A mid-terrace house with period features in Forest Gate in London, a house with a stream but close to a railway line in Handsacre in Staffordshire and a large three-storey property in Plymouth are all sold atauction. Martin Roberts, Lucy Alexander and Dion Dublin meet the new owners to hear their plans for their auction buys.

Developers tackle three ambitious projects with auction properties needing a lot of work to get them up to scratch. Martel Maxwell visits a house in Guildford, Martin Roberts falls in love with a GradeII-listed house in Torquay in Devon, and Dion Dublin is in Barry in Wales assessing all the work needed on a mid-terrace house. But will the developers' plans run smoothly and will any of them turn a profit.