Kirsty has been the Property Editor at The Scotsman for the past four years and is also heard frequently on Radio Scotland including co-presenting the Fred MacAuley show as a guest host for a week during last summer.

Kirsty started starting working life in an estate agents' in Glasgow during the property boom of the late 1980s before moving into selling overseas property with a two year stint living and working in Cyprus.

Back in Scotland having completed an English and Media degree at Stirling University she began working for The Scotsman in 1997 as a news researcher. Since then Kirsty has covered news and features, commissioning, editing and writing. 

Along with her husband Kirsty has recently built a house in Argyll  committing herself to "one of Scotland's longest, if most beautiful, commutes."