Pan-European logistics platform Valor Real Estate Partners has invested 鈧26m to buy an urban warehouse in France鈥檚 capital from a private vendor.

The 15,000sqm property, situated on a 26,000sqm site, is located in the submarket of Garges-l猫s-Gonesse, north Paris.

Valor said it intends to undertake a full refurbishment of the unit.

Valor, which has been active in the Paris market since 2017, said the deal is the first Paris logistics acquisition on behalf of its 鈧1bn specialist urban logistics investment vehicle launched in November last year. 

The vehicle intends to deploy up to a billion euros in leading cities across UK, France and Germany, across the full risk spectrum of stabilised assets, vacant or short-income assets and ground-up development. To date, Valor has deployed or committed a total of over 鈧365m on behalf of the vehicle.

Ben Brunschwig, a senior vice president at Valor Real Estate Partners, said: 鈥淭his is a significant acquisition in a highly-competitive and illiquid sub-market, where there is a shortage of modern distribution space and the majority of assets are in private ownership.

鈥淭he unit offers scale in a dense urban location, and excellent connectivity to central Paris and the wider road network, making it ideally suited for refurbishment as high-specification and environmentally-efficient distribution space.鈥

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