Declan King, MRICS MSCSI
Senior Partner and Group Head, Real Estate
Declan King is the Senior Partner and Group Head of Real Estate at ValuStrat, bringing over 30 years of extensive international and regional experience to the leadership of the firm's real estate valuation and research divisions.
Executive Profile
A dual-qualified Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), UK, and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (MSCSI), Declan ensures that all advisory outputs adhere to the highest global standards of integrity and technical precision. His two-decade career prior to the Middle East was anchored in Dublin, Ireland, encompassing property development, sales, and complex valuations.
Since relocating to the GCC, he has held senior mandates including Manager of Valuation & Research at Hamptons International UAE and Manager of Residential Valuations at Colliers International in Abu Dhabi. At ValuStrat, Declan applies this wealth of institutional knowledge to advise a diverse portfolio of government entities, local corporations, multinational conglomerates, and high-net-worth private individuals.
Real Estate Advisory & Client Value
- Institutional Valuations: Directs comprehensive reporting for secured lending, statutory audits, and complex legal and transactional requirements.
- Process Optimisation: Enhances divisional operations and business frameworks to ensure scalable, rapid, and precise valuation delivery.
- Strategic Market Research: Oversees the production of actionable real estate intelligence to guide institutional investment strategies.
Core Areas of Expertise
- Real Estate Valuation for Lending, M&A, Taxation and other purposes
- Divisional Process Engineering
- Strategic Real Estate Advisory & Research
- Real Estate Thought Leadership
Qualifications & Professional Affiliations
- 30+ years of global and regional real estate advisory experience
- 12+ years of real estate advisory and valuations leadership at ValuStrat
- Professional Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS), UK
- Professional Member, Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (MSCSI)
