Essays / Field notes

Thinking in public.

Long-form notes for practitioners who want to understand not only what happened, but why a real estate decision made sense.

The Development
Playbook

Field notes / Essays and arguments

Land · Capital · Design · Delivery · Operations

Development

A practical guide to setting pre-sales thresholds using lender conditions, funding gaps, buyer deposits, cancellation buffers, and sales velocity.

Capital

A decision guide for comparing home ownership with renting and investing the deposit, monthly savings, and avoided transaction costs.

Urban Growth

An illustrated field note on Nairobi’s shift from one dominant centre toward a connected constellation of specialised urban nodes.

Practice

I did not move away from architecture. I followed its questions into land, capital, risk, and the wider system that determines what gets built.

Development

A development is a chain of decisions about land, time, capital, approvals, people, and risk. The building is only its most visible evidence.

Urban Growth

Why extra floor area can create value on paper while shifting costs onto infrastructure, mobility, and everyday life.

Capital

A practical way to move from rent anecdotes and glossy comparables to a defensible residential investment view.

AI for Real Estate

Where language models can accelerate site research—and where professional judgment still has to carry the decision.

Architecture

Design is not decoration added after the model works. It is one of the mechanisms by which the model works.

REITs

What listed real estate teaches private developers about durability, disclosure, and the quality of cash flow.