Valor strengthens senior team

Valor Real Estate Partners has appointed Victor Massias to the newly created role of head of developments, as it looks to further build out its development capabilities in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe.

Massias, who joined Valor in 2016, has also been promoted to partner, strengthening Valor’s senior leadership team alongside Christian Jamison, managing partner, and Cane Napolitano, head of investments.

In his new role, Massias will oversee all of Valor’s in-house development activity, including delivering the current pipeline of more than 1 million square feet in London and Paris, from origination through to construction and stabilization. Development will form an increasingly important part of Valor’s future strategy, as it seeks to maximize capital returns through its investment in urban logistics assets. The appointment follows the November 2020 launch of a joint venture with QuadReal to invest more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in urban logi