With multiple testimonies and confessions, it has come to light that the decade-long House Hunters is actually fake, or let's say, staged to perfection.
Most of the time, the house buyers will have already closed on a home, but their hunt would be exaggerated by adding two other houses.
Former participants Jeff Newcamp and Elizabeth opened up about their experience through a Slate article on June 20, 2019.
Titled 'What It’s Actually Like to Be on House Hunters,' the piece stated how the filming process was riddled with exaggerations and phony recreations.
The Navarre-based couple starred in two episodes, for House Hunters International and House Hunters.
They were living in their new home for a year when they started filming the international edition. And they had already chosen their ultimate home in Florida while filming the other installment.
But despite the reality, the pair had to act as if they were still on a house hunt in both episodes. They were paid $1,500 for House Hunters International and $500 for House Hunters.
Making things more interesting, Elizabeth recounted how the real estate agent in their Delft episode was fictionalized.
Instead, he was their neighbor and an IT person. Since the team couldn't find a local Dutch realtor, they paid her neighbor $500 to be a relocation expert.
Apart from the cast, the drama revolving around absurd criteria and even budgets is warped.
The buyer's budget often seems unreasonable with their job description, a repeated trend that spurred thousands of memes, and even the sarcastic Twitter account House Hunters Plot.
