Savills has appointed Ollie Saunders as its new head of self storage. Saunders joins Savills after nine years at JLL, where he was latterly head of EMEA alternatives valuation advisory before his departure last year. Before JLL, Saunders worked as an equity partner at Deloitte following its merger with Drivers Jonas.

He went on to lead its real estate valuations business. Saunders has established a reputation within the European self-storage sector and has worked across the UK and EMEA regions covering M&A, valuation, consultancy and capital markets advice, which he will continue to focus on in his new role. Saunders will work within the operational capital markets team, based at the firm?s Margaret Street head office in London.