How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder review – living in a grave plot? We really are screwed
Source: www.theguardian.com ·
Section: entertainment-sports ·
Bias: Center-Left
· Published: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:05:12 GMT
Oobah Butler pulls some fun stunts in this takedown of the housing crisis, such as hypnotising estate agents and renting prison cells. But his trip to a graveyard is brutally symbolicWhy can no one of my generation find an affordable place to live? Andy Burnham, who makes a surprise cameo on the new Channel 4 satire How to Trick Your Way Onto the Property Ladder, has two words: “Margaret Thatcher.” The housing crisis is a policy issue, but the presenter Oobah Butler wants to trial wackier workarounds for millennials keen to game a rigged system.Butler’s tongue-in-cheek documentary explores some elaborate parodic ideas, using himself and two young, hopeful first-time buyers, Mohammed and Insaf, as guinea pigs. Have they tried the bank of Mum and Dad? Let’s try to hypnotise an estate agent into selling us a property for a fiver. Perhaps it’s just about cutting out Netflix and coffees? Or could he swindle some property off the king? Continue reading...
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