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MOTORING presenter Mike Brewer has bought and sold thousands of cars during his working life.
On the TV series Wrecks To Riches, he bought a pounds 300 banger and, after a series of deals, made enough to buy a new car.
But he reveals that he's also done the same thing off-screen - with houses. And now he is about to reap the rewards by buying a pounds 1 million house in the Midlands.
It has taken an extraordinary NINE moves in 10 years for Mike to pull off his own million-pound property deal.
It began with a pounds 72,000 house and will end with Mike's dream home, which he is currently looking for in the Stratford-upon- Avon area.
'I think this one will be our last move,' he says. 'I'm too exhausted. We feel like gypsies, moving on every year to 18 months. And I do most of the renovation work myself.
'We still have boxes from three moves ago that we haven't unpacked. I keep telling my wife to throw them away. She doesn't want to, but we haven't looked in them for three years so we clearly don't need the stuff!
'We've taken massive risks, taking out large mortgages we didn't know if we could pay back. We've overspent on every house but it's paid off and we've made a huge profit.
'Now I want to move from Oxford nearer to Birmingham, where most of my work is. I love Brum. It's a cracking, vibrant city - though I'm still intimidated by Broad Street on a Friday and Saturday night.'
Mike currently presents the series Pulling Power. It was made just for the Central region,...