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I was totally thinking about how these shows must be faked in some way. I just figured they payed people to go looking, despite the fact they actually have a nice enough home(s) and don't actually need to move.
They are faked, at least partially.
I was friends with a guy who was on an episode of a one season HGTV show called "Container Homes." He and his wife at the time actually wanted to buy or build a container home.
They had talked to a developer and were going to have one built. Got on the show somehow. After the show started filming, some off-screen drama happened with the developer, and an HOA or zoning board or something, and long story short they were denied the permits to build one. But the show wanted to keep going, so they used the construction of developer's office, which was also a container building, for footage, and when it was completed did a super quick, rather pathetic job of making it look like it was decorated as a house. Then filmed the "reveal," which at that point was just kind of rubbing salt in the wound. He looked so dead inside, it's hilarious.
A lot of the house hunter-type shows are allegedly shot with couples who are already closing on a house, and then HGTV just takes them out and films them just looking at other houses literally for show.