Hilary Farr and David Visentin from Love It or List It are pretty well-matched, but Hilary’s “Love It” side tends to win more often.
Love It or List It makes it even more difficult for homeowners to house-hunt, as they also have the option to stay in their current home and upgrade it.
Although both David (on the “List It” side) and Hilary (on the “Love It”) side, do their best in every episode, Hilary tends to win more often.
Why fans love Love It or List It
Usually, the main conflict in house-hunting shows comes from the crucial decision of which house a couple will choose. But the HGTV hit show, Love It or List It, takes this conflict to a whole new level.
In Love It or List It, homeowners’ decisions are not only limited to a series of new homes within their budget, but they also include the option to simply upgrade their current family home, so that it can be closer to what they want.
This either opens up a whole new world of possibilities, or a whole new can of worms – depending on how indecisive the homeowners are.
Who wins more often on Love It or List It?
Love It or List It not only pits these different upgrade options against each other, but also the show’s two co-hosts, Hilary Farr and David Visentin.
Hilary is a celebrated designer, who works very hard to renovate the homeowners’ current homes to try to entice them to “Love It.”
David, on the other hand, uses all of his real-estate expertise to find the perfect replacement home, which will convince the homeowners to “List” their current home.
Part of the fun of watching Love It or List It is trying to guess which decision the homeowners will make at the end of each episode. But the show has over 200 episodes and it can be quite difficult to keep track of the wins for each host.
Hilary and David are both pretty equally matched when it comes to their quick wits, real-estate skills and overall wins, but Hilary does tend to win more episodes than David.
In fact, over the course of the show’s first nine seasons, there were only two seasons in which Hilary did not come out on top (and one of these was season eight, where both hosts walked away with eight wins overall).
Hilary is definitely excellent at what she does, but it is worth mentioning that staying in a newly-upgraded home is often much less trouble than listing your home and moving to a new one.
This definitely gives the “Love It” side an advantage over the “List It” side.
Is Hilary Farr a real designer?
It certainly takes a lot of skill to transform a space from unlivable, to one that is so practical and beautiful, that it convinces a homeowner not to sell their house or start over somewhere else.
But Hilary’s years of experience as a real-life designer who has worked all over the globe, has certainly helped her to do this time and time again on Love It or List It.
In fact, Hilary’s career as an interior designer has been so successful that she has even branched out into product design with her own line of branded linen and furnishings.
Is David Visentin really a real-estate agent?
David Visentin’s real-estate career also began way before Love It or List It started airing, when he started working as a real-estate agent for Country Living Realty in 1987. He has worked there ever since.
The majority of David’s real-estate career has been focused on the Southern Ontario market, but his years on Love It or List It have proven that his fine negotiation skills and good eye for the perfect property serve him well no matter what area he is in.
Do the Love It or List It hosts get a prize if they win?
Although it is always fun to watch homeowners weigh up the pros and cons of every possible option on Love It or List It, the hosts’ clever back and forth certainly makes the show more enjoyable to watch.
Both Hilary and David have admitted that they take their “friendly” competition on the show personally at times, with David stating “We actually do get really angry.”
Moreover, Hilary admitted that poking fun at David whenever she can is her “great mission in life.”
Though the hosts do take their ongoing Love It or List It competition very seriously, they do not actually win a prize (besides the bragging rights, of course) for convincing the homeowners to “Love It” or to “List It”.
