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Property Funds World
12th April 2021
Valor acquires four prime urban logistics assets in Paris and Lyon for EUR30m SUBMITTED

Valor Real Estate Partners (Valor), Acpan-European urban logistics platform, has added to its EUR1 billion-plus portfolio with the acquisition of four urban logistics properties located in prime Paris and Lyon sub-markets, for a total consideration of EUR30 million.

Valor has acquired a 2,000 sq m industrial vacant unit in Créteil, 10 km south east Paris. The asset was owned by Rolesco, a French SME specialised in refrigeration products. Créteil is one of the most attractive submarkets in Paris with a structural supply shortfall and increasing tenant demand.
 
In Argenteuil, north-west Paris, Valor has recently completed the off-market purchase of a high specification 10,500 sq m warehouse located 12km from Paris from a French luxury catering company part of the Do & Co group. The warehouse currently vacant benefits from its proximity to the affluent western Paris suburbs and provides immediate access to the A86, Paris’ second inner ring road. 
 
In a third transaction, Valor has acquired a vacant 7,000 sq m industrial warehouse in Chaponnay, 13 km south east of Lyon, from the previous occupier Oxymetal. The asset is currently vacant and will be fully refurbished including new cladding, new office plot and new doors. Once repositioned, the asset will be split into two urban distribution units which will accommodate future tenants in a market suffering from a lack of available high-quality products. 
 
Finally, Valor has just completed on the acquisition of a 3,600 sq m vacant low site density warehouse in Saint Priest, 12 km south east of Lyon from the previous occupier Ciffreo Bona. The asset sits on a 18,000 sq m plot and will be entirely renovated.
 
These four assets have been acquired from owner occupiers during the global pandemic demonstrating Valor’s ability to offer a flexible and quick capital solution as well as a strong deal execution capacity.
 
Ben Brunschwig, Senior Vice President at Valor, says: “These transactions underline our ability to identify and acquire assets in highly granular and competitive markets, offering near term asset potential via repositioning and leasing activity. The warehouses are ideally located for last-mile delivery in critically undersupplied infill sub-markets on the edge of Paris and Lyon, with immediate access to arterial roads and in two of Western Europe’s most densely populated cities.  With future development likely to be restricted by land availability, this should further underpin rents and performance moving forward.”
 
Valor was advised by CBRE for Créteil, Nexity Conseil et Transactions for Argenteuil, JLL for Chaponnay and Brice Robert/Malsch for Saint-Priest transactions.
 
Oudot & associés (notaries), Simmons & Simmons (tax and structuring), Hogan Lovells (construction), AMF-QSE (TEDD) advised on the transactions.