VICTOR BARRERO
RIYADH · SAUDI ARABIA · SINCE 2009

Housing and relocation in Riyadh, from senior placements to workforce at scale.

I work with individuals landing here, with enterprises placing hundreds, and with the real estate and hospitality groups building the supply. Deep market network, sixteen years of context, and the AI and automation stack behind it.

PERSONAL SITE · 2026
01 · WORK
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Three tiers, one seat.

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SENIOR PLACEMENTS

C-level executives and their families.

Compound, neighbourhood, school, clinic, network. High-touch, one at a time, from the first call to the first ninety days. The kind of landing where the details matter and the decisions are hard to reverse.

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WORKFORCE AT SCALE

Enterprises placing hundreds.

HR teams, Vision 2030 entities, multinational headquarters. Bulk housing programmes across compound, apartment, and staff accommodation stock. Sourcing, contracting, and ongoing operations, delivered as a managed programme rather than a set of transactions.

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REAL ESTATE & HOSPITALITY

Advisory to the groups building the supply.

Compound operators, developers, and hotel groups navigating the residential category as it institutionalises. Positioning, operating model, capital structure, foreign LP conversations. The paper below is the framework I use.

02 · PAPER
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WHITEPAPER · FOREIGN CAPITAL FIELD GUIDE MAY 2026

Institutional Residential in Saudi Arabia. What the institutionalisation of US multifamily tells us about the next ten years in Riyadh.

A thirteen-page framework for institutional capital allocators evaluating Saudi residential. The parallel to US multifamily in the mid-1980s, the two talent flows running through Riyadh, the compound stock as the wedge, and the operator constraint that is currently being resolved.

Capital is plentiful. Supply is plentiful. Demand is plentiful. The constraint is the operator.
READ THE PAPER · PDF

The conversation to have now is the relationship. The capital deployment is twenty-four months out.

03 · PODCAST
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Inside Saudi.

PART 1 · OUT TODAY

An hour with Carly Overman and Vesna Petrovic on the 2009 arrival, the Facebook message that changed the summer, flynas through the Arab Spring, and what actually goes wrong when families land in Riyadh without a plan.

PART 2 · NEXT WEEK · EXPO 2030, VISION 2030, AND THE CURRENT CHAPTER
04 · CONTACT
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Get in touch.

Email or LinkedIn. I read everything and reply within a few days to the things I can usefully help with.