Consumers choose Britain’s favourite property show presenter

Personality has beaten professional expertise in a new poll conducted by comparison website Gocompare.com, which let consumers choose their favourite property show host.

The nation’s favourite property show presenter has very little experience of building, renovating or designing at all, and is equally at home hosting a quiz show as presenting the BBC’s DIY SOS. Step forward UK viewers’ favourite property show frontman, Nick Knowles.

Only just shaded into second place is the high-brow host of Chanel 4’s Grand Designs, Kevin McCloud MBE. In third place it’s Phil Spencer of Location, Location, Location, beating his co-host Kirstie Allsopp who finished in fifth place. Other presenters in the Top 10 list include George Clarke (of the eponymous George Clarke’sAmazing Spaces), Lucy Alexander (Homes Under the Hammer) and Sarah Beeny (Property Ladder).

The BBC’s Changing Rooms pioneered the format of the property makeover show and paved the way for the vast selection of home decorating, home renovating, homebuying and homebuilding programmes we enjoy today. However, the show’s original run came to an end 11 years ago, which could explain why Linda Barker and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen placed ninth and tenth respectively.

The UK’s favourite property show presenters:

1^st – Nick Knowles – DIY SOS

2^nd – Kevin McCloud – Grand Designs; Man Made Home

3^rd – Phil Spencer – Location, Location, Location; The Secret Agent

4^th – George Clarke – The Restoration Man; George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces

5^th – Kirstie Allsopp – Location, Location, Location; The Property Chain

6^th – Sarah Beeny – Property Ladder; Britain’s Best Homes

7^th – Martin Roberts – Homes Under the Hammer

8^th – Lucy Alexander – Homes Under the Hammer

9^th – Linda Barker – Changing Rooms; 60 Minute Makeover

10^th – Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen – Changing Rooms; House Gift