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Series 20: 16. The High Weald
A south London couple have high hopes of escaping the rat race and finding their dream home in the High Weald with the help of Alistair Appleton. The pair have a hearty budget o ...
28-03-2025
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Series 25: 43. Wiltshire
A buyer looks to swap her London home of almost 50 years for the wonderful Wiltshire countryside. A move of this magnitude can be quite a daunting prospect, so to help allay any ...
28-03-2025
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Series 23: 27. Wiltshire
The pressure is on Nicki Chapman to find today’s couple their perfect property in wonderful Wiltshire, as they have already sold their London home. Away from house hunting ...
27-03-2025
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Series 24: 29. Buckinghamshire Borders
Helping a young couple from the city of St Albans, Briony May Williams heads to Buckinghamshire to find a fabulous countryside escape for them and Dexter the dog. Aside from all ...
26-03-2025
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Series 25: 42. The Chilterns
The sun is shining for Nicki Chapman as she helps a young couple leave behind the hustle and bustle of London for the peaceful charm of the Chiltern Hills. They’re on the ...
26-03-2025
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Series 22: 33. The Lothians
Jules Hudson prepares himself for a beautiful but bracing property adventure in the lowlands of Scotland as he travels around the Lothians. He’s with a buyer from Edinburg ...
21-03-2025
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Series 24: 27. Scottish Borders
Denise Nurse shows off the magnificent Scottish Borders in all their glory to a young couple looking to make a big countryside escape. One half wants to open a veterinary practi ...
20-03-2025
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Series 25: 41. Suffolk
We visit the wonderful county of Suffolk, where a teacher is looking for somewhere to finally settle down after three decades of travelling the world. She has a budget of £ ...
20-03-2025
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Series 25: 6. Devon
Sonali Shah helps a young couple who are looking forward to buying their first house together in the picturesque countryside of Devon. Sonali also takes to the water as she lear ...
19-03-2025
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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 ...
19-03-2025
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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 ...
15-03-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 1. West Sussex
Today, we have a marvellous multi-generational move to consider as Alistair Appleton guides one family, spread over four generations, to find two houses in one village! It&rsquo ...
14-03-2025
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Series 25: 5. North Buckinghamshire
The bluebells are out in Buckinghamshire as Briony May Williams shows some splendid countryside properties to a couple wanting to escape from the Warwickshire town of Rugby. And ...
13-03-2025
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Series 25: 39. Devon
Alistair Appleton heads to Devon, with a mother and daughter who hope to find a new countryside home for the whole family in or near Dartmoor National Park. Business potential i ...
13-03-2025
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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 ...
12-03-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): Oxfordshire And Wiltshire
Briony May Williams is with a couple from London in the market for a new home in the countryside of Oxfordshire or Wiltshire that has enough space for them and their two young s ...
07-03-2025
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Series 24: 25. Welsh Borders
A couple from Reading in Berkshire want to escape and set up home in the Welsh Borders, somewhere with enough land to keep a menagerie of animals. Steve Brown helps them with th ...
06-03-2025
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Series 25: 38. South Wales
Sonali Shah is in south Wales, helping an outdoor enthusiast and her three pint-sized chihuahuas sniff out a home in the countryside. With a budget of £180,000, they&rsquo ...
06-03-2025
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Series 25: 1. The Highlands
Alistair Appleton is in the Highlands of Scotland with an artistic couple whose aspirations include starting their own music festival among the magnificent mountains the region ...
05-03-2025
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Series 25: 37. Leicestershire
Jules Hudson is property-shopping in the Leicestershire countryside with a young couple who are hoping to buy their very first home together. Whilst in the county, Jules also me ...
04-03-2025
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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 ...
01-03-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 4. West Yorkshire
In West Yorkshire, Steve Brown supports an artist who is looking to leave London to realise her ambition of living life in the countryside. Steve also visits the town of Todmord ...
28-02-2025
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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 ...
28-02-2025
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Series 25: 2. Cornwall
A couple from Kent want to head west to Cornwall to house-hunt for a property where they can create a wellness retreat, and Jules Hudson is just the man to help them find it. Ta ...
27-02-2025
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Series 24: 55. The Isle Of Skye
It’s an island escape in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides today, where Denise Nurse is tasked with finding a permanent home for a family who’ve spent the last year tr ...
26-02-2025
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Series 25: 35. The Wye Valley
In the wonderful Wye Valley, Sonali Shah goes house-hunting with a couple from the Australian state of Tasmania, who are looking to buy their first home together. Sonali also dr ...
26-02-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 10. Anglesey
It’s an island escape as Jules Hudson helps a couple from a town in Cheshire to find their dream home on Anglesey. During a busy week of house hunting, Jules turns his att ...
21-02-2025
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Series 24: 23. The Peak District
Denise Nurse delivers the Peak District on a plate as she helps a couple from a town in Oxfordshire to find their dream country home for a budget of £450,000. Whilst in th ...
20-02-2025
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Series 24: 22. Perth And Kinross
Sonali Shah marvels at the majesty of Perth and Kinross as she helps a couple from a large town on England’s south coast to find their dream country escape in Scotland. Wi ...
19-02-2025
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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 ...
18-02-2025
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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 ...
17-02-2025
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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 ...
15-02-2025
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 3. Anglesey
Feeling an affinity for Wales, and in particular the island of Anglesey, a Canadian couple task Briony May Williams with finding them the stone cottage they’ve always drea ...
14-02-2025
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Series 24: 21. Warwickshire
Missing family and the great British countryside, today’s couple are heading home to Warwickshire having spent the last six years living and working in the USA. Jules Huds ...
13-02-2025
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Series 24: 20. Northamptonshire
Wanting to leave town life behind them, this episode's couple have their sights set on a new countryside home in Northamptonshire, and Ginny Buckley is on hand to help them find ...
12-02-2025
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Series 25: 32. The Jurassic Coast
Alistair Appleton is hoping his selection of seaside properties passes the test as he helps a retired schoolteacher find a new home on Devon and Dorset's Jurassic Coast for her ...
11-02-2025
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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 ...
10-02-2025
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Series 24: 54. Cheshire
A young couple currently living in Manchester are hoping to up sticks to the Cheshire countryside with their young daughter. They have requested a four bedroom, detached family ...
08-02-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 2. Wiltshire
With their entire belongings in two rucksacks, today’s couple have spent the last six years travelling the globe. With £325,000 the pair have decided they need a bas ...
07-02-2025
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Series 25: 30. East Devon
In between marveling at the majestic countryside on offer in east Devon, Nicki Chapman goes house hunting with a couple of Londoners who are itching to move to this beautiful re ...
07-02-2025
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Series 24: 19. Hampshire
In Hampshire, Steve Brown has some excellent houses in his property shopping bag to show today’s couple who, along with their two children and two tortoises, want to live ...
06-02-2025
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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 ...
06-02-2025
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Series 24: 18. 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 ...
05-02-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 8. Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire beckons today’s couple, who are looking for the peace and quiet the county has to offer. Steve Brown guides them on their house hunt, and he also visits Biggl ...
31-01-2025
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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 ...
30-01-2025
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Series 23: 25. Cambridgeshire
A keen singer from south east London, accompanied by her good friend, needs help to find a new home in Cambridgeshire with her budget of £360,000. Sonali Shah is only too ...
29-01-2025
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Series 25: 28. Herefordshire
Today’s couple are lost for words at the amazing properties shown to them in Jules Hudson’s beloved Herefordshire. They need enough space for themselves, the dog and ...
29-01-2025
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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 ...
25-01-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): Episode 10
A series which helps prospective buyers find their dream home in the country.
24-01-2025
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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 ...
24-01-2025
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Series 24: 17. Perth And Kinross
Jules Hudson is in Perth and Kinross, helping a young couple with a budget of £350,000 to find an ideal country home for them and their two young sons. Jules also meets a ...
23-01-2025
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Series 23: 30. 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 ...
22-01-2025
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Series 22: 19. Lincolnshire
A desire to move closer to family and the need for a new single-storey home is fuelling today’s buyers to make the move from Birmingham to the Lincolnshire countryside. Ju ...
20-01-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 13. Shropshire
Chris Bavin and today’s couple marvel at Shropshire’s stunning countryside in between checking out some tempting homes from the county’s property market. Takin ...
17-01-2025
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Series 24: 49. Suffolk
Denise Nurse is in Suffolk, helping a couple find a new home in a more rural setting, where they can enjoy retired life together, closer to the coast, lakes or waterways. Also o ...
12-01-2025
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 11. Suffolk
Suffolk is today’s destination for Steve Brown and a couple from London who have £575,000 to spend on a new home from where they want to kick-start their new life in ...
10-01-2025
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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 ...
04-01-2025
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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 ...
03-01-2025
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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 ...
02-01-2025
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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 ...
29-12-2024
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Series 24: 44. Berkshire And Hampshire
Motivated by wanting to move closer to family, an escapee has her sister on hand for moral support and Sonali Shah’s property know-how to help find the ideal rural retreat ...
22-12-2024
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 11. The Gower
The sun shines all week long as Alistair Appleton helps a couple to move one step closer to their dream of a new life on the gorgeous Gower Peninsula in Wales. Apart from checki ...
20-12-2024
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Series 24: 12. The Lothians
After 26 years in London, today’s couple has headed north to the Scottish Lothians in search of a complete change of lifestyle. They have a house-hunting budget of £ ...
19-12-2024
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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 ...
19-12-2024
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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 ...
18-12-2024
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Series 25: 26. The Cairngorms
Nicki Chapman is in the magnificent Cairngorms, property shopping with a couple who, after exploring the UK in their camper van for the last two years, have decided that the Sco ...
17-12-2024
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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 ...
14-12-2024
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Series 23 (extended Versions): 2. Cornwall
Wanting to be close to the coast, a couple from Birmingham decide that Cornwall is the perfect destination for their escape. Sonali Shah is on hand to make their dream come true ...
13-12-2024
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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 ...
12-12-2024
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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 ...
12-12-2024
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Series 24: 8. Caithness
Jules Hudson savours the spectacular scenery and splendid isolation on offer in Scotland’s Caithness, as he helps a young family with a house-hunting budget of £270, ...
11-12-2024
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Series 25: 23. Berkshire
Although they don’t want to move any great distance, the beautiful Berkshire countryside will be a far cry from busy Slough, where today’s young couple is moving fro ...
11-12-2024
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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 ...
07-12-2024
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Series 22 (extended Versions): 5. Wye Valley
The beautiful Wye Valley may not be too far from Bristol, where today’s couple are from, but it’s a whole world away in terms of lifestyle. Steve Brown has some temp ...
06-12-2024
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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 ...
05-12-2024
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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 ...
05-12-2024
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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 ...
04-12-2024
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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 ...
04-12-2024
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 10. Surrey
A health-conscious couple from London enlist Sonali Shah to help them spend £1.3 million on a detached property in Surrey with enough land to create a wellness retreat. Ta ...
29-11-2024
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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 ...
28-11-2024
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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 ...
28-11-2024
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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 ...
27-11-2024
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Series 25: 19. The Valleys
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from the South Yorkshire city of Doncaster find a new home in the wonderful Welsh valleys. He will need a good head for heights when he meets up ...
27-11-2024
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Series 21 (extended Versions): 15. Norfolk
A retired army couple looking to escape busy Bedfordshire enlist Margherita Taylor to help them spend their house-hunting budget of £680,000 in the rural wilds of Norfolk. ...
22-11-2024
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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 ...
21-11-2024
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Series 25: 18. Herefordshire
Three dogs and their two owners want to make their dream countryside escape from the busy port city of Southampton to beautiful, rural Herefordshire, where Denise Nurse is ready ...
21-11-2024
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Series 23: 23. Oxfordshire
Nicki Chapman teams up with an author from west London who wants to pen an exciting new chapter for herself in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. Away from the property hunt ...
20-11-2024
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Series 25: 17. West Yorkshire
Emotions are running high in the West Yorkshire countryside as Nicki Chapman helps a buyer from a Hertfordshire town find a new home in the beautiful county where she grew up. W ...
19-11-2024
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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 ...
15-11-2024
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Series 23: 21. Cornwall
Denise Nurse is in the coastal county of Cornwall today, helping a couple to turn their favourite holiday destination into their permanent home on a budget of £475,000. Aw ...
14-11-2024
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Series 25: 16. The Lothians
Wanting to escape south London, a mother and son meet up with Sonali Shah in the Lothians, where they want to find their ideal rural retreat, complete with an art studio. Sonali ...
14-11-2024
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Series 23: 15. Gloucestershire
A soon-to-be retired vicar and her husband need Sonali Shah’s help to find a new home in the beautiful countryside of Gloucestershire. Sonali also visits Adam Henson, who, ...
13-11-2024
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Series 25: 15. Dorset
Alistair Appleton helps a buyer from Maidstone in Kent realise her dream of moving to the Dorset countryside, where she wants a home closer to her family so she can reconnect wi ...
12-11-2024
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Series 21 (shortened Versions): 2. Lake District
Alistair Appleton helps a couple from Newcastle who want to turn the spectacular Lake District from a holiday destination into their permanent home. With a budget of £750, ...
10-11-2024
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Series 22: 50. Worcestershire
Chris Bavin is on hand to make the rural English dream a reality by presenting some beautiful properties to a couple returning to the UK after 20 years living abroad in Canada. ...
09-11-2024
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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 ...
08-11-2024
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Series 22: 42. Gloucestershire
A creative couple from London want to leave city life behind in search of new adventures in Gloucestershire, and Chris Bavin is on hand to guide them. Along with presenting a lo ...
07-11-2024
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Series 25: 14. Northumberland
A newly engaged couple from Cheshire want to buy their first home together in rural Northumberland, where Jules Hudson is on hand to show them a selection of houses that matches ...
07-11-2024
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Series 22: 37. Kent
Who better to show a young couple with a growing family from London around Kent than local girl Nicki Chapman? Away from the house hunt, Nicki takes a trip down memory lane, mee ...
06-11-2024
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Series 25: 13. Gloucestershire
Returning to the UK after 22 years in eastern Australia, today’s couple have decided they now want to make their home in the countryside of glorious Gloucestershire. Nicki ...
06-11-2024
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