
Our Team
Each haus & haus agent lives and breathes our values and practices our culture each and every day. We hand select the best of the best – those rare diamonds that will go the extra mile for our clients.
Ian Davidson
Head of Property Management
Ian is the Head of Property Management at haus & haus. He takes a strategic role in leading the team through having over 12 years of international and domestic experience managing large portfolios of properties in the UK and UAE. Moving to Dubai from the UK, Ian successfully built the large portfolio of managed properties whilst adapting to the challenging market, and fundamentally understanding the individual needs of his landlords – through this understanding he helps them achieve the best yields and returns on their property portfolio. He has extensive experience of liaising with landlords, tenants, tradespeople as well as letting negotiations. As a highly skilled Property Manager and adviser, he has the ability to reduce owner’s costs by providing bespoke packages for his clients.
Grant Sommerville
Palm Jumeirah Specialist
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland – Grant comes from a property background working for 5 years within the construction industry whilst working alongside his family’s estate agency and law firm. Grant’s passion for property lead him to the Dubai property market at the beginning of 2015 where the luxury villas and apartments combined with all year sunshine was too much to turn down. He worked his way through the ranks before becoming a senior sales broker at a large Dubai real estate agency before making the move to haus & haus in 2017. In his time in Dubai, Grant has won several awards including the ‘best of the best agent’ in 2016 at his previous company and highest sales broker of the month 4 times in 2017. Grants extensive knowledge of the Palm Jumeirah and attention to detail with his clients has led to great success and many happy customers.
Matthew Solomon
Palm Jumeirah Specialist
Having spent 16 years forging a successful in career in interiors based in the UK, Matthew made the decision to move to Dubai and focus his attention on real estate. During those 16 years, Matthew amassed a wealth of experience working all over the world with a wide spectrum clients of many nationalities. Having ran an office in Moscow, and having vast trading experience across Europe, Scandinavia, North America and the Far East, he has been able to bring his experience, not only to haus & haus, but the Dubai real estate market in general. Specializing in the Palm Jumeirah region, please do not hesitate to get in contact with Matthew for friendly and informed advise.
Charlie Bannan
Leasing Director
haus & haus’ Leasing Director Charlie is originally from Kent in the UK. He relocated to Dubai in June 2016 starting his career as a leasing consultant; which during the 1st year he worked his way through the ranks to become a senior broker before moving into the sales side of the business. Given his previous work experience of financial sales in Canary Wharf – where he started as a sales broker, and eventually moving into senior management; Charlie brings the many transferable skills and talent to the Leasing Director role. He maintains that making the customer experience paramount, and the individual earnings within the team are the key to haus & haus success.
Ivana Nedic
Marina & JLT Specialist
Ivana originates from Serbia where she graduated with a law degree from the University of Belgrade and had senior positions working within consultancy and banking over an eight year period. She brought her strong interpersonal skills when she moved to Dubai in 2012 to forge a career in Real Estate. Ivana’s strengths are her honesty, pro – active attitude and wealth of experience within the Jumeirah Lake Towers and Dubai Marina locations. She is fluent in both English and Russian and has used this to secure many properties for both investors and end – users.
Olga Pikina
Jumeirah Golf Estates Specialist
Olga moved to Dubai in 2012 and initially worked in guest relations at a worldwide hotel chain. Her ability to converse in different languages, honed by gaining a Master degree in translation helped her transition into property and dealing with a range of nationalities. She has extensive experience of Jumeirah Golf Estates in both leasing and sales and this knowledge will put you at ease through the transaction process. Olga loves to travel and meeting new people – her favorite places so far have been the USA, Italy and Sri Lanka. She is also bi-lingual speaking Russian, Ukrainian and English and can definitely help you, no matter what your property needs.
Peter Blenman
Victory Heights/Green Community Specialist
Having worked in the London real estate industry for over 7 years, Peter has gained an extensive amount of sales and lettings experience. His journey started working as a dual negotiator for a local estate agent in the south east of London. He then moved into a senior lettings role for an international real estate company based in the financial hub of London, Canary Wharf. He enjoyed 3 years at this agent before being recruited for one of London’s biggest and well respected agents as a sales negotiator. Whilst working in one of their top offices Peter and his team were rewarded with a number of prizes and trips around the World, which was testament to his commitment to the job and hard work. In 2016, Peter then took on the challenge of relocating to Dubai to work in the ever growing competitive property market. Peter specializes in the Green Community & Victory Heights areas, using his wealth of knowledge, experience and honest approach to the job to provide clients with an easy transition whether they are looking for a property to rent or a landlord seeking a new tenant.
Calvin Smith
Arabian Ranches Specialist
Originally from Edinburgh, Scotland; Calvin has over 5 years' experience in the property market. His expertise grew through project managing property refurbishments in his home town. Calvin then moved to a lettings negotiator role for one of Edinburgh’s biggest letting agents. It is in this role Calvin really found his passion for property and thrived in a competitive sales and lettings environment. In 2014, Calvin decided to pursue his passion to live and work in the UAE amongst Dubai’s ever growing property market. This is where he gained an extensive knowledge of the Arabian Ranches community and through an impeccable customer service record, has enjoyed a lot of repeat business. Outside of work, Calvin has a very active lifestyle, regularly enjoying sports such as golf and football.