17 Dec 2020, 10:15
In the latest in a series of interviews with the region’s place makers for Christmas, Place North West asks Phil Mayall, development director at Muse Developments, about lockdown ‘bench swimming’ and his love for extreme triathlons.
Why did you choose a career in property/placemaking?
My dad is a plasterer by trade, and I would work for him at weekends and school holidays. That sparked an interest in buildings but certainly not in mixing plaster! Around that time, my parents had agreed a sale of the family home and it was my job to let the surveyor in to value the house. It took him all of 10 minutes and when my parents explained the cost of a valuation I thought ‘that sounds like the career for me’. Fast forward several years and I soon became bored of inspecting houses, but developed an interest in property development.