Over at the Telegraph, Angela Pertusini meets Michael Holmes, developer, editor-in-chief of Homebuilding & Renovating magazine and author of this. He talks to Pertusini about how he got from buying his landlady's place in Maida Vale to his current (rather odd) mock-Georgian house (with "modern" glass extension) in just 13 years. Not all of it - for me, anyway - is entirely comfortable reading...

... he is someone who is completely unable to resist a deal, to ignore an angle: when his father died recently, instead of selling his home, he immediately applied for - and was granted - consent to demolish the house and build two new ones on the plot. A developer paid handsomely for this uplift.

But perhaps that's just an example of why I'm not cut out for the life of a property mogul. Tthere's no denying his skill, courage and energy; and what he has to say about micro-markets can't be said often enough. Go here for the piece.

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