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Series 26: 8. Herefordshire
Sonali Shah helps a couple from Berkshire who are looking for a fresh start in a new home in the Herefordshire countryside, following a life-threatening, life-changing event. Wi ...
16-10-2025
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Series 24: 15. North Yorkshire
Now back in the UK, a young couple crave the outdoors lifestyle they experienced together for nearly three years in New Zealand. Nicki Chapman’s helps them find a new home ...
15-10-2025
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Series 24: 13. The Wye Valley
Jules Hudson explores one of the UK’s most beautiful locations today as he sets about finding the ideal Wye Valley property for his house hunters. Having put their Portuga ...
14-10-2025
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Series 25: 4. Cumbria
Two Eurovision enthusiasts need Denise Nurse’s help to find them, and their cat Larry, a new home in the Cumbrian countryside. Away from the house hunting, Denise meets up ...
11-10-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 1. North West Wales
With an impressive budget of £1.2million and in the stunning landscapes of north west Wales, Sonali Shah brings the dream of owning a property with a house and holiday let ...
10-10-2025
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Series 26: 7. Norfolk And Suffolk Border
Bursting at the seams in their south east London home, a couple with two girls and a lively puppy head to the Norfolk-Suffolk border in search of space and a new adventure. Stev ...
10-10-2025
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Series 24: 10. South West Wales
Having lived in the same house virtually all her life, today’s ukelele-playing buyer has £280,000 to relocate to south west Wales. Briony May Williams is tasked with ...
09-10-2025
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Series 24: 1. Moray
A couple hope their £400,000 budget will buy them a slice of rural bliss in Moray in Scotland, where Jules Hudson is eager to show them the very best property on offer. Ju ...
08-10-2025
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Series 24: 9. Yorkshire
Seeking a less hectic lifestyle in Yorkshire, a London couple have £425,000 to spend on a new home, and Steve Brown is on hand to help them find it. Steve also pays a visi ...
07-10-2025
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Series 24: 5. North Yorkshire
Briony May Williams helps to make dreams come true for a buyer with an ambition of moving to the North Yorkshire countryside on a £250,000 budget. Then, she takes her esca ...
05-10-2025
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Series 24: 6. Norfolk
Denise Nurse is in Norfolk, with a buyer who wants to move closer to her family, and who has her son in tow for support. With the popularity of the staycation, Denise also meets ...
04-10-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 13. East Riding Of Yorkshire
Armed with a top budget of £450,000, Jules Hudson property shops with a couple wanting to make a permanent move from Kent to the scenic East Riding of Yorkshire. They are ...
03-10-2025
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Series 24: 4. Somerset And Gloucestershire
Having spent 25 years in the Netherlands, a retired opera singer and a music teacher approaching retirement have decided that now is the right time to return to the UK and, with ...
02-10-2025
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Series 26: 6. Shropshire
Nicki Chapman helps a couple, and their ginger cat, from the city of Wolverhampton to search for a new home and lifestyle in Shropshire’s beautiful countryside. She showca ...
02-10-2025
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Series 25: 47. Devon
Nicki Chapman is property shopping in Devon with a pair of entrepreneurial sisters who dream of creating their very own glamping business. Keen to discover more about the holida ...
01-10-2025
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Series 23: 55. Yorkshire
Jules Hudson is in his element as he explores the glorious countryside of North and West Yorkshire with a couple from a market town in West Sussex. Jules has a superb selection ...
30-09-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Northumberland
Needing more space for books as well as an impressive collection of rocks, today’s couple from Edinburgh have Alistair Appleton to help them with their rural relocation in ...
28-09-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 10. Cotswolds
Alistair Appleton guides a pair of budding entrepreneurs who want to escape to the Cotswolds. They have a generous £900,000 to play with, but the property must have the po ...
26-09-2025
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Series 24: 51. Bedfordshire Borders
A house with as much natural light as possible is top of today’s property shopping list, and Jules Hudson is just the chap to find it in the region of the Bedfordshire bor ...
25-09-2025
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Series 24: 50. The Lake District
Having been to the Lake District over 50 times, today’s couple have decided to stop visiting and start living in one of the UK’s most spectacular national parks. The ...
24-09-2025
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Series 24: 48. East Midlands
A young couple want to swap their London flat for something bigger in the East Midlands, where Nicki Chapman opens the front doors to a lovely selection of homes with charming g ...
23-09-2025
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Series 25: 44. Somerset
Sonali Shah is house-hunting with a couple from New York who want to swap the Big Apple for a bite of the sunny Somerset countryside. Working with a very healthy budget, Sonali ...
22-09-2025
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Series 24: 24. Norfolk
On a bid to escape the city, today’s couple and their three children are looking for a change of lifestyle for the whole family, and Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk to help th ...
21-09-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 9. Norfolk
Ginny Buckley presents an arresting range of houses to a couple who have a substantial budget of £700,000 and are hoping to relocate their family to the wonderful Norfolk ...
19-09-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): Episode 3
Jules Hudson is in Derbyshire with a recently married couple who are making an epic location shift and swapping the Blue Mountains in Australia for the wilds of the Peak Distric ...
18-09-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 3. Dumfries And Galloway
Alistair Appleton helps an aspiring writer who wants to make a dramatic relocation from the frenetic bustle of East London to the rural idylls of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotla ...
17-09-2025
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Series 26: 5. North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire’s wide-open spaces are the ideal playground for a couple and their four children from a busy Hampshire town, who can’t wait to swap suburbia for a li ...
17-09-2025
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Series 24: 3. Northumbria
Denise Nurse helps a couple so fed up with the eight-hour round trip to see their son in Northumbria that they’ve decided to move there instead. Denise has the keys to som ...
16-09-2025
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Series 23: 7. Devon
Devon is today’s destination, where Nicki Chapman helps a couple from south London with a £500,000 budget to search for their dream home in the countryside. Wanting ...
14-09-2025
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Series 23: 4. Cornwall
A young, water-loving couple are looking to escape to Cornwall with their young daughter. They have £620,000 to spend on their new Cornish home. \n\nSteve Brown also gets ...
13-09-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Cumbria
Briony May Williams teams up with a retired Shakespeare scholar who wants to write a new chapter in the Cumbrian countryside for her £300,000 budget. Away from the house h ...
12-09-2025
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Series 25: 40. The Wye Valley
Family come first as Ginny Buckley explores the Wye Valley with a couple whose move is fuelled by a desire to be closer to their grandchildren. Along the way, Ginny visits a fam ...
11-09-2025
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Series 25: 25. Argyll And Bute
There’s no place quite like Argyll and Bute, or so says Denise Nurse’s buyer, who wants to return there from Kent. Taking a break from the house hunting, Denise hops ...
10-09-2025
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Series 26: 4. The Midlands
Richie Anderson joins the show's line-up as he helps a couple of born-and-bred Brummies to find the perfect character property on his home turf of the rural Midlands. A turnkey, ...
10-09-2025
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Series 25: 20. East Devon Borders
With their children fledged, today’s couple has decided to move from the busy city of Nottingham to the peace and quiet of the east Devon borders, where Jules Hudson is on ...
09-09-2025
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Series 22: 38. Welsh Borders
In the Welsh Borders, Jules Hudson is the local with the lowdown, helping a retired colonel and his wife with their property shopping requirements. Jules also meets up with a gr ...
07-09-2025
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Series 25: 45. Dorset
There’s no time like the present for Alistair Appleton's buyers, who hope to realise a lifelong dream of living by the sea in Dorset. Together, they tour a variety of prom ...
06-09-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): The Cotswolds
Alistair Appleton is on a property-hunting mission in the beautiful Cotswolds with a couple who want a location with dog walks on their doorstep, as well as decent dining option ...
05-09-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 18. Somerset
Today’s house hunting couple are looking to relocate to the Somerset countryside with the help of Alistair Appleton. They have a budget of £700,000 to find a rural h ...
04-09-2025
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Series 25: 36. Surrey
Denise Nurse helps newlyweds who want to escape London and find a more serene lifestyle in the splendid Surrey countryside. The couple are desperate for a garden so they can ful ...
03-09-2025
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Series 25: 34. Somerset And Devon
A London-based couple want to escape from the city to carve out a new life in either Somerset or Devon, where Briony May Williams has the keys to some wonderful countryside prop ...
02-09-2025
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Series 26: 3. Kent
Kent’s charming cottages and picturesque countryside are calling to a mum and son ready to settle in the county after years living overseas. With their budget of £35 ...
01-09-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 1. Devon
Jules Hudson teams up with a calligrapher from east London who has a £400k budget with which to write a new chapter in the West Country. Jules also gets in tune with the r ...
31-08-2025
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Series 25: 33. North Yorkshire
Jules Hudson helps a rock-climbing couple from an East Midlands town look for a new, rural home that gives them access to the hills and dales of North Yorkshire. Whilst in the c ...
30-08-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Herefordshire
Living a few miles from Belfast is just too far from family, so now they’ve retired, today’s couple want to move back to England, to Herefordshire, where Briony May ...
29-08-2025
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Series 25: 31. Kent
In his home county of Kent, Steve Brown helps two newlyweds from London find a new, spacious and dog-friendly family home in the countryside. Steve also meets another couple who ...
28-08-2025
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Series 25: 29. Hampshire And Wiltshire
Wanting to move to a quieter location than where they currently live, today’s couple have tasked Denise Nurse to find them a new rural retreat in the Hampshire or Wiltshir ...
27-08-2025
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Series 26: 2. Devon
House-hunting in the gorgeous Devon countryside, Jules Hudson helps two retired drama teachers trade busy Sheffield for some coastal calm. Jules has some splendid properties up ...
27-08-2025
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Series 25: 27. West Sussex
After 15 years living and working in Dubai, two expats want to return home to the UK and need Sonali Shah’s help to find them a new home in wonderful West Sussex. Sonali a ...
26-08-2025
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Series 25: 22. Staffordshire And Derbyshire
A career change means today’s buyers urgently need Alistair Appleton’s help in finding them a rural property in the Derbyshire or Staffordshire countryside. Whilst i ...
22-08-2025
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Series 25: 21. North Yorkshire
Today’s couple are newly retired, newly engaged, and with the help of Briony May Williams, are now looking for a new home surrounded by North Yorkshire’s spectacular ...
21-08-2025
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Series 23: 47. Suffolk
Ginny Buckley is in Suffolk, helping a retired couple from Essex find a new home in a thriving village as close to the county’s coast as their £475,000 budget will a ...
20-08-2025
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Series 26: 1. Argyll And Bute
On Argyll and Bute’s breathtaking Kintyre peninsula, a couple from suburban Cheshire discover you really can buy a house with a million-dollar view without a million-dolla ...
20-08-2025
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Series 23: 39. Cumbria
Alistair Appleton meets a couple who are looking for a complete change of lifestyle in the Cumbrian countryside. Their relocation is driven by a desire to be closer to their dau ...
19-08-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Cairngorms
Jules Hudson takes in Scotland’s stunning Cairngorms as he helps a couple from the Isle of Wight find a rural property that will fulfil their ambitions for both a new home ...
17-08-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 18. Shropshire
With ambitions to start a cookery school in Shropshire, a couple from Hertfordshire get a helping hand from Nicki Chapman to spend £900,000 on a new home for their new lif ...
15-08-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 14. Norfolk
Nicki Chapman is in Norfolk with a couple from Northamptonshire who have lived and worked all over the world. With a whopping £1 million to spend, the globetrotting pair w ...
14-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 10. Welsh Borders
Sonali Shah meets a couple from a Surrey town who want to escape to the Welsh Borders for a quieter pace of life. They are hoping to use their £620,000 budget to purchase ...
13-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 14. Cornwall
Jules Hudson joins a couple in their search for their perfect retirement retreat in the Cornish countryside on a budget of £400,000. Taking some time out from house huntin ...
12-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 9. South Yorkshire
It’s the call of home that’s luring today’s couple to head to the beautiful landscape of South Yorkshire, and Alistair Appleton is supporting them on their hou ...
11-08-2025
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Series 24: 32. Welsh Borders
With a budget of £400,000, an ambitious young couple from the West Midlands has the help of Sonali Shah to find a renovation project and a couple of acres of land in the W ...
10-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 2. Hampshire/ New Forest
Sonali Shah is welcoming back two returning expats, after 20 years living abroad in America. They have a healthy £950k budget for a spacious country home in Hampshire&rsqu ...
09-08-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 8. Carmarthenshire
Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to return to their Welsh homeland after 20 years of living in Oxford. The pair have a budget of £450,000 to find the right hom ...
08-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 13. Devon
Ginny Buckley meets a couple who are looking to lay down roots in Devon after decades serving in the army. They have a £400,000 budget to find their ideal home near the En ...
07-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 19. Hampshire
Sonali Shah scours Hampshire’s property market to find somewhere for a couple who are temporarily relying on the goodwill of family. They have a £600k budget and wan ...
06-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 16. Devon
Jules Hudson joins a couple who hope to realise their dream of escaping to Devon. They have a generous budget of £1.4 million and hope to find a property with land, a self ...
05-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 3. Cornwall
A couple from Worcestershire have Alistair Appleton on hand to help them find the perfect home in Cornwall for their £650k budget. Away from property, Alistair also discov ...
04-08-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): County Antrim And County Down
It’s an emotional homecoming today and a first for Jules Hudson as he visits County Down and County Antrim for some property shopping in Northern Ireland. He’s with ...
03-08-2025
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Series 25: 24. Northumberland
Sonali Shah is in the magnificent countryside of Northumberland, helping three generations of the same family to make an escape from Leicester and find a new rural home together ...
02-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 17. West Sussex
Ginny Buckley meets a couple hoping to swap the busy city of Oxford for the peaceful West Sussex coast on a budget of £600,000. Making the most of her time in the South Do ...
01-08-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 5. South Wales
Jules Hudson heads to south Wales with a husband and wife who, after three decades of military housing, are looking for their very own country home and have a budget of £4 ...
31-07-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 6. Devon And Dorset
Now that her sons have fledged the nest, today’s buyer wants a new lease of life in a rural home that has business potential. She’s set her sights on either Devon or ...
30-07-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 8. Dorset
In true Escape to the Country style, today’s couple (both former international rugby players) want to leave London in search of a rural idyll in Dorset, and Alistair Apple ...
29-07-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 3. Monmouthshire
A young couple from London have £325,000 to spend on a new rural home, and it’s Sonali Shah who is leading the search in the Monmouthshire countryside. Sonali takes ...
28-07-2025
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 19. Somerset
A young Essex couple need Nicki Chapman’s help to find them a new home in lovely Somerset, and fast. They have £725,000 to spend on a property for their growing fami ...
27-07-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 6. East Midlands
Three generations of one family want to move to the East Midlands, and the task of finding a new home for them all has fallen on mum, grandma, and Ginny Buckley. Away from looki ...
25-07-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 6. Perth And Kinross
Jules Hudson shows today's buyer around some excellent and innovative property choices in the magical landscape of Perth and Kinross that fit his budget of £210,000. Jules ...
24-07-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 8. Oxfordshire
A globetrotting couple have decided to move back home for good, and Nicki Chapman lends a hand as they look for a new address in Oxfordshire’s lovely countryside for their ...
23-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): South West Wales
Looking for a new adventure in south west Wales, today’s couple have £400,000 to find a new home with at least an acre of land for glamping and a forestry school. Gi ...
22-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Buckinghamshire And Oxfordshire
Having spent the past four years living in the US state of Texas, today’s couple and their two young children are returning to the UK and have tasked Sonali Shah to help t ...
21-07-2025
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Series 22: 48. Derbyshire
Having sold up his home in the large Bedfordshire town of Luton, today’s buyer has already relocated to a rental in Derbyshire, but has called on the expertise of Sonali S ...
19-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): The Chilterns
Living with their baby boy in a one-bedroom flat in south London, today’s couple need more space, which they want to find in the lovely Chiltern Hills. Alistair Appleton h ...
18-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Cumbria
Wanting to move closer to their family, Nicki Chapman celebrates the arrival of her buyers’ first grandchild by helping them find a new home in Cumbria. Nicki also meets a ...
17-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): The Fens
Steve Brown’s escapees from a large Bedfordshire town want to relocate to the fabulous Fens to start a glamping business, so at least an acre of land is a priority. Steve ...
16-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): East Midlands
A young couple want to swap their London flat for something bigger in the East Midlands, where Nicki Chapman opens the front doors to a beautiful selection of homes with lovely ...
15-07-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Cornwall
Jules Hudson gets to show off a gloriously sunny Cornwall to an entrepreneurial couple who are on the lookout for a property with potential for a holiday let business as well as ...
14-07-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 6. Somerset
Jules Hudson is house-hunting in Somerset with a couple looking for a rural home that must have annexe potential for their parents. During his time in the county, Jules visits t ...
29-06-2025
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Series 20 (extended Versions): 8. Wiltshire
Today’s house hunters are preparing for a triumphant homecoming after a quarter of a century living in Sweden. Nicki Chapman guides the pair in their search for a perfect ...
28-06-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Bedfordshire Borders
Even though the daily commute from London to their Bedfordshire business is taking its toll, Nicki Chapman has her work cut out persuading one half of today’s couple to mo ...
27-06-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): West Yorkshire
In wonderful West Yorkshire, Nicki Chapman is with a young couple from Manchester who have a budget of £270,000 to find a home in the countryside for them and their baby s ...
26-06-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): East Midlands
Sonali Shah tours the East Midlands in search of a property to suit today’s buyers who, for the last 23 years, have been living in the USA. Sonali also meets another coupl ...
25-06-2025
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Series 24 (extended Versions): Pembrokeshire
Nicki Chapman is on the hunt for a Pembrokeshire property with a holiday let to suit a couple with very different wants and needs. Nicki also visits some entrepreneurs who&rsquo ...
24-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 13. Somerset And Devon
With the help of Alistair Appleton, a couple want to escape land-locked life in a Leicestershire town and relocate to a county with a coastline. So, they’ve decided to mak ...
23-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 12. Dorset
Having grown out of their town flat, two newlyweds with a budget of £400,000 need Ginny Buckley’s help to find a new home in the Dorset countryside that has enough s ...
20-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): Lancashire
After 16 years ‘down under’, Jules Hudson helps a couple to come back to Blighty. Their £450,000 budget might not stretch quite as far in Lancashire as it did ...
19-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 14. Norfolk
Having fallen in love with Norfolk a little more with each visit, a couple have decided to make the county their forever home, and Denise Nurse is there to help them find their ...
18-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 11. West Sussex
Alistair Appleton relishes being in his home county of West Sussex as he shows off some of its many delights including, of course, a selection of beautiful properties. He’ ...
17-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 5. Northumberland
Finally able to search for their forever home and a more settled way of life, a former royal marine and a retired civil servant have £375,000 to spend and the expert guida ...
16-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 4. Norfolk
Sonali Shah goes house-hunting in Norfolk with a buyer who has holidayed there throughout her life and now wants to make the county her home and business address. She wants to e ...
13-06-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): Devon And Dorset
Today’s escapees want to raise their children near the sea, so Jules Hudson takes them to view a selection of wonderful homes in the Devon and Dorset countryside. Away fro ...
12-06-2025
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