“Husköp i blindo” is back in the box and on October 8, the second season of the program premiered on TV3. The concept is that participants hand over savings and full control to the program’s experts, who will then help them find their dream home. There’s just one catch. The contestants have no idea what house the experts are buying and renovating for them.
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Premiere of season 2 of “Buying a house blindly”
In the premiere episode, we get to follow Rebecca and Erik who will move the entire family of four from Kenya home to Sweden. Now they take the help of “Husköp i blindo”, with Carin da Silva in the lead, to find his new house in Landskrona.
Rebecka and Erik are moving home to Landskrona from Kenya. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”House purchase in blind” Lena Nyman, Sebastian Stojanovic and Carin da Silva. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”House purchase in blind”
On the family’s wish list is a central location, a room for each of the four children and a garden. But with a budget of SEK 4.5 million, it will be a tough challenge for the estate agent Sebastian Stojanovic.
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The family buys an old school
In the end, Sebastian Stojanovic manages to find a house for the family that falls within their budget – and it is nothing less than an old school in Landskrona. Now it is to be converted into a private residence. The final price lands at SEK 3.5 million, but renovation and purchase are expected to cost a lot.
The experts buy an old school. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Buying a house blindly” The shock over the new house: “My fears have come true”
The family, still in Kenya, are given a tour of the old school via video link, and reactions are mixed.
Erik and Rebecka get a digital tour. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Husköp i blindo” The house’s basement floor. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Husköp i blindo” The house’s kitchen. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Buying a house blindly” There are many square meters to furnish. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Husköp i blindo” Reactions are mixed during the tour. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Buying a house blindly” The family’s reaction makes Lena Nyman a little nervous. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”House purchase in blind”
– I feel that my fears have come true right now, that I will move into a big and nasty school and think that there have been students and teachers there, says Rebecka and continues:
– I thought it would be something in the residential areas, and felt when they showed that I had bought this big scary school, why couldn’t they buy a house in one of the residential areas?
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“It was actually unpleasant”
Erik describes the object as cool, but at the same time likens it to an institution that is “the opposite of cosy”. Rebecka is even more skeptical, and got a “zombie movie feeling” during the tour.
“It was actually unpleasant,” says Rebecka. Photo: TV3/Viaplay/”Buying a house blindly”
– It was actually unpleasant. Big windows and big surfaces, says Rebecka.
The interior designer Lena Nyholm manages to get really nervous during the conversation with the family, and now awaits the big challenge of renovating and furnishing the house for SEK 845,000. Will the family be satisfied with their house in the end?
Do you want to know how Rebecka and Erik are doing? “Husköp i blindo” is broadcast on Tuesdays on Viaplay and TV3.