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The Block 2012 New Zealand s01e05

The four couples taking part in the first season of The Block NZ come from Auckland,
Hamilton, New Plymouth, Wellington and Christchurch.

The four couples are:
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-Hamilton student Sarah Adams (20) and former chef turned landscape designer Richard Boobyer (24)

-Intensive care nurse Ginny Death (22) and electrical linesman Rhys Wineera (23) from New Plymouth

-Christchurch advertising agency designer Libby Crawford (29) and her brother Ben (31), a marketing manager based in Auckland

-Wellingtonians Rachel Rasch (35), a former radio producer, and her partner, bricklayer and musician, Tyson Hill (36)
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The Block NZ is the first local version of the international renovation-reality series.
Hosted by Black Cap-turned-broadcaster Mark Richardson and Shannon Ryan (FOUR Live),
it sees these four couples compete to renovate four run-down houses
in the upmarket seaside suburb of Takapuna in Auckland.

Room by room, week by week, they'll fix up the entire house
to sell at auction for the highest price -
and they have to take leave from their jobs and lives and live in the houses while they do it.
That means no kitchen, no bathroom, not even a clean place to sleep, until that room is renovated.

Each couple will get to keep the profit from the sale of their own property on auction night.
And after the last auctioneer's gavel goes down the couple whose property sells
for the most over reserve wins an additional US$80,000.