Saheed Oyelakin
Saheed Oyelakin reports for Punch, covering real estate stories that sit at the intersection of celebrity culture, online influence and property law. He has more than two years of newsroom experience across metro, technology, sports, politics and human-interest beats, bringing a consistent, clear news style to each. Real estate coverage is a recurring thread in his work, anchored in high-value property deals, public gifting and the legal and regulatory questions those deals raise.
High-value property gifts and legal questions
His real estate reporting concentrates on large-ticket property transactions and the public theatre around them. In the coverage of real estate entrepreneur King Mohamed Adah, known as King Ochacho, gifting a ₦400m mansion to TikTok creator Peller and his wife, he documents the spectacle of the wedding, the personalities involved and the financial scale of the house in Abuja.
He follows that story into its legal aftermath, highlighting a lawyer’s explanation that keys, a Power of Attorney and allocation papers do not by themselves amount to a perfected transfer of title. Across these pieces he relies on direct quotations and concrete figures to make the mechanics of property gifting and land transfer accessible to a broad audience.
Policy, regulation and everyday impact
He frequently covers policy decisions and regulatory actions with an emphasis on what they mean in practice for ordinary people.
In the report on the competition regulator’s probe into Uber’s exit, he frames the investigation through consumer protection concerns and the future of ride-hailing users. Pieces on the examination body JAMB extending admission acceptance deadlines and the UAE updating jobseeker visa rules focus on timelines, eligibility and procedural steps that affected applicants need to track.
Coverage of the suspension of a security corps commandant after miners’ deaths and warnings from the drug enforcement agency about receiving unknown cargoes presents official decisions and advisories in compact, fact-driven write-ups that foreground public safety and institutional response.
Sports and entertainment as news beats
Saheed works regularly on sports and entertainment assignments, treating match results and cultural moments as straight news rather than opinion. In coverage of Nigeria’s 10–1 victory over New Caledonia at the U-20 World Cup and AFCON 2027 qualifying fixtures, he focuses on scores, tournament context, and upcoming games in a chronological structure built around results and schedules. Entertainment and celebrity pieces, such as the story on tributes to actor Olu Jacobs and the private dinner meeting between President Tinubu and businessman Femi Otedola, balance prominent names with concrete details of events, venues and quoted statements.
His reporting on the extravagant Ochacho–Peller wedding sits in the overlap between entertainment and real estate, capturing the guest list and social media attention alongside the mansion gift itself.
Politics and public figures across beats
Political stories in his archive track official travel, appointments and the deaths of public figures in a straightforward, informational tone. The piece on Tinubu mandating Shettima to lead Nigeria’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly summarises the directive, outlines the role of the delegation and situates it within ongoing diplomatic engagement. Obituary coverage of an ex-senator and tributes to Olu Jacobs emphasises chronology and public reactions through statements from political and cultural figures rather than analysis.
Across these assignments he keeps the focus on verifiable details and quoted sources, consistent with his stated commitment to accurate and balanced journalism and to producing clear, engaging reports across diverse beats.
Alongside these political, regulatory, sports and entertainment stories, he also reports on technology themes such as debates over artificial intelligence terminology, capturing the exact language used by high-profile figures and its implications for the sector. The overall pattern of his work shows a reporter comfortable moving between trending entertainment items, high-value real estate stories and regulatory or diplomatic updates, while maintaining a consistent emphasis on factual detail and accessible, plain-language news writing.
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Addie Morfoot
Addie Morfoot covers how real estate, culture and media meet, focusing on people, rules and the way homes shape a life. She reports for The New York Times on housing and lifestyle, from personal narratives about finding a home after loss to features on how short-term rental policy affects everyday owners and renters. She writes real estate stories that connect laws and regulations to the choices available to ordinary residents in specific towns and cities. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Routine franchise, following actors, comedians and designers through a typical day and showing how settings like homes, studios and subway cars shape daily experience. She also has a long track record covering documentary film and the entertainment business, including legal questions around fair use, changing docu-series formats, festival premieres and financing. Her portfolio spans more than two decades of work for The New York Times, Variety, The Wall Street Journal and Crain’s New York Business.
Alcynna Lloyd
Alcynna Lloyd is a real estate reporter and economic journalist at Business Insider whose work is distinct for treating housing as a core economic system people must navigate. She covers how housing markets, costs, and mobility shape everyday life decisions, connecting data on rents, home prices, and city trends with stories of people managing debt, multigenerational living, and moves abroad. Her beat centers on housing costs, renters, and household strategies, following renters pushing back against landlords and tracking “desperate home sellers” using concessions in unaffordable markets. A second strand of her coverage focuses on relocation, remote work, and cheap cities as everyday economic strategies. She regularly uses rankings and lists, such as best and worst states to buy a home and Rising Stars of Real Estate, and reads city housing and migration shifts as signs of broader economic change.
Alec Lazenby
Alec Lazenby covers how provincial politics and government decisions shape housing, real estate and the wider social fabric. He reports for The Vancouver Sun from the provincial legislature. His work examines HousingHub, middle-income rentals, affordability, stalled projects, empty condos, developer layoffs, municipal housing targets and land use. He also covers health, addiction, safer supply, involuntary care, water rights, resource management, Indigenous rights and Crown land. Lazenby connects policy language to specific buildings, rents, projects, services and people. He explains financial, regulatory and market pressures, then follows how institutions, professionals, developers, municipalities and affected communities respond. His reporting tests government goals against practical outcomes and shows how policy reversals, construction costs, interest rates and political accountability shape housing and public life.
Amir Ali
Amir Ali links housing, disputes, and oddball neighbourhood stories in case-based, street-level reporting for Daily Hive. He holds a senior editorial and writing role, listed on the masthead as part of Vancouver leadership and described as a staff writer. His core beat is real estate, especially the rental market and housing affordability, tracking rent ranges, market shifts, and how pressures land on people trying to stay housed. He also covers crime, civil tribunals, and mental health, explaining decisions and conflicts in plain language that focuses on timelines, behaviour, and outcomes. Ali writes offbeat hyperlocal features, traffic and transport disruptions, business, food, and general local news, often turning infrastructure, small businesses, and civic systems into tangible stories. A former radio producer, he brings tight pacing and clear stakes to written pieces and maintains an active social media presence as a broadcaster and writer.