Location: Batangas, Philippines
Compensation range discussed: $1,000 - $1,200
LinkedIn Profile | email: sanmigueloliverjohn@gmail.com | Phone: +63 961 157 4417
Senior Research Analyst and Licensed Property Specialist with over 5 years of experience in commercial and residential real estate research. He currently acts as the Manila Operations Manager at Arealytics, leading data extraction and lease abstraction for major commercial clients like Green Street and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). His direct exposure to the US market includes supporting Marks Realty Group, where he conducted investment analysis, comparative sales research, and property assessments specifically for the Houston, Texas market. He leverages real estate platforms like Zillow, alongside photo and video editing software, to synthesize complex financial datasets into actionable intelligence and marketing materials. Experienced in supplying the core data (price-per-square-meter) and market prices analysis used for equivalent Valuer Reports. Additionally, he has corporate experience gained at Avida Land Co., managing property listings and commercial lease contracts.
This video from our screening interview provides a look into Oliver's background and experience:
• Direct US Market Support: Accrued 1.5 years of direct B2B and B2C experience managing property operations and investment analysis for the Houston, Texas market.
• Renovation & Investment Analysis: Conducted manual estimations for property renovation costs, specifically targeting residential lots between 1,500 and 1,800 square meters, to secure a minimum 20% profit margin prior to executive approval.
• Deal Closing & Client Acquisition: Actively engaged with prospective clients, presented sales materials, and participated directly in closing negotiations for property portfolios.
• Marketing & Deal Packaging: Translates raw property data into comprehensive marketing highlights. Structures selling points, neighborhood proximities, and property features into targeted collateral, alongside drafting corresponding leasing contracts and renewal agreements.
• Creative Presentation Design: Applies prior background as a Marketing Manager to advise on and develop visual creatives and videos for property listings, ensuring high-quality asset presentation.
• Data Quality Leadership: Oversees cross-functional teams across lease abstraction, property mapping, and sale comparables to ensure absolute data accuracy before commercial real estate information is published for institutional clients.
• Historical Market Research: Specializes in deep-dive historical sale transactions, successfully extracting complex commercial public records dating back to 1990 to provide long-term market intelligence for office, retail, and industrial assets.
• Valuation Data Supply: Supplies highly scrubbed, accurate price-per-square-meter data directly utilized by certified valuers to establish commercial property appraisals and offering materials.
• Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation | Feati University (2013)
• Real Estate & Data Platforms: Zillow MLS, Cloud CMA, ERC, Dye & Durham, Planwa, Plansa, QLD Globe, VIC Plan, Lassi, Vexcel, SAPPA, Spatial, Public Data Records
• Proactive Problem Solving in Data Extraction: Identified a critical gap in tracking historical commercial sales data for the New South Wales market. Independently sourced and integrated public government records dating back to 1990, successfully resolving a major operational bottleneck and significantly expanding the historical market intelligence available to top-tier clients.
• End-to-End Investment Acumen: Demonstrates a highly analytical approach to real estate acquisitions. Evaluates modern rent levels and sale comparables, computes manual renovation costs, and projects profit margins (targeting 20% minimum returns) before pitching acquisitions to executive leadership. • Cross-Functional Blend of Analytical and Creative Skills: Combines over six years of overall real estate analysis with a two-year background as a Marketing Manager. Leverages this unique intersection to transform complex datasets into visually appealing property highlights, offering materials inputs, and client presentations. • Licensed Real Estate Foundation: Began the real estate career as a Licensed Property Specialist for Avida Land Co (a subsidiary of Ayala Land, one of the largest real estate developers in the Philippines), providing a deep foundational understanding of property management, leasing structures, and investment analysis from the ground up.
• Cross-Market Terminology Translation: While highly experienced in commercial real estate data extraction and valuation, he openly acknowledged being initially unfamiliar with specific U.S. terminology like "Offering Memorandum" and "Broker Opinion of Value." Demonstrated adaptability by actively seeking context prior to the conversation and mapping these terms to some Australian equivalents (referring BOVs analysis as "valuer reports"), noting that market valuers rely directly on his scrubbed data to establish accurate price-per-square-meter figures.
• Data-Driven Quality Focus: Identifies data accuracy and verification as a core strength and primary focus. He emphasized a rigorous approach to data scrubbing, stating a strong preference for ensuring public records and sales comparables are strictly accurate before escalating them to research leadership.
• Collaborative Problem-Solving: Demonstrated a proactive and team-oriented approach to resolving operational bottlenecks. He mentioned that when encountering unclear processes or data inconsistencies, he conducts independent research and engages in constructive debates with the head of research to refine workflows. He actively attributes process enhancements to cross-functional teamwork rather than individual effort.
• Notice Period Flexibility and Motivation: Currently holds a standard 30-day notice period with his employer. However, he expressed a strong willingness to compress this to 15 days if an urgent start is required. He is highly motivated by the compensation package and indicated readiness to absorb a one-month salary forfeiture penalty to accommodate a faster transition.
• NDA Constraints: Due to a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement, he is limited in sharing specific details regarding the U.S. clients and the exact property portfolios he supported in the Houston, Texas market.
