The Block 2020 is over with all five houses sold. Harry and Tash, Sarah and George, Daniel and Jade, Luke and Jasmin and Jimmy and Tam all made a profit after transforming five period houses into stunning family homes over 12 weeks. Catch up on how everything went down as it happened below.
It is! Filming for the 2020 season began again in earnest on May 4, after it was put on hold 40 days earlier. The Block had completed five weeks of production before it shut, and currently has six full weeks remaining to complete.
The Block 2020 auction result: Winners take home more than $1 million prize money in record-breaking night for the show. Queenslanders Jimmy and Tam have been crowned best on The Block, taking home the first ever seven-figure sum in the reno show's history.
Queenslanders Jimmy and Tam Wilkins have won The Block for 2020, in a monster auction day that turned out to be the biggest in the show's 16-season history. Jimmy and Tam's renovated 1950s house at 360A New Street, Brighton, smashed its auction reserve of $3.29 million by a whopping $966,000, fetching $4.256 million.
The embattled Brighton home of The Block contestants Jimmy and Tam has finally sold. The 1950s-style pad, which was at the centre of the show's “conwoman” scandal, is understood to have been snapped up last week by a local family. It's believed to have sold for around the $4 million mark, industry sources confirmed.
This 'Rock the Block' Season 2 House Still Hasn't Sold. HGTV After six weeks of competition one Rock the Block Season 2 house is still on the market. The four-bathroom, six-bedroom house has been on the market for over a month and a half.
Series overview
| Season | Title | Result |
|---|
| Total winnings |
|---|
| 14 | The Block 2018 | $645,000 |
| 15 | The Block 2019 | $730,000 |
| 16 | The Block 2020 | $1.066m |
Casting for The Block 2020 is now open
- Couples must be aged between 18-65, energetic and with a good sense of humour.
- First round couples will be reduced to final participants in the first week of filming.
- Successful couples must be available for a 10-12 week shoot period from late January, 2020.
Tess and LukeAnd, are still going strong.
Since becoming married in 2012, the couple also welcomed their first child, a girl called Freddie, in June 2017. And in July this year, Jenna announced she is now pregnant with their second child, after being together for 15 years.
The Block returns for 2020 ?— here's what we know so far. Blockaholics have finally got the news they've been wanting for weeks: The Block 2020 will premiere on Sunday August 23 at 7.00pm. Fans of the show have been waiting for the date announcement and now the countdown is officially on.
Block fan favourites and self-proclaimed 'bogan couple' Jess Eva and Norm Hogan pocketed thousands from their impressive win two years ago, but according to Jess, it's all gone.
"All the scores you get from the judges are accumulated throughout the entire series, and whoever has the most points from the judges overall gets to choose the auction order at the end of this series." It's not just choosing where they go in the auction order, the winning team will determine the entire auction order.
Mitch and Mark's house sold for $3.374 million, which earned them a total of $384,000 in profit.
The Block 2019: Tess and Luke win big taking home $730,000Cairns “cane toads” Tess and Luke were the unlikely winners of The Block this season, taking home a whopping $730,000 for their efforts in Sunday's finale — and it's not the only financial windfall they've enjoyed lately.
Mitch and Mark are the only team on The Block with the budget for a spa or pool on their terrace, but ultimately it wasn't their choice to omit one from their final plans. The pool decision was put to a body corporate where Andy and Deb were the only team to vote yes, which meant no pool.