Since Grand Designs first hit screens in 1999, Kevin McCloud has been the best in Britain at doing that thing we all love to do: snoop inside other people’s homes. He’s chronicled the often-arduous journey of building dream mega-homes and been there to marvel at the lavish results when they are completed, describing to viewers the significance of the architecture in awe.

It’s a far cry from the side of housing that often resides on bigissue.com: banging the drum for more affordable housing for people without a home or calling out the abject horror homes that people on low incomes endure. But McCloud’s three decades looking at homes through an analytical lens has taught him plenty about the UK housing market.

That expertise is funnelled into his new show House of the Year . It’s

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