With The Block 2022 finally having come to an end, here is how much money the winners walked away with. Spoilers: it’s a lot.
After a season rife with controversy, clashes, and allegations of rigging, The Block 2022 has finally come to an end. But what better than an explosive ending to an equally charged season? While two teams walked away with a shit-ton of money, the others were quite literally left empty-handed.
For their luxury home Gisborne, Victoria, winners Omar Slaimankhel and Osman “Oz” Malik got a whopping $1.5 million AUD, plus $100,000 AUD in prize money. With a total of $1.6 million AUD, Omar and Oz have clocked in the biggest win in the show’s history.
The only other contestants to break the $100,000 AUD mark were Rachel and Ryan, who received $169,000 AUD in profits – although their house was sold post the chaotic finale auction.
Omar and Oz’s house was bought by regular The Block buyer Danny Wallis. Wallis, in fact, ended up being the only buyer of all three properties that were sold this season: he also bought Tom Calleja and Sarah-Jane Wilson’s house, as well as Rachel and Ryan’s property.
Omar and Oz, in fact, went first at the auction – and walked away with Wallis shelling out $5.6 million AUD for their house. Accounting for the profit margin, both Omar and Oz ended up with $793,000 AUD each, with an additional $50,000 dollars each from the prize money. This makes them only the second time a contestant has blazed past the $1 million AUD mark, the last being Jimmy and Tam in 2020.
Despite being happy with his purchase, Wallis admitted to feeling like he overpaid for Omar and Oz’s property. “I probably spent too much at the first auction, but was surprised to pick up two more homes at what I feel was a bargain price, so I guess it all evened out in the end for me at least,” he said later on in the show.
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The other contestants, however, weren’t so lucky. While Tom Calleja and Sarah-Jane Wilson boasted a strong run throughout the season and managed to end up selling their house for a neat $4.1 million AUD, they only got $20,000 in profit.
And while Rachel and Ryan couldn’t sell their house during the auction, Wallis ended up ushering them into second place when he bought their house post-auction for $4.2 million dollars, resulting in them walking away with $169,000 AUD in profits.
And while the finale boasted the biggest sale in the history of the show, it also marked the first time in over a decade that two contestants – Sharon and Ankur, and Dylan and Jenny – weren’t able to sell their properties. As of now, the houses are still on the market.
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