Real life ITV Grace location hit by major blow as show | UK News

ITV‘s gripping detective drama Grace hasn’t resulted in a surge in property costs within the space it’s filmed, as a substitute the market has suffered a big decline. The show returns to ITV tonight (March 6) for a fifth sequence. Starring John Simm, 54, as the titular Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, it’s filmed primarily in and round Brighton and Hove, though additionally they use places together with the broader Sussex space such as Devil’s Dyke, Shoreham Port and Burgess Hill.

But having 5.6million people utilizing the show as a store window has finished nothing to entice consumers to the world. Speaking solely to Express.co.uk, Kieran Carter of Sawyer and Co. Sales and Lettings in Brighton says the market is massively in decline. He advised us: “It hasn’t had any effect on any house prices around here.

“The market is what it is. It has been in a slow, gradual decline for the last two years in this city, 2023 and 2024 and right now it’s sort of plateaued at the bottom.

“It’s always so busy down here in the summer – manic down here in the summer – but the problem in this city right now is the volume of properties on the market.

“There’s so many landlords selling because of the renters reform bill and that’s pushing the prices down, because they will drop their prices in order to be the next sale. Grace has got nothing to do with the property market here. It’s not affected it in the slightest,” he confirmed.

According to Kieran, the average home price varies relying on the half of the town however a three mattress household home will be bought for between £600,000 to £700,000 for anybody who needs to soak up the environment of the filming places of their day-to-day life.

While the world will not be enticing to these shopping for a home, the show is a big hit and thousands and thousands are anticipated to tune in for the debut episode.

Leading man John Simm has hinted at a dramatic begin to the forthcoming season. Appearing on The One Show on BBC One on Friday (4 April), Simm revealed the story begins a “bit further in time” and sees the devastating loss of a child by Roy and Cleo Morey, portrayed by Zoe Tapper.

He defined: “It’s a little bit further in time and sadly you discover that Roy and Cleo have lost their baby so it’s a pretty traumatic start.

“They are additionally coping with a son that they did not know that they had, who I feel from the top of final sequence they confronted the hospital so they’re coping with that, so it is fairly a traumatic starting.”