Four couples won a total of $3.165m on Wednesday night's show after the four apartments they had renovated and furnished during the series sold in a thriving Melbourne property market.
From the million-pound apartments of Deansgate to the red-brick terraces of Moston, so many tens of thousands of people here didn't bother to vote at the last election that Lucy Powell, the incumbent Labour MP, was elected in a 2012 byelection with just 12% support in the lowest parliamentary poll turn out since 1945.
'You hear the phrase "social cleansing" being used – and that's exactly what this is' Now, they are talking about demolishing this estate and building a 25-storey tower, all private apartments, with 120 low-rise "affordable housing" units around it.
Stay at the Karamanyan, a mansion converted into four stylish apartments.
The 14 self-catering rooms are almost like studio apartments, with kitchens in the corners, and are simply and brightly furnished, with aircon, television and daily cleaning – even of your dirty dishes.
Mongoose Apartments are hidden in greenery just three minutes from the sand, with six one-bedroom apartments in a block surrounded by palms, each with kitchen and balcony.
Surely all kinds of devious and slimy goondas (criminals) must be trying to find a way to shove them out and put up trendy apartments overlooking the sea? "All the time, every week a property developer comes saying this or that, not even our homes but saying they will buy land and build something,"says Manish.
Situated in an 1850s New York brownstone (town house) in Manhattan's East Village, this collection of four apartments and one penthouse is as close to home-from-home as you'll find in the Big Apple.
We also run Christmas Day lunches with Airbnb providing apartments, called Bring your own Christmas.
It is hard to see how funding luxury apartments and gated communities is the most effective way to do either".
Where to stay The Landmark Trust has two stunning rooftop self-catering apartments in the beautiful Villa dei Vescovi, once a summer retreat for the bishops of Padua (from £603 for four nights, sleeps four, landmarktrust.org.uk).uk
