Help with identifying a Location Location Location episode please

[thesurreyyouth]

Chatting with DH earlier about our favourite LLL episode & would love to find it on YouTube or All4 but need help please. Involves a couple with quite a large budget looking for a quiet property. Phil & Kirstie showed them a really nice family house (road noise - few cars visible on the road from the long driveway) A barn conversion (can hear a car - camera pans over fields to show 1 vehicle in the distance). P & K get snippy with them as they’re showing them houses that fit the brief the couple asked for. Show ends with P & K visiting the couple’s new house they bought after the show ended. It was close to a busy road & access was through a car park, possibly a pub car park. I just want to rewatch it for the look on Kirstie’s face when she sees the place they ended up buying.

The one I always remember was a couple where the man would only live 0.7 miles from a station (tube I guess?)

He WOULD NOT COMPROMISE and got shitty with Phil showing him stuff he'd asked for within the distance or slightly outside. Dickhead.

MayFayner I agree that they both had a long term plan, but it all seemed very considered, which of course it should be, but just didn't see the spark between them. More head than heart maybe. I hope they made money and moved on together rather than separating or something else. I thought she seemed nice. But they had only been together 2 yrs when they bought it. Not that long really.

@Mayfeyner
Do you know if I can watch those old programmes in Ireland.

@LadyEloise - I've been thinking about that episode too over lockdown (if it's the same one). The woman was saying how she'd love to go into the garden on summer evenings after work to read, and Kirsty said that she may think that now, but realistically you only use a garden three times a year. There is no way on earth that 1. Kirsty only uses HER garden three times a year and 2. That Kirsty would ever buy somewhere without any outside space herself!

I recall it may have been a South London/Brixton episode.

@LadyEloise yes you can- I have the All4 app on my phone/ tablet and it has all the Channel 4 and E4 stuff.

I used to have Sky tv and I think All4 was on that too, if you have Sky.

Thank you.

@Washinginthetimeofcovid

The one I always remember was a couple where the man would only live 0.7 miles from a station (tube I guess?)

He WOULD NOT COMPROMISE and got shitty with Phil showing him stuff he'd asked for within the distance or slightly outside. Dickhead.

Was just about to mention this one. She had a highly-paid non-job in the NHS and he was obsessed with the idea that she wouldn't be able to cope if they had a child and lived more than 0.7 miles from a tube station. I thought he was going to deck Phil at one point.

If anyone could find that, I'd be grateful.

Yes 0.7 was such an arbitrary figure wasn't it?

I thought I remembered that one but I thought it was a 7 minute walk, and Phil found something that would add 12 min to his commute per day but he dismissed it!

Does anyone remember (it was discussed on MN) the episode with the really moany woman from Clapham or Balham who wanted to live in Harrogate, in spite of her dh working in London? She was entirely happy for him to live above a chip shop in a studio flat during the week. I wonder if that marriage lasted...

I remember another episode where a couple started off wanting a 4-bedroomed house to accommodate the dh’s dcs, and then she increasingly was steering proceedings to a 2 bed and saying with a cat’s bum face that they didn’t need the extra room.... Hmmmm.

@Tiktokcringeydance you might be right actually. False memory for me maybe?

I do remember that Phil was polite but the guy just wouldn't budge and was pretty rude.

We actually watched the first episode - filmed late 90s.

They took Polaroids of properties- no mobile phones either. it was adorable.

The chapel one is near us I think ... 1 house with a converted empty chapel in the garden, family use it as a party room (have been a taxi service for my DD from there on several occasions), 1 barn type property in our village and one big extended semi. I think one of the couples buying had come into a bit of cash.

The one that I was open moutbed at was one where the husband had an excel spreadsheet with 36 -non-negotiables- on it including a gravel circular driveway.

Phil came up with the goods. Then the wife said that there was only one road leading to the house and she 'would get bored' driving the same way home every day.

The look on Phil's face. he was completely stunned.

I do remember that Phil was polite but the guy just wouldn't budge and was pretty rude.

Yes I remember that, and thinking ... but what amazing thing are you actually going to do in that whole 10 min extra time you have per day??

Ah thank you for that bit of super sleuthing, I enjoyed that in a schadenfreude kind of way!

Was also watching it wondering if they would smile, or show any kind of emotion or affection at any point, Nope! Agree with the poster who said it felt like a mocumentary - particulary as I've been rewatching Smack the Pony recently and she reminded me of the tall actress in that!

I've just finally watched the episode OP mentioned! Property programmes are my guilty pleasure when I'm ironing (and it took me a while to find and had to set up the laptop in front of the ironing board)
It was definitely worth it, I loved the end when phil commented about the garden. And the poo. And the road noise. And the window!!
Like pp said it's funny how much things change in 15-20 years. I kept wondering what the broadband connections were like in the more rural properties!!

Ohhhhhh @GreenTeaMug what episode is that I fancy watching it?!

I remember another episode where a couple started off wanting a 4-bedroomed house to accommodate the dh’s dcs, and then she increasingly was steering proceedings to a 2 bed and saying with a cat’s bum face that they didn’t need the extra room

Oh I remember that one too. She clearly wanted his DC kept at a distance.

I just looked on E4 and found the one in the city where I live (Plymouth) the couple on it are looking for a family home. He’s a teacher. I just googled him and he’s been sacked for being a pervert to students! How horrible.

The woman who would get bored driving down the same driveway lives perpetually in my brain. The gorgeous double fronted Georgian rectory she binned on that basis...

Does anyone remember the young couple who moved from a flat in London to a massive Scottish house and were planing on running it as a holiday home?

Think they were the very first Relocation couples?

He was a potter and wanted to build a studio. The house they ended up buying was stunning!

I often wonder if they made a go of the business.

I watched the burton bradstock episode and the couple were quite likeable and positive but was really that their budget was 500k (but negotiable) and they looked in their late 20s! (In 2002!)

If there are any clues as to area / names of 36 point spreadsheet and a need for multiple routes to drive home (wtf? Is she in witness protection and needs to avoid setting a pattern?!) it sounds like a smasher

Can't remember at all, and google hasn't helped. But it might be worth watching these 20 years on programmes to see if it features? I remember everyone I knew who watched being outraged by her at the time so it has a good chance of making it into the clips shows.

realscreen.com/2020/05/12/c4-looks-back-at-20-years-of-location-location-location-with-new-series/