Lanre
Olutimilehin FRICS

A career connecting institutional capital with the realities of real estate.

Lanre Olutimilehin is a real estate finance and advisory professional with over twenty years of experience across investment banking, capital markets, asset management, real estate consulting, and public-sector advisory in Nigeria and internationally.

He is a Founding Director of Trillium Real Estate Partners, the Nigerian affiliate of JLL, and Strategic Advisor at Diya Fatimilehin & Co. His work spans investment sales, transaction structuring, capital strategy, and advisory for institutional investors and developers.

Previously, he served as Head of West Africa at JLL and as Acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of ARIA, the Persianas Group’s asset management business behind The Palms Lekki and a wider shopping-centre portfolio. Earlier roles at Goldman Sachs International in London, Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria, and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Finance underpin his perspective on the relationship between finance, policy, and property.

His particular interests are housing markets, real estate finance, and institutional investment. He has supported the development of the MOFI Real Estate Investment Fund and leads Diya Fatimilehin & Co’s work as one of its technical advisers.