Greville Pabst on the Buyers Jury at the Gatwick

realestate.com.au recapped the episode of The Block 2018 in which the buyers jury toured and scored the five Gatwick apartments.

Greville sat on the jury alongside Frank Valentic and Nicole Jacobs, three buyers agents who between them accounted for every purchase at the previous year's Block auctions.

His assessments ran to what a buyer would respond to rather than what the judges had rewarded.

In apartment one he liked the coffered ceiling but could not find any personality in the space. Apartment two he named his favourite at the Gatwick, impressed by the kitchen and by a main bedroom he held up as the standard. The gold bath in apartment three, which drew objections from the other two, he found genuinely impressive. Apartment five he described as warm, modern and New York in feel, with a kitchen befitting a penthouse, though he and Valentic both noted the absence of a ceiling fan.

The scores went to Norm and Jess, who took the challenge with 27.5 out of a possible 30, with Greville marking them nine.

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