InkBlot Narratives · Unscripted

PACT
HOUSE

More house. More people. More everything.

Renovation Series Co-Buying · Co-Living Modern Relationships
57% of Millennials would consider
co-buying with a non-romantic partner
70% of Gen Z would consider
co-buying with a non-romantic partner
60M+ Americans in multi-generational
households, a record high
40yr low in housing affordability -
the worst since the 1980s
The Concept

Too many cooks in the kitchen. Literally.

Everyone loves watching a couple fight about the man-cave versus the walk-in closet. But what happens when there are more than two people with opinions, budgets, and non-negotiables?

Thanks to rising costs, shifting values, and seismic demographic change, Americans are pooling their resources to buy homes together in extraordinary new configurations — friends, extended families, chosen families, intentional communities, and polyamorous partnerships.

Pact House follows the co-buying and renovation process from first wishlist to finished home, as groups of people navigate the beautiful, messy, hilarious challenge of building a shared life inside shared walls. More personalities. More drama. More extraordinary homes. Stories no renovation show has ever told.

Why Now

The affordable housing crisis is forcing Americans to get creative, and television hasn't caught up.

Home prices have risen more than 55% since 2020. Mortgage rates hit their highest levels in a generation. The median American home now costs over $420,000, more than six times the median household income.

For millions of Americans, the traditional path to homeownership is simply gone. What's replacing it is something more interesting: co-buying, co-living, and creative housing arrangements that reflect a genuinely different way of building a life.

Pact House doesn't just entertain, it reflects a real national moment. These aren't fringe stories. They're the future of how America lives.

2020 2025
+55% Rise in home prices since 2020
$215K $420K 2020 Today
$420K Median US home price, a record high
90% INTEREST 90% interest 10% principal
7%+ 30-year mortgage rates, highest since 2001
75%
75% of first-time buyers would consider using a co-buyer
The Format

Five acts. One pact.

01
House Rules

Before they see a single property, the co-buyers must agree on expectations. Fault lines open immediately.

02
House Tours

Host Page Turner walks both parties through properties that could work, assessing how space might divide, share, or create conflict.

03
Seal the Deal

A co-family down payment is as binding as a marriage. Cold feet. Last-minute doubts. A decision that changes everything.

04
Custom Renovation

The heart of the show. Budget battles, competing visions, and the transformation of one unusual house into something nobody's built before.

05
Full House

Months later. How's co-living actually going? What worked, what broke, and what do they wish they'd known before they signed?

The Stories

Every family is a different kind of fascinating.

Each episode is its own world, a different household type, a different set of stakes, a different vision of what home can mean. America's changing. Its houses should too.

60M+ Episode Type 01
Three Generations

More than 60 million American families live in multi-generational households. Young parents get free babysitting. Grandparents get family. Everyone gets a generation gap in taste.

57% Episode Type 02
Young Families

Millennials say they'd co-buy with a non-romantic partner. Two young couples with kids try a novel solution, and immediately disagree about the commute.

75% Episode Type 03
Boomerangs

75% of young adults who move back with their parents are satisfied. This episode finds the layout that makes independence possible, inside the same walls.

35K+ Episode Type 04
Big Love

At least 35,000 practicing polygamists live openly in the U.S. One family converted a former B&B. Another a church. The spaces they build are extraordinary.

Chosen family household
39% Episode Type 05
Chosen Families

For 39% of LGBTQ adults who've faced rejection, living with the family you choose is everything. Two queer couples. One house. Urban living with a garden.

1.5M Episode Type 06
Polyamorous

1–1.5 million Americans identify as poly. They say they live "without doors or walls." What does that actually mean when you're designing a shared home?

Together apart co-living arrangement
6–9% Episode Type 07
Living Apart Together

6–9% of adults have a partner who lives elsewhere. One couple bought two houses side-by-side on a single lot. Different decor. Different sleep schedules. Same love.

↑160% Episode Type 08
Intentional Communities

Intentional co-housing applications surged 160% since 2020. From Christian fellowships to interfaith collectives, shared dining rooms, workshops, libraries. Architecture unlike anything on TV.

Page Turner
Potential Host

Page Turner

Real Estate Broker · Television Host

Real estate broker and house-flipping expert Page Turner already has renovation shows in her DNA, guiding overwhelmed flippers through Fix My Flip, making her network debut on Flip or Flop Nashville, and appearing as guest judge on Rock the Block. She holds licenses in three states.

And she's been there. Page spent years living in a three-generation household with her mother and children, which means she doesn't just understand co-buying intellectually. She's lived the compromises, the disputes, and the rewards firsthand.

Fix My Flip Flip or Flop Nashville Rock the Block Licensed in 3 States