Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

I think a lot of people were under the impression that property development was a way of becoming a millionaire in six months, while doing nothing, and I don't think that's the case. And I'm not sure it ever has been, really.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.