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?

Martin Roberts and Lucy Alexander visit three houses near water in different parts of the country, including a wonderful cottage with a stunning view in Devon, a town house in Sheerness and a charming one-bedroom cottage in North Shields.