Our Experts

Lalaine C. Delmendo

Lalaine C. Delmendo is the Global Property Guide's senior economist, and the author of many of the long-form country economic reports which are our flagship editorial product. She heads the Global Property Guide's economics team. 

Lalaine joined the Global Property Guide in July 2008. She is particularly interested in analysing financial and economics data.

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Maria de Guzman

Maria de Guzman is an economist and the author of many of the long-form country economic reports which are the Global Property Guide's flagship editorial product. 

Ms. De Guzman joined the Global Property Guide's economics team in July 2010.  She is particularly interested in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

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Heigo Protten

Heigo Protten is a senior property analyst for a leading international property company in Estonia. He joined the Global Property Guide in September 2018. 

He is particularly interested in reports involving research and analysis.  

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Kateryna Shubina

Kateryna Shubina is the Global Property Guide's property researcher who works together with the Global Property Guide's analytics team. Kateryna joined the Global Property Guide in August, 2022. 

She is particularly interested in market research and marketing analysis in the property domain. She has Two Master's Degree in Applied Economics from the National Technical University of Ukraine and University of Alicante (Spain).

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Economics Team

The Global Property Guide's economics team was formed by our former chief economist Prince Cruz, now a staffer with the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) and author of ADB working papers. Prince Cruz created the Global Property Guide training module.

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Matthew Montagu-Pollock

Matthew Montagu-Pollock, the site's founder, has an MA from Oxford University in Politics Philosophy and Economics (PPE), and an MA from the University of Lancaster, and studied for an M.Phil at the London School of Economics, while teaching economics in London at Kilburn Polytechnic. 

Matthew worked for 18 years as a journalist, before setting up the Global Property Guide. 

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Kenneth Kumar

Kenneth Kumar became a part of the Global Property Guide team in 2017. His primary role involves ensuring the functionality and currency of all our graphs and price trends.

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