Entrepreneur and TV presenter
Sarah set up her first property development company aged just 24, along with her brother Diccon and now husband Graham Swift. In 2005, Sarah started mysinglefriend.com. The site was a phenomenal success and pivotal in changing the UK’s attitude to online dating. In 2014, Sarah launched an online estate agency, revolutionising the way in which we sell our homes, saving customers millions of pounds in fees and disrupting the industry. She has subsequently created a number of exciting businesses.
Sarah is best known for presenting shows such as Double Your House for Half the Money, Help! My House is Falling Down, and Property Ladder. Her passion for architectural heritage was brought to our screens in 2012, when Sarah, Graham and their four sons opened the doors to their exquisite home, allowing viewers of Sarah Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare to follow their epic refurbishment project. In 2020, Sarah let viewers into her home once more in Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country. This show followed the property guru and her family as they quit their lives in London and moved to a 220-acre, semi-derelict former dairy farm in Somerset, where they built their dream home. A daytime spin off launched in 2023 and the show’s highly anticipated fourth season is airing in 2024.
In 2022, Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer. She decided to share her story in the hope of helping others understand how far treatment had moved on since her mother died of breast cancer when she was ten years old. The award winning, deeply personal documentary Sarah Beeny vs Cancer, not only highlighted how a family has to share in illness but also explored the past, present and future of breast cancer treatment in the UK.
With over 25 years of experience, Sarah has written regular columns for newspapers and magazines, in addition to numerous books. Last year, Sarah published her memoir, The Simple Life which tells the story of her life through the properties she’s lived in and discovers how life is never as ‘simple’ as you would like it to be.
