Gats has been helping his parents rent out their condo in Fort Bonifacio but since renters are hard to find of late he thought of using the net as a means to advertise. He chanced upon a site promoting Denver apartments and was fascinated by the amount of information it gave him. He’d consider replicating [...]
Real Estate Developers are still “if-fy” when it comes to the future of the industry after 2010. Of course its all due to the changing of the guard (the administration) but its also the current market condition suffered by the US which eventually trickles down to the Philippines. Bank and mortgage lenders are [...]
The Makati Skyline is once again set to be changed in the coming years as the new wave of residential buildings are about to be marketed within the coming months. I heard from my husband that a couple of branded hotel operators are establishing new buildings in Makati (and Ft Bonifacio) and are even [...]
Gats works in the real estate industry and sometimes he brings me along when he goes looking into the different condos in Makati and Fort Bonifacio. Just three (3) years ago when we brought our own condo there weren’t that much “options” to choose from – just a basic unit and an interior [...]
We’ve been paying amortization (mortgage) for our condo for the past three years now and we can honestly say that its not so harsh on our wallets as we initially imagine it would. Three years ago, rates were a high 12%. Now its somewhere between 7% to 8% — there are lower [...]
Of late the term resort has been loosely used, especially among local development here in the Philippines. My husband pointed out a certain development in the US which is a “true” resort in the sense that it is actually a getaway place within large planned area. The place is called“Hilton Head rental” and [...]
Good thing that we’re really not feeling the real estate crash in the US. Just imagine loosing the roof over our head ( though we won’t be as worried because we have our family, especially our parents, to count on during such times). The latest statistics show that 2.9 million homes have been [...]
Coming from a trip to Tagaytay, we recently passed by a certain development in Dasmarinas Cavite offering (would you believe?) American-inspired homes. It seems that the days of seeing Mediterranean-inspired homes have come and gone. If you’ve seen episodes of Smallville (you know, the younger, pre-Uberman Clark Kent series), the houses in this [...]
River-side development? Where? Here in the Philippines?! Not really something we hear about everyday. It could happen. One day. When we’ve cleaned enough of our active rivers to make it all beautiful for development. See, in other countries, river-side developments are really prime locations, which is why there are premiums for locations [...]
We went to see a development in Dasmarinas, Cavite recently, just out of curiousity. We got toured to around three model houses, which I liked so much that it got me thinking of our next home investment. We really want to settle into a house and lot unit within the next three years. [...]
