Antoine Sailly

Antoine joined HECTARE, one of France's leading land developers, in 2016, and left in 2023 as Regional Director. In between he opened the group's South West agency — two people at the start, nine when he left, €18m of annual turnover — and took residential schemes from the first conversation with a landowner through consent, infrastructure and delivery. The largest was 118,000 m²: eight hundred future residents, a school, parks and a market square. The smallest was five plots.

The work was specific and unglamorous. Finding land. Testing what it could carry. Negotiating with mayors and planning departments who had no particular reason to help. Briefing architects and engineers. And carrying the file through consultation, objection and appeal to the point where something actually got built.

He holds a double Master's in Urbanism and Spatial Planning from Lille — majoring in sustainable construction and spatial planning, and in land engineering and policy — on top of a degree in geography and territorial planning and an earlier one in civil engineering. In practice it means he reads a feasibility model and a topographic survey with the same attention, and knows when the two disagree.

In 2024 he moved to Manila as Executive Business Developer for Woola Philippines, a travel company, where he ran the French market. An unusual line on a development CV, and a deliberate one: two years living in a market rather than visiting it, working with its hotels and resorts, and a direct read on where travellers actually want to stay. In coastal markets, tourism demand leads residential value by several years. It is the same read that underwrote the villa at Ungasan.

Latitude exists because those two experiences turn out to be the same job. European development discipline is a method, not a jurisdiction. It travels.