From the very beginning it was announced that the final, sole, deciding factor would be appraised value. The winners said, in every episode, that that was their goal: appraisal value. Professionally, they had the best background to know just what would most influence appraised value. So, no surprise to real estate professionals when they won. The winning teams for each episode were actually selected based of that episode's judge's design preferences, not appraised value. That was mentioned, in passing, pretty much only when a design decision was clearly bad for the appraised value, or at least in the opinion of the judge for THAT episode.
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