Homes from Hell

Dubai Dreams meets the victims of the economic crash, including the family who had to do a moonlight-flit to avoid jail and the couple auctioning their apartment for as little as a penny. Plus, there are dramatic scenes when one man jets to Dubai to confront a builder who took customers’ money and then didn’t build a thing.

Building your own house from scratch can give you the ultimate dream property and 100,000 new homes were built in Britain last year. 

Location is everything when choosing a dream home, but what happens when your perfect location leaves you with a nightmare home? Homes From Hell meets the couple whose idyllic Portuguese farmhouse is going to be turned into a traffic island, the family whose neighbours have built a breezeblock wall around the back of their house and the couple whose marriage is on the rocks thanks to their dream home in Spain. 

Living by the seaside appeals to many as an ideal home location. But what happens when a seaside dream turns into a nightmare? Homes From Hell meets the couple living in a caravan after their hopes of a new life in Greece turned sour and the people whose homes are crumbling into the North Sea.