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Britain's Empty Homes

Factual: Homes & Gardens: Homes

Show revealing the potential vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle.

Series revealing the great potential that vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle, and following the work of the nation's empty property officers.

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 2

Jules Hudson

Rob Butterfield

Britain's Empty Homes: Series 2: Episode 11: Rekha Patel

Episode 11

Episode 11: Rekha Patel

Series 2

Rekha Patel

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Presenter Jules Hudson helps a maths teacher get started renovating an empty house.

Property series. Maths teacher Rekah Patel is moving out of the family home to buy an empty house in need of work. Presenter Jules Hudson helps her get started.

Maths teacher Rekah Patel has decided it's time to move out of the family home and buy her first house. With high hopes but a low budget, Rekah figured buying an empty house in need of work would be an affordable way to get her perfect place.

She's done well to find a grade II listed Georgian stone cottage in a pretty village on the edge of the Peak District. But with no renovation experience to transform it into her dream home, Rekha is in need of some friendly advice. 

And it comes in the shape of Jules Hudson. Jules meets up with Rekha for a tour of the property to see what needs prioritising and introduces her to a couple who are part way through the renovation a of an old mill which dates back to the 1600s with additions built on in the 1820's, which had stood empty for five years before they snapped it up.

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Jules Hudson reveals the great potential that vacant places can offer in terms of budget and lifestyle, and follows the work of the nation's Empty Property Officers.

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