PHOTO: The Block host Scott Cam
According to realestate.com.au The Block host Scott Cam has moved to clear up a common misconception about the house he’s been building alongside contestants on the show’s current season.
In a Block first, Cam and his team of tradies built a country property on the same Gisborne estate as the contestants’ houses, with Cam running double duty as he hosted the show as well as pulled rooms together each week.
But, as Cam explained to fellow Block presenter Shelley Craft on a recent episode of the show’s podcast, the finished house is not his to keep, news.com.au reports.
“Something I need to point out – which my wife has asked me to point out – is that we don’t own that house. That is not our house,” he said.
The Block home Scott Cam built in Gisborne.
“Everybody is saying to my wife, ‘Are you going to move there? When are you going to sell it?’
“We have to explain to everyone that it belongs to the network – I just built it as my house.
I would love to live there, but my family is based in Sydney. I built it for some other lucky family to live in.”
The home will find a buyer at a later date.
The house would have been something of an odd pick as a new country getaway for Cam and his family, given its proximity to the homes the contestants built.
But the question now is how much will it sell for? The Block’s Gisborne finale saw just two homes sell under the hammer, with two more negotatied afterwards.
Dylan and Jenny’s house remains unsold, and is still on the market, with the listing now stating it has a $4.08m-4.4m price guide.
Inside Scott Cam’s Block home.
Cam and fam are staying put in Sydney.
Cam’s Nine-owned house was tactically decided not be auctioned off alongside the contestants’ offerings, and is in fact not on the market at all.
For now, Nine is keeping tight-lipped about its plans for Cam’s place.