A chiropodist, a woman who works on projects in between the school run and two part time gardeners have bought properties under the hammer. Located in Bullbridge, Derbyshire; Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire and Wolverhampton, Martin, Lucy and Dion hear about the investors plans for their auction buys.

Property renovation series. Martin Roberts rolls back the clock nearly 12 years to catch up on an ambitious development of a former church in Preston on the Hill in Cheshire, while Lucy Alexander looks round two very different terraced houses in Stoney Stratford near Milton Keynes and Streatham in London.