"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message

IIRC, there is some sort of a lease deal. The show owns the house and
leases it to the new "owners", thus avoiding the tax. I don't know the
details, only that is was in the newspaper some time ago.

I'm willing to bet that this "lease arrangement" is also designed to prevent
a family who has just been given a new house from immediately selling it off
for the money.