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The real-estate market has spoken, and Drew Scott has won Season 7 of HGTV’s “Brother vs. Brother.”

Drew Scott made a net profit of $1.4 million on his Hancock Park house flip in Los Angeles, California. Twin brother Jonathan made a net profit of $1.2 million on his own flip.

Jonathan Scott actually bought, renovated and sold the house directly next door (appropriately nicknamed “The House Next Door”) to his twin brother Drew and sister-in-law Linda’s real home in the historic and ritzy neighborhood. Drew’s project for the competition, dubbed “The Corner Chateau,” was just down the street a few blocks.

Both brothers had budgeted $2 million for renovations. Jonathan went $40,000 over; Drew went $50,000 over budget.

Drew purchased his for $2.35 million and sold it for $5.8 million. Jonathan bought his house for $2.4 million and sold it for $5.64 million.

They each received multiple offers, but in the end, the competition was won by...

Marcia Brady is heading back to Hgtv… Maureen McCormick, who played the eldest Brady daughter Marcia in the ABC comedy The Brady Bunch, is fronting Frozen in Time for the Discovery-owned network.

McCormick, who was one of the six surviving Brady Bunch cast members to appear in A Very Brady Renovation, will host another home renovation series for the network.

The show, which is set to air this spring, will see McCormick and designer Dan Vickery overhaul homes that are stuck in a design time warp. In each episode, Vickery will bring the structure up-to-date, while McCormick sources decade-specific pieces that will give the home a refreshed look and a wink to its original era.

This follows the ratings success of A Very Brady Renovation, which saw the original cast overhaul the house used in the sitcom’s exterior shots. That show launched in September after Hgtv purchased the Studio City house.

Maureen McCormick is returning to Hgtv to co-host her own home-design series with designer Dan Vickery.

Called “Frozen in Time,” the new series was announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena.

“Maureen McCormick of ‘Brady Bunch’ fame returns to Hgtv to help overhaul homes that are stuck in a design time-warp in the new series ‘Frozen in Time,'” Hgtv president Jane Latman told reporters.

The series is set to debut in spring 2020.

Here is the official description from Hgtv:

“In Hgtv’s new home renovation series Frozen in Time, designer Dan Vickery and A Very Brady Renovation’s Maureen McCormick will overhaul homes that are stuck in a design time warp. In each episode, Dan will bring the structure up-to-date, while Maureen sources beautiful decade-specific pieces that will give the home a refreshed look and a wink to its original era.”

For “A Very Brady Renovation,...

Tonight’s episode of Hgtv Design Star finds the six remaining contestants battling to win a feature in an upcoming issue of the recently launched Hgtv Magazine. Synergy at its best! Hgtv Magazine editor-in-chief Sara Peterson will deliver this week’s challenge and finalists must create ultimate designer kitchens with a sink (yes, a sink!) as inspiration — alongside the show’s venerable host and season 1 winner, David Bromstad, who has contributed to the show variously over its seven seasons.

Bromstad was first a contestant, then a guest judge, and now, is the show’s host. And since he’s been...

Runner up Design Star Dan Vickery is a "Fan Favorite." Vickery, 26, an architect from Portland, Ore., and a runner-up in the hit reality competition Hgtv Design Star. He was selected by an online vote as the series' "Fan Favorite" designer. As the Fan Favorite, Dan has won the opportunity to host his own online design series on Hgtv.com. While the new series is expected to launch in early 2010, fans can visit the site within the coming week to view videos of Dan who will share his thoughts about the whole Hgtv Design Star experience, including the finale, the judges' decisions, favorite moments, and behind-the-scenes dish. He'll also reveal the topic of his new upcoming web series.

No surprise as set designer Antonio Ballatore, dubbed the "bad boy of design" by series judge Candice Olson, took the victory in last night's finale of Hgtv Design Star. A native New Yorker who is now based in Los Angeles, Antonio bested Dan Vickery, the designer from Portland, Oregon in the hardest challenge ever tackled in four seasons of the series -- where each finalist had to makeover an entire home, completing multiple rooms in just 44 hours. Set in Hollywood, the 4th season of Hgtv Design Star has performed well in ratings all season. Ballatore, 40, is a Below the Liner (crew) making his way in Los Angeles, and he has been crowned the season four champion.