Lucy Alexander looks around a run-down two-bedroom flat in Fulham, but the potential for profit is huge. Martin Roberts calls in on a former railway cottage in the North East and sees a terraced house near the Kent coast that needs doing up.

All of these properties have been sold at auction. Martin and Lucy find out who bought them and what they paid when they went under the hammer.

Martin Roberts looks around a two-bedroom house in Stoke with wonderful countryside views and sees a great ground-floor flat in Glasgow. Lucy Alexander meets two boyhood friends who join forces to buy and renovate a house in north London. Will any of them make a profit?