north-east England, but their budget may not be enough to buy such a large property. To make matters worse, they would also like a ski chalet in the French Alps.
Eighteen months after their first meeting, Kirstie Allsopp revisits Johnny and Lynsay Davies, who relocated from London to be nearer Lynsay's parents in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to see how they are getting on following the move
Phil and Kirstie return to visit mother and daughter Sarah and Gill Currie who found their dream rural pub with B&B. Is life behind the bar as fulfilling as they'd hoped it would be?
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer catch up with a couple who moved from Hertfordshire to Devon. They were looking for a better quality of life, and decided to move closer to the sea to enjoy watersports. They also wanted to help a relative buy a place of their own in Bristol.
Phil revisits Allison and Mark, four years since the arrival of their first baby made the couple decide to trade in their London lifestyle for a different pace of life on the Kent coast. After a hard search and long negotiations, they managed to find their dream property with a budget of £700,000, but the presenter also learns how an earthquake threatened to bring the building down.
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit a couple who moved from Swindon to Devon five years earlier looking for a surfer's pad. The initial search was difficult for all involved, but Kirstie is impressed by the revamped home and declares it her all-time favourite property location.
