Homes from Hell

Real-life stories of people's property nightmares, beginning with the north London homeowners who had to go to court when their £900,000 dream purchase was taken over by squatters. The programme also features British expats whose rebuilding of their damaged home in Andalusia was halted by the police, and a retired couple who bought a villa in Cyprus reveal how they lost their money on a crumbling wreck

Real-life stories of people's property nightmares, including a former soldier fighting a war with his builders in Cyprus, and an angler who tried to stop his cottage from flooding by raising it up on pillars - without planning permission. Plus, a family that awoke one morning to find a stream running underneath the floorboards of their Cornish cottage

Childhood sweethearts who used their retirement money to buy a villa in Madeira reveal how months after paying 295,000 euros they ended up working six days a week in a pub in Staffordshire, with their hopes of a relaxing life in tatters. Plus, the nightmare experienced by British expats whose homes on a Spanish development began to crumble as the surrounding roads buckled