Square Saam acquires unconsented and brownfield land, secures planning consent for residential and mixed-use development, and delivers it to PLC and regional housebuilders. Each project sits in a purpose-built limited liability partnership, ring-fenced for clarity of ownership, reporting, and exit. Planning, design, and disposal are coordinated through consultants retained on a project basis. Square Saam draws on two decades of platform-level experience across UK residential land, mixed-use development, and prime commercial property investments.
Residential schemes of fifty to five hundred homes, and mixed-use redevelopments incorporating residential, commercial, education, or care components. Other sectors considered opportunistically.
Active across the country, with a working focus on the South-East, South-West, and Home Counties.
Settlement-edge land suitable for residential allocation, brownfield sites in established locations, and selective redevelopment opportunities.
Our approach is led by viability and design quality, with schemes typically aligned to Council Local Plans and emerging policy. Sites are advanced through the local plan-making process in active dialogue with planning officers, members, and the wider community, with their input taken into account in scheme design. Each scheme is underwritten with a viability case, design work-up, and policy alignment ahead of submission. Consultants are retained on a project basis.
2002. The platform was established with Far East origins as a UK commercial property fund. The portfolio was divested at the onset of the recession in 2007, returning capital ahead of the cycle.
2007. The platform's residential and mixed-use land focus was established the same year — acquisition of unconsented and brownfield land, advanced through planning, and delivered to UK housebuilders. The platform has operated continuously in this space since.
2019. A separate commercial property income vehicle was founded, investing in prime UK assets with active management.
2026. Square Saam established to bring forward the platform's residential and mixed-use land approach under a refreshed vehicle, with new investor partners and a next-generation operating team.
The platform's founding partners have delivered residential and mixed-use land projects to PLC and regional housebuilders for two decades, with activity across the South-East, South-West, Home Counties, and Midlands. A separate prime UK commercial property portfolio has operated since 2019. Detailed project information is available on request to qualified counterparties.
Twenty years in corporate finance across direct investments, capital markets, and turnarounds. Chairs the Audit Committee for several publicly traded companies in Thailand. MBA, SASIN Graduate Business School, Chulalongkorn University; BA Economics, University of Illinois.
Chief Operating Officer at the platform's commercial property arm since 2019, with earlier platform experience in residential land. Previously an investment analyst at Aberdeen Asset Management Asia.