My instinct and passion for property is inherent from a young age. I was likely the only teenager who devoured the property pages in The Irish Times and Irish Independent every week for as long as I can remember and long before the World Wide Web came into our lives.

My first business Get-Sorted launched in February 2002 two weeks after my second child Ellie was born. Timing is everything right? I also worked for a local estate agent on Saturdays showing homes for sale and was creative (Okay cheeky!) to insert my business material into the property brochures. It worked a treat!

Business grew steadily, along with intrigue about my service. Newspaper articles and radio interviews followed. Nobody else was doing what I was doing, which is acting exclusively as an agent for the purchaser to source and negotiate their new home. One gloomy Saturday in December while showing a home for sale, a camera crew arrives. Ireland’s version of the Channel 4 series, House Hunters (Coco Television/RTE1) were filming the house I was showing.

Little did I know at the time, but that confident rant put me in pole position in becoming the new presenter for House Hunters and House Hunters in the Sun (RTE1). A job which lasted seven seasons and one I loved! Expert roles followed; property columns in national newspaper media (Evening Herald, Irish Mail on Sunday, Business Post) property pundit roles on both RTE1 and TV3 (Virgin Media), radio commentary (Newstalk) and appearing at exhibitions and events (Ideal Homes, The Holiday Show.)