House Trapped

While many Britons enjoyed one of the biggest property booms in history, playing the property market can go disastrously wrong, as Simon O’Brien and top London estate agent, Fiona Timms discovered.

House Trapped looked at the darker side of the property market: houses on the market that will not sell, negative equity and owners the boom left behind. The belief that stepping on to the property ladder with an investment in bricks and mortar was a safe bet was seriously challenged by the programme’s findings as unlucky buyers shared their stories in a bid to save others from making the same mistakes.