Martin Roberts meets a couple who buy a former millworkers' cottage in Derbyshire as their first home together, Lucy Alexander meets a father-and-daughter team of seasoned developers buying a house in Kent, and Dion Dublin talks to a man who, along with two friends, has clubbed together to buy an investment property in Lowestoft in Suffolk. All three houses were sold at auction and all need major work to bring them up to scratch.

A house with a bathroom layout challenge in Ripley, Derbyshire, a huge three-storey house with its freehold on offer in Erdington, Birmingham, and a mid-terrace house in London's East Ham in need of a major makeover are all sold under the hammer. Martin Roberts, Lucy Alexander and Dion Dublin meet the new owners and hear their plans for their auction investments.