A few years ago, the award-winning TV series ‘Grand Designs” featured a house at 8 Belmore Lane in Surry Hills.
The producers of a new TV show from Foxtel, “Selling in the City,” are looking to feature new local houses whilst undergoing a renovation.
The TV exposure turned out very well at Belmore Lane so being featured would appear to only add $$$$s to your valuation.
Touted as the next Foxtel LifeStyle channel hit, Selling In The City is a Selling Houses Australia spinoff that targets the multimedia-savvy millennial audience.
Featuring award-winning, Melbourne-based interior designer Rosie Morley and Victoria-based landscape expert Paddy Milne as hosts, Selling in the City will showcase small, urban properties and offer a montage of attractive design ideas and clever solutions for small spaces to help people maximise and get fresh usage out of their domiciles.
Surry Hills Small Home
Audiences in Surry Hills are no strangers to the “small house makes it big” success story of Grand Designs: Season One fame that is 8 Belmore Lane, a.k.a. ‘The Small House.’
Then-owner Domenic Alvaro, an architect, managed to fit in three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living, dining, and kitchen areas, a rooftop garden, and a lock-up garage into a 6-metre x 7-metre x 5-storey rectangular prism that still allowed plenty of natural light.
The design won the 2011 World House of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. The small (really small!) yet thoughtfully designed and beautifully executed dwelling on what were once three car spaces in a Surry Hills corner was an instant hit with TV audiences.
So do you think your home is the next TV success story?
The Selling in the City production team is actively searching for “apartments, townhouses, warehouse conversions and everything else in-between” to feature and offer fresh challenges for the show.
As Selling in the City pitches in its casting call, if the latte life has lost its appeal; or you’ve outgrown your current space and need an upgrade; or you’re looking to sell but want to spruce things up first, maybe it’s time to consider an out-of-the-box solution like going on TV and letting the experts literally run the show. All whilst documenting the experience for all of Australia to watch as it unfolds, of course.
Those precious minutes of airtime just might give you the home of your dreams.
After all, from shelling out $230,000 in 2008 to selling for $1.88 million in 2014 ahead of its scheduled auction, The Small House of Surry Hills certainly brought Domenic Alvaro value in spades. All that TV popularity (plus the award!) certainly didn’t hurt.
And whilst 8 Belmore Lane’s claim to fame stemmed in part from a different TV show, the premise offered by Selling in the City and its team of real estate experts and renovators to today’s hopeful homeowners is no less attractive and certainly more current.
“Selling In The City will focus on the millions of urban-dwelling Australians who live in apartments, terraces, and townhouses and want to renovate and transform their homes to sell and change where they live,” says Wendy Moore, Foxtel Group General Manager, Lifestyle.
“This fresh approach takes the trusted Selling Houses brand and opens it up to a whole new audience,” she added.
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