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The team
Every Oliva byline is a real human with a public profile, a real beat, and verifiable credentials. The roster below covers the full editorial chain - founder, editorial leadership, the analytics + research desks that build the data, the regulatory specialist who pressure-tests the compliance side, and the investor-relations leads for the major foreign-buyer markets.
Licensed agent, RERA and DLD registered. 12+ years in Dubai real estate, private equity and investment banking.
Javier is the founder and president of Oliva. RERA-registered (BRN 1573501) and DLD-licensed (Broker Card 92025), with 12+ years across Dubai real estate, private equity, and investment banking. He signs off on every developer profile and every market analysis published on Oliva. His editorial focus is the parts of the Dubai market most foreign investors get wrong on their first attempt: how off-plan payment plans actually work once Oqood is registered, how RERA escrow protections behave when a project is delayed, and how the Golden Visa property route interacts with mortgage lending. Speaks English and Spanish. Press: press@joinoliva.com.
Senior Editor - Dubai property journalism, 8+ years.
Maria leads the Oliva editorial desk: assigning area guides and developer profiles, fact-checking transaction figures against DLD records, and signing off on every piece before publication. Eight years covering Dubai property for English- and Spanish-language trade publications across the post-2014 slowdown and the 2021-2025 boom. Her focus is the editorial choices that distinguish a useful guide from a brochure - which transaction comparables actually matter for an off-plan unit, and when an area guide should warn a foreign buyer rather than reassure them. Writes in English and Spanish. Editorial: editorial@joinoliva.com.
Investment Analyst - Dubai real estate analytics, 6+ years.
Raj is an Investment Analyst at Oliva. He writes the platform's yield, IRR, and cash-on-cash analysis pieces, and underwrites the assumptions that go into the financial dimensions of Oliva's scoring. Six years underwriting Dubai real estate before joining: off-plan acquisitions for individual investors, small-portfolio resale strategies, and mortgage-financed buy-to-let plays. Special focus on the parts of the Dubai market most relevant to Indian and South-Asian investors. CFA Level II candidate; BSc Finance. Writes in English and Hindi. Editorial: editorial@joinoliva.com.
Market Researcher - GCC real estate, 5+ years.
Lin owns the supply-side dataset at Oliva: project pipelines by area and developer, absorption velocity, and how scheduled handovers in 2026-2028 are likely to reshape Dubai's price-per-square-foot trends. Five years across GCC market research before joining, with sub-focus on Chinese capital flows into MENA property. She treats absorption-rate and price-trend claims the way an underwriter would: a number is only as good as the source you can point a reader to. MSc Real Estate Economics. Writes in Mandarin and English. Editorial: editorial@joinoliva.com.
Local Market Expert - Dubai brokerage, 10+ years (RERA-registered).
Amina is a RERA-registered agent with ten years on the ground in Dubai brokerage. She came up through primary off-plan launches at the major developers, then spent the last four years on the resale side - where most of the Dubai market's price discovery actually happens. Her area guides are the ones that take readers from the macro picture down to the building, not just the postal code. Special focus on Arabic-speaking GCC buyers (Saudi, Kuwaiti, Qatari, Bahraini). Writes in Arabic and English. Editorial: editorial@joinoliva.com.
Senior Real Estate Analyst - Dubai market data and transaction analysis, 7+ years.
Sara is a Senior Real Estate Analyst at Oliva. She owns the transaction-level dataset that feeds every comparable, every yield calculation, and every score the platform produces. Seven years in Dubai property analytics before joining: building transaction-screening pipelines for institutional buyers, covering the post-2020 reset and the 2021-2025 boom, and learning the failure modes of every public Dubai price index. MSc Quantitative Finance. Writes in English and Arabic. Press, data, or research: data@joinoliva.com.
Regulatory Specialist - RERA, DLD, Mollak, Tawtheeq, ICA, GDRFA, 9+ years.
Mohammed is the Regulatory Specialist on the Oliva team. He covers the full UAE real estate procedural stack: RERA project filings and Form A/B/F/I/U brokerage paperwork, DLD title deed and Oqood mechanics, Mollak service-charge audits, Tawtheeq for Abu Dhabi tenancy, and the ICA / GDRFA residency rules that govern Golden-Visa-route purchases. Nine years across compliance roles inside developers and Federal-level residency advisory. Writes in Arabic and English. Compliance research: compliance@joinoliva.com.
Investor Relations Lead - Indian and South-Asian buyer market, Golden Visa, mortgage structuring, 8+ years.
Priya runs Oliva's Indian and South-Asian investor desk. Her beat is the parts of the cross-border journey that go wrong when capital is moving across borders: RBI Liberalised Remittance Scheme limits, India-UAE Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement quirks, and joint-ownership structures that look fine in Dubai but create unwanted Indian tax exposures back home. Eight years in NRI investor advisory before joining. BCom Finance; cross-trained in RBI LRS and India-UAE DTA mechanics. Writes in English, Hindi, and Punjabi. Investor relations: priya@joinoliva.com.
International Markets Editor - Russian and CIS buyer market, structuring, repatriation, 7+ years.
Anastasia is Oliva's International Markets Editor, with primary coverage of the Russian and CIS buyer desk. Seven years across CIS-investor advisory in Cyprus, Turkey, and the UAE - which gives her a comparator's eye on the trade-offs Russian-speaking buyers actually weigh. She writes the international-buyer pieces, runs the Russian-language editorial alongside the English originals, and owns every piece comparing Dubai to a non-Western property market. MA International Economics. Writes in Russian, English, and Ukrainian. International press: anastasia@joinoliva.com.