Kirsty Darkins MRICSE: [email protected]: www.kdcommercial.co.uk About Kirsty ...I am a Chartered Surveyor by profession, starting in property in 1999 at an independent firm InnesEngland in Nottingham. During my career I have worked for blue chip companies including Boots,CBRE and Hammerson. I have a broad range of property and business experience havingmanaged multi million commercial and residential property portfolios across the UK and Ireland forover 20 years. Over the last 6 years I have built my own consultancy business and portfolio ofcommercial property investments including retail, office and mixed use properties. I took a career break in 2014, travelled in Europe and did a lot of self-development education. Thiswas the beginning of my transition from property professional to property investor. Having achievedmy professional goals I knew that working for someone else exchanging time for money was nolonger what I wanted to do. In 2016 I set up my own property consultancy and began investing inapartments on a Rent to Rent basis in Nottingham running them as Serviced Accommodation. Ialso launched Progressive Property Network, a monthly network meeting in Birmingham and havebuilt a strong investor network and contact base as a result. Today I have a twin focus, my commercial property consultancy KD Commercial and building myown commercial property investment portfolios with my business partners Jamie MacPherson in JKPropCo for commercial investments and Jon Ballard in Wem Commercial for commercial andmixed use developments. I have also transferred my pensions to a SIPP investing jointly with otherSIPP investors in commercial property flips.