Block 2025 Finale: Britt and Taz win $520,000 as two houses fail to sell at auction – realestate.com.au

And the award for understatement of the year goes to Scott Cam.

“It seems like selling five houses on the same day in Daylesford was quite a task,” he said after tonight’s final ended with two houses being passed over.

Do you think?

It was always going to be quite a task. Five identical modern houses with huge gardens and cinema rooms, saunas and wine cellars, priced with identical reserves of $2,990,000, in a country town better known for its quaint cottages?

A rural town that lacks the train station needed to serve as a commute, and whose previous record sales were well under the $3 million that required the homes to be sold to yield big profits for participants?

In retrospect it all seems obvious.

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The finale of The Block has produced mixed fortunes. Image: Channel 9

The winners tonight were officers Britt and Taz, the first of the show from WA. They reluctantly went first in the auction order, but it paid off with a profit of $420,000 plus the $100,000 prize for taking first place.

Next up were Mat and Robby, who were openly disappointed to win a combined $109,999, thanks to a bid from Block serial bully Danny Wallis, who was last seen worrying about Victoria’s land taxes.

“That was damned,” was Mat’s response to the sale. We think he was talking about their win, but he could have been talking about Wallis flogging the dead horse again by bidding in stupid steps.

On the one hand, it’s a little disgusting to see people crying about winning over $100,000, but on the other hand, they’ve been away from their families (including a newborn in Robby’s case) for three months and companies doing really hard work for not much more than they could have made if they had just stayed home.

“It’s not about the money, it’s about people fighting for it,” says Mat.

Robby eventually manages to put a brave face on it, saying, “It’s a beautiful house and we had the best time we’ve had in our lives.”

Western Australian police officers Britt and Taz won The Block and walked away $520,000 richer. Image: Channel 9

Then we move on to Ben and Emma, whose house has been passed over, but they are characteristically beautiful in it.

“Wow, I didn’t think that would happen,” Emma says.

“We had fun doing it. Still laughing?” Ben asks.

“Absolute.”

The couple’s son, Bailey, was born just weeks ago, well before his due date, so they have plenty to compensate them.

As Ben says, “I won life. Beautiful woman, beautiful baby boy, nothing else matters.”

Sonny and Alicia are next and manage to sell their house, taking home a profit of $120,000.

They are very happy, especially because they previously won a car which they gave to Alicia’s mother to thank her for taking care of their three children while they were on the show.

“It’s a little bit of a discount on the mortgage, which is huge,” Alicia says. “We are better off than before we came here. We are actually rich.”

Han and Can failed to secure a single bid. Image: Channel 9

A seller’s offer of $3.10 million was placed on Emma and Ben’s home. Image: Channel 9

Then Han and Can’s house is passed over with no bids, in what has to be one of the biggest Block finale fizzers ever.

Scott Cam points out that with the huge ratings The Block has achieved, there will likely be several viewers looking to buy the pass into homes, and Shelley Craft does her best to remind the losing contestants that the homes will immediately go back on the market, but it’s not the finale that every Block fan would have wanted.

The over-capitalization of these properties makes for good entertainment during the renovation phases, but means the only way to have a successful finale is to rely too much on annoying and unreliable millionaires and buyer’s lawyers bidding on nameless investors. And this year even that didn’t work.

We’re hoping that when the show moves to Mount Martha next season, we might end up with a finale where real people bid on houses they actually want to live in.

MISSED AN EPISODE?

Episode 1: Why no NSW candidate was good enough for The Block

Episode 2: The Worst Day on The Block

Episode 3/4: ‘Tear them off’: teams are forced to tear tiles off walls

Episode 5: The judges’ feedback causes one contestant to throw up

Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s heartbreak

Episode 7: The big problem with the blockhouse designs

Episode 8: Robby and Mat’s drunken blunder

Episode 9: ‘A luxury nursing home’

Episode 10: Can faces the wrath of Han

Episode 11: Han micromanages from her sickbed

Episode 12: Sonny gets a spray from Alicia