Daytime TV is strange.

For the past few years morning British TV has had an obsession with Property.

From the BBC:
Homes under the Hammer.

Here's the basic premise – the program makers find a house for sale at auction, they'll then poke a camera around for all the 'before' shots. Go on to interview the successful bidder who is always someone buying it as an investment, with the intention of either renting out or selling on for a profit. No one ever buys anything with the intention of actually living in it -ever. (Indeed, the very notion that people should buy somewhere to actually live in seems to have been totally forgotten in this country. So the 'Homes' part of the shows title is almost a complete misnomer.) The buyer invariably guts the building and then paints everything inside beige and/or cream – puts in a new white bathroom suite, and new kitchen units. Consequently all the properties end up looking completely mind-numbingly, soullessly identically boring. These are for the 'after' shots. To cap the segment they get in a creepy looking load of be-suited Estate agents to say how much money it's now worth -and surprise, surprise it's always higher than what they originally paid for it. End shots of buyer giggling, drooling and gloating.

Repeat for the next property.