Kate is a fourth generation agricultural valuer. Growing up in Cheshire, she developed an interest in land agency while helping her father at Chelford Market and went on to complete a degree in rural land management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. After graduating, Kate spent more than a decade in private practice, in Cumbria, Wiltshire and Lincolnshire, dealing with a wide variety of professional work for landlords, owner-occupiers and tenants. During that time she briefly returned to the Royal Agricultural College to spend several years as a lecturer in rural estate management. 

In 2008, Kate joined Jeremy Moody, Secretary and Adviser to the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, as a technical and policy adviser. Her current areas of work include residential lettings, compulsory purchase and compensation, planning, taxation and a wide range of other matters from telecommunications infrastructure to business rates. She produces the annual CAAV Costings, the CAAV Agricultural Land Occupation Survey and the CAAV Fees Survey and edits the Members’ Handbook and quarterly News Letter. She has contributed to a number of CAAV publications on residential and commercial tenancies, property taxation, compulsory purchase and telecommunication masts.

Kate is a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the Compulsory Purchase Association. She sits on the RELM Advisory Board for the Royal Agricultural University and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farmers, where she currently serves on the Affiliations Committee.