Philippine Real Estate and Construction

Real estate projects that have been issued cease and desist order by the HLURB

Posted by Jun on April 21st, 2011

The Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) is a national government agency tasked as the planning, regulatory and quasi-judicial body for land use development and real estate and housing regulation.

Among its various functions, the most important is its mandate to implement Presidential Decree (PD) 957 also known as the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers’ Protective Decree (Note: the link is in PDF format and the law itself is too long and complicated; you are best advised to read it if you have lots of free time). Read the rest of this entry »

A beauty queen with an even more beautiful heart

Posted by Jun on December 3rd, 2010

In the spirit of this coming Holiday Season, I would like to tell you about a very special lady; the likes of whom make this season more worth celebrating. She’s so beautiful that she has two beauty titles: Ms. Young Philippines 1981 and Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1985.

Although she already feels “jurassic,” (her words, not mine: ), she may be the most beautiful woman you could ever lay your eyes on. She’s Joyce Burton-Titular. Read the rest of this entry »

Trip to Georgia Club in Sta. Rosa, Laguna

Posted by Jun on November 25th, 2010

Provide clean and safe drinking water: a challenge to real estate developers

Posted by Jun on November 3rd, 2010

Update on my condominium directory as of November 18, Thursday, 10:30 pm: QUEZON CITY directory is now online.
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Today, going green or being eco-friendly is no longer a matter of choice, it’s a matter of necessity. Nature’s growing unpredictability has made many individuals and companies realize that if we are to sustain our society for generations to come, we must treat nature and earth’s resources with utmost respect.

Fortunately, many real estate developers have caught on and have seen the importance of building projects that are sustainable. Thus, their emphasis on green building designs and construction.

In spite of these, though, there is one important environmental issue that no local developer has yet to address. Read the rest of this entry »

My condominium directory is still under construction

Posted by Jun on October 25th, 2010

It’s been a while since my last blog. I’ve realized that to be really useful, a blog should feature not just the webmaster’s opinions; it should provide useful resources, which I must admit, this website is very much lacking.

What started as a mere curiosity to list down the many condominiums that I see being advertised everyday in the newspapers turned into a full-blown project – a directory of condominium projects all over Metro Manila. Read the rest of this entry »

An indispensable tool for real estate buyers and sellers

Posted by Jun on October 17th, 2010

The broker/agent of the future has to be smart and very capable of using technology… You have to keep up with your clients who are extremely savvy. They have more information now than they did in the past. And it’s harder for a broker/agent to be successful when their clients are smarter than they are.

by Pam Liebman, CEO, Corcoran Group

That future is now. Read the rest of this entry »

The Condominium Boom in Metro Manila

Posted by Jun on September 30th, 2010

What started as a casual research to list down the condominiums in various stages of completion in Metro Manila, turned into a project that will become an added feature of this website.

I’m completing a directory of the many condominiums in Metro Manila like the Products and Services Directory that I currently have. Read the rest of this entry »

Advantages of living in a condominium

Posted by Jun on September 22nd, 2010

In my last post, 6 things to consider before buying a residential condominium unit, I presented several factors that may make one wince at the thought of buying a condominium.

I concluded by saying that just because there are several serious downsides to owning a condominium doesn’t necessarily mean that you shouldn’t buy or live in one. Read the rest of this entry »

6 things to consider before buying a residential condominium unit

Posted by Jun on September 6th, 2010

A condominium project consists of land on which the project stands, the individual dwelling units and the common areas.

In the Philippines, a condominium building is any vertical development, ranging from, say, 5 to 50-stories tall comprising of, say, a hundred to 500 individually-owned units per building wherein the units share walls.

In the United States, condominiums also usually share walls, although, that is not always the case. There, many condominiums resemble what may appear to us here in the Philippines like townhouses, row houses or apartment complexes that may be only 1 to 2 stories tall. The similarity is in the extent of ownership. Read the rest of this entry »

Artex Compound: an erstwhile happy place

Posted by Jun on August 31st, 2010

This post is a complete departure from my other posts wherein I featured mostly upscale real estate developments. This is about people who are in desperate straits but remain optimistic of someday owning their houses. Theirs is a community that has become so blighted, but its people choose to stay and at the same time, hope that things will become better someday.

I didn’t originally intend to blog about this place when I took pictures of it during one of my bike rides a few weeks ago. But when you think about it, this post underscores the overarching importance of achieving one of man’s most basic human needs, no matter how insufficiently that need can be filled. Read the rest of this entry »

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