Thousands flock to The Block opens

Some 25,000 plus people turned up to The Block’s initial weekend open for inspections, taking the opportunity to inspect the four listed Richmond properties.

The wait at the weekend open for sections was up to four hours.

And on Sunday night MasterChef only narrowly beat The Block for top spot in the ratings.

Channel Ten’s food show pipped Nine’s reality program by 7,000 viewers, winning the night with 1.731 million.

The four cottages have been listed for August 20 auction.

In 2003 fewer, but still thousands of people flocked to the open for inspections of the Bondi Beach units in the first series, with the estate agents challenged by sorting the genuine buyers from the show’s fans.

It’s the first of the four series to be held in Melbourne, with the fifth series of The Block also set for Melbourne, after the television show production company spending some $3,025,000 on four unrenovated Dorcas Street, South Melbourne terraces.