The Block shock as Polly & Waz sell the only house at auction
There were cheers, tears, and a proposal but Polly & Waz win The Block in a shock result at auction. UPDATE: Katrina & Amie's house sells post-auction for $860,000.
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Polly & Waz have won The Block 2011.
Their property sold for $855,000 which was $15,000 above their reserve price of $840,000
They win $100,000 for making the most above their profit.
But the evening, filmed last night at Fitzroy Town Hall, was a night of high drama with a staggering 3 of 4 properties passed in at auction.
It was full of drama with cheers, tears, a proposal and a man in a hot pink suit.
Directly before their auction Josh proposed to Jenna in a moment of surprise emotion. With her family watching on via the auction monitor, Jenna said ‘Yes.’
Results:
Josh and Jenna: Passed in at $901,000
37 Cameron Street
Reserve: $950,000
Polly & Waz: Sold for $855,000
39 Cameron Street
Reserve: $840,000
Katrina & Amie: Passed in at $822,000
41 Cameron Street
Reserve: $860,000
Rod and Tania: Passed in at $832,000
43 Cameron Street
Reserve: $850,000
Rod and Tania also won a car following an online vote from viewers.
The couples had all elected where the order of the auction, with Rod and Tania nominating the final place. Josh and Jenna opted for first.
The outcome will be much as a disappointment to viewers as it was to the couples. After such high ratings it ended as an anti-climax, and contrasts to previous seasons where couples have walked away with sums up to six figures.
Amie summed it up best by saying, “A waste of time, really, isn’t it….?”
Being passed in at auction was not new to The Block. Last year a Vaucluse apartment was also passed in, but sold privately several days later.
Nine’s high profile night of television also included promos for The Farmer Wants a Wife, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men and The Joy of Sets.
UPDATED: Soon after the final auction Katrina and Amie’s estate agent Glen Coutinho, from Hocking Stuart, announced that they had negotiated the sale of their home for $860,000.
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It was an unfortunate result. However it’s a risk all reality show participants take. On survivor you give up the comforts of home and starve for a chance at $1m. Big Brother loss of control of your life. I do feel a bit sorry for them. As it turns out I am the biggest loser for watching the finale after giving up on the show after the second week. Should have listened to myself.
I’m no agent but those reserves were clearly too high! This show is so wrong!! So who keeps the profit while 3 couples did 8 weeks of hard labour for nothing!! Shame on you channel 9.
Just another thought. Say one of the remaining properties sell above reserve at a later date when all the media attention has dissipated what happens with the profit then ? Do the contestants receive it ?
And what if somehow it’s greater than the 15k margin that made Polly and Waz the winners ?
So the final bombed with viewers (ratings will still be high) and the agents under consumer investigation, sounds like the show could be imploding.
Who cares!! it was a stupid show, with fake contestants!!! They got what they deserved. Any idiot would have realised these houses were way too expensive in an overinflated property market.
Stone07, as in all reality shows, the contestants would have received a regular wage, like all other reality tv contestants.
So happy that Polly and Waz won!! They were consistently the loveliest/sweetest contestants. Thought the sisters were very rude to Tanya in particular – yes it was a horrid situation but it doesn’t mean you need to be rude – not their fault. A shame for the couples but at the same time – that’s real estate. That’s real reality – how can Channel 9 do anything about that – unless they want to rig it, they have to leave it up to real people. I remember season 2 was very low in profits and only 2 houses made any money. They can’t control buyers! I’m not a nine fan, I’m happy to usually bag them when it comes to stuff like endless repeats and lack of consistency – but this was not their fault.
As for critique of Underbelly – I think it’s quite
Good!!
Renovators is delivering – but it’s delivering cliched crap and melodrama…
Aww what will all those 3 million viewers do now?
… watch The Renovators??
Wow. So Amie and Katrina walk away with absolutely nothing?
They weren’t my favourite couple and they seemed to have done the absolute bare minimum from week to week to finish, but they deserve better than that.
I would have thought that they could make money over their reserve in the days and weeks following the auction. Then again, who deals with the negotiations for the house prices after the auction – Channel 9 or the participants? Were Amie and Katrina even involved in the negotiations or do Channel 9 simply accept the first offer that met the reserve?
So Polly is the overall big winner! she gets $115,000 and her face on the next big reality show, Celebrity Apprentice.
Logged into this site to see the result as I was watching something else . Glad i didn’t waste my time watching 9’s show. I don’t feel bad for the contestants – I feel bad for all the idiots who watched this tripe for weeks. Sucked in. Same goes for anyone watching Ch 10’s home show too. Folks – you don’t hsave to watch shite on the telly that they are shoving down your throats. Get a PVR, borrow DVDs, read a book, play scrabble.
And how can the winner of this 9 show just happen to be the daughter of the ch( doctor – Dr Rick Gordon AKA Dr Rick Porter. Something smells fishy there. Cue Today Tonight.
@greg
ive just recently started watching it and its reall good, except for all the challeneges.
yeh like i said, if one renoavtor sells their property, in terms of percentage profit, more than the rest. then not only do they win the profit of their house, but all of the profit of the houses.
in other words, most probably more than 400k for one person
thats way better than 115k from tonight
They got 200 special VIP people into a town hall for an exclusive auction. They seemed like a bunch of w*nkers! The guy in the blue jacket was like im gonna spend $1.1 million on josh and jennas as did the old guy..yet didnt even bid at $901k. Maybe more needs to be asked of the people that were choosen to attend? Im guessing the real estate agents have alot to answer for, their so called shortlists were just all crap
Totally unfair to the other couples!! They should have all walked away with at least 60 grand. They worked bloody hard!!! Greedy channel 9.!!
Bit of a sign of the times in Australia, lots of overpriced property around … not even a shiny reality TV show can hide that.
Wish I hadn’t missed The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men promos, how were they, anything new? I’ve seen some TBBT spoilers but not sure if there are any new season promos, off to check youtube…
a little off topic but the woman’s magazine ad promoting the story on josh & Jennas engagement played during the 3rd auction…(even if working from last night surely the ad space was pre-booked??) Did someone get a heads up and have time to plan??? perhaps the house profit isn’t everything when mags want your wedding snaps for cash!
Isn’t it normal for all but the winner to go home empty handed on reality TV?
So it’s really no more a waste of time than any other show.
Pretty boring auction though. Shall be interesting to see how Renovators does.
What an embarrassing program. 8 weeks work for nothing. Slave labor is illegal! The worst reality TV ever screened! Shame on you Channel 9. #Doanythingtogetarating.
oh and congrads polly and waz
i agree kim
Reserves were set above the market price and who do you think set the reserves? Yes Kim, the fact that three of the properties failed to sell does indeed have something to do with channel nine.
Jason, you clearly work on the Renovators- no one who is watching it could have such a firm grip of the rules…the most confusing show ever- I still don’t understand how it works…
@Kim – looks like we are the only two that agree here that it wasn’t nines fault.
If Katrina and Amie’s house was sold “soon after the auction” why wasn’t that mentioned during the show? All that padding leading up to the auction and they didn’t think that the sale of K&A’s house would be of interest to the viewers that have been watching it for the last 8 weeks?
On a positive note, the 2hrs started and finished on time and in all fairness they didn’t do the dirty on viewers with announcements of the reserve amounts. I think all in all channel nine should be commended for the presentation of the finale.
Everyone is saying it’s a fail for channel nine. That’s ridiculous as the show rated it’s bum off and although the auction results were not great that surely has nothing to do with channel nine!