The seven teams are:
Toad and Mandy (NSW)
Kim and Michelle (NSW)
Josh and Brandon (QLD)
Chiara and David (WA)
Dave and Mel (QLD)
Leigh and Kristie (VIC)
Jared and Jessica (SA)
Kim and Michelle (Tweed Heads) and Dave and Mel (Gold Coast) live on the opposite sides of the border so we could see teams travelling to Gold Coast or even Brisbane to shop for materials and furniture.
That’s a massive gavel.
That’s what she said.
As the actress said to the bishop.
New promo aired tonight during Seven News Melbourne tonight, in which LLB unveiled the mystery house to the seven teams before the renovation and auction by Purple Bricks. But it is too early to show the promo given the voiceover says “Next Monday 7.30” while there is still one week to go in My Kitchen Rules.
The promo does say House Rules will be shown on Monday-Thursday in the first week, going head to head against MasterChef plus The Voice on Monday and Tuesday.
It appears as though the structure of the House Rules ‘Interior Renovation’ episodes will be similar to those of last year where for each house there will only be two nights dedicated to the renovating and two for the reveals (one night for the judges’ critiques & scores and another for the homeowner’s critiques and scores) which will be Sunday and Monday nights this year for the duration of the interior renovations.
The mysterious auction house will be made over and revealed in just two nights (Monday & Tuesday) as promised in one of the promos for this season while the first proper interior renovation will be on Wednesday.
In addition, it seems that the bonus room and statement piece concepts (which Joh made as a big announcement last season and is likely what this one is too, to increase the pressure in the final days of each renovation) which were introduced last season will continue this season.
New promo aired tonight, indicating a contestant would be injured within the first 30 minutes of Monday’s season opener that an ambulance had to be called. It happened at the site of the house which would be renovated before it was auctioned off.
This must be a reality show first 
According to this article https://au.be.yahoo.com/amphtml/laurence-llewelyn-bowen-wont-royal-wedding-070050917.html LLB says that the reason why the auction house is so important to the series is that whatever profit is made from the sale of the house will actually be the prize fund the teams will be vying for in the remainder of the series. So the higher the profit, the more one of the teams will win at the end in the grand final. That’s why the teams will want to do an excellent job in the renovation of the auction house.
The house was auctioned off in March this year according to promo.
The series can’t only have been filmed two months ago, surely?
It’s possible that this property was renovated late last year but was not auctioned until March, or this renovation took place after the other seven houses had been renovated.
If that’s the case, it must be another house being auctioned because according to the other article, the first auction house must have had to be auctioned off before the rest of the series could occur so there could be a profit decided upon and thus overall total prize fund that the teams will be vying for this season. LLB said so in the article.
I think it’s the same auction house. The judges might score each team’s work which would then decide the renovation order of the properties of the seven teams; the total prize fund would be revealed after interior renovation of the seven houses were completed.
Do you mean this article? All it says is “The first challenge is to flip a house in Sydney… whatever profit they make from that then becomes the prize fund for the rest of the series.”
If they don’t reveal the cash prize until later, it gives them the opportunity for literally months of “WHAT WILL BE HOUSE RULES MASSIVE PRIZE? YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE IT! TUNE IN TO FIND OUT” promos.
This is my guilty Aussie pleasure but since season 2 it has suffered from getting more and more bloated and then in later seasons focusing more on drama rather than renoations - for example deliberately splitting the zones across the house because they think we want to see arguments over space every week, rather than for example a Master Bedroom/Ensuite created by one team with one vision. Indeed with the walk in robe the Master Bedroom is often split between three teams.
It looks likely then with the extra team and launch week twist it’ll be a more bloated series than ever, and not happy to hear the judging will again be split over two nights. In season one it was done over about half an hour in the back half of episode 4!
That said I have always thought starting with a neutral project where all teams compete would be a good idea so at least the competitors have more of an idea about the people who own the first house.
Ratings for the judging were high but the renovation episodes were dropping off. So now there is more judging and less renovating.
reality shows often deceive things in a certain way. They could have auctioned the house after the renovations without contestants knowing the exact prize pool.
According to Seven’s program guide for next week, the first two teams to have their homes renovated this season were Jess and Jared (Adelaide), then Mel and Dave (Gold Coast).
What was the disclaimer at the beginning of the episode? I only saw a flash of it so I don’t know what it was about.