Syed Masood is the son of Masood Ahmed and Zainab Masood and the brother of Tamwar Masood and Shabnam Masood.
Before Eastenders
Syed took money from his family's buisness, and was kicked out by his father. The rest of the family thought he had run away on his own free will.In this time, he had developed a housing company which had gone bust and was left with two flats.
During EastEnders
Syed's mother Zainab had found contacts to her son through Tamwar, when Syed asked him for money. When the two met, they went to Syed's flat which was very elegant and Zainab realised he was not struggling as she thought he would.
When Masood found out that he was not rich, he would not talk to his son as he worked in Masala Queen, but he eventually started to trust him. To get closer to his family, he moved in with Janine Butcher.