Scott Cam reveals The Block auctions were a ‘rollercoaster ride’

Scott Cam says The Block auctions were “full on” as the final countdown to the big reveal nears.

All five Block houses went under the hammer yesterday in Melbourne’s Mount Eliza, with the highly anticipated shown episode tonight.

While Cam was tight-lipped about the results of the auction, he told Weekend Today the day was “intense.”

“The vibes this morning are pretty full on as always afterThe Block auctions. I can’t give too much away, of course, I don’t even know why I’m here,” he joked.

“It was a rollercoaster of a ride yesterday, I am exhausted as always after auction day.

“It’s a really long day, and I feel a bit sick in the stomach for most of it, I can tell you it was full on.”

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He added the contestants were “absolutely” nervous about auction day given the unprecedented new reserve price laws in Victoria, and the dire clearance rates.

“With the way the market is in Victoria, 50 per cent clearance rates in the last coupe of weeks, the new laws that have come out where you’ve gotta reveal the reserve price, which no one really knows how that’s going to affect an auction, the vendor or the buyer,” he said.

“I think if you’ve got a fair reserve price, which ours were fair, it means people will turn up knowing how much they’ve got to spend.”

The reserve prices had already been revealed to the public before auction day.

The auctions happened to fall on the second weekend that the laws were in effect.

Each house had the same reserve of $3.45 million with a sale guideline of $3.6 million to $3.9 million.

That is, apart from Rick and Tayla and House 5, who won Week 12 and the prize of $50,000 knocked off their reserve.

Cam added the contestants were so nervous that some fell completely silent.

“They were at times on mute. They weren’t even talking at times, I had to really get them to open up to me throughout the auction because it was so unknown,” he said.

He added that he always wants the contestants to do well come auction day.

“I spend three months with these guys, they work really hard. We never set anybody up to fail on The Block, we always want them to make money and do well,” he said.

“We’re proud of what they’ve done, we always hope they make money and sometimes, as we’ve seen before, sometimes they don’t.”

The Block 2026 auctions will air on Channel 9 and 9now tonight, Sunday November 1 at 7pm. We’ll be live-blogging every moment the finale as it airs on Sunday evening.

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