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Behind the Scenes: HGTV's House Hunters Comes to DC
When Brett West of McEnearney Associates submitted a proposal to the producers of Home & Garden Television’s (HGTV) House Hunters he wasn’t thinking that this would be his chance at stardom. Rather, he wanted the city that he lived in to be the main attraction.
“DC is a great city and I saw this as an opportunity to show how beautiful it is,” West, who is also Vice President of Live Wire Media Relations, told UrbanTurf. “The production schedule has been pushed back a little, which is fine with me, because it looks like shooting will extend into March when the cherry blossoms are in bloom.”
House Hunters is one of HGTV’s most popular programs as it follows a buyer as she searches for her new home. With a camera crew in tow, the buyer looks at properties in a certain price range and at the end of the show, her final choice is revealed. Before the housing market started to go south, the production team would follow people around until they made an offer on a place. When the market hit the skids, many of those offers never panned out. Now House Hunters only starts filming once a buyer actually has a property under contract, then they recreate the buying process.
For West and his client Naomi Shelton this new procedure was not an issue.
For one thing, Shelton bought one of the first condos she saw at Waterfront Tower, a 123-unit condo development at 3rd and M Street SW. Because Waterfront Tower still has model homes available for public viewing, it will make recreating the “search” a little easier for the HGTV team.
Also, the program usually returns to the buyer’s former home, and since a friend of Shelton’s moved into her old place, going back and filming there should not be an issue.
When they begin shooting later this month, West and Shelton will also go back to the places they visited before she chose to buy at Waterfront Tower, assuming those properties are still on the market. If not, they will find comparable homes in the same neighborhoods.
“I call it ‘television magic’ when you do it this way,” West said of recreating the homebuying experience rather than filming it as it happens. “These days, they can’t waste all that time following someone around and then not have them go to settlement.”
West says that the taping should be wrapped up in the spring, with the show to air sometime next fall.
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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/behind_the_scenes_hgtvs_house_hunters_comes_to_dc/1649.
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