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Ortigas & Company’s New Condo Towers Are Earthquake Resistant
Manila, Philippines—Nearly 85-year-old real estate company Ortigas & Company, whose prime projects include the redevelopment of the Greenhills Shopping Complex in Quezon City and Capital Commons in Pasig City, has brought in structural engineers and geological engineers from the United States, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, and Langan Treadwell Rollo, respectively, and
PBB Grand Winners Jimboy, Miho Win House and Lot
Manila, Philippines—On the 12th season finale of ABS-CBN’s “Pinoy Big Brother” (PBB), a reality game show franchise originating from the Netherlands, Hendrix “Jimboy” Martin, 17-year-old rapper from Nueva Vizcaya, and Miho Nishida, 22-year-old single mom from Tokyo, Japan, won P1 million, an Asian tour package, and a house and lot
Robinsons Land to Expand in China
Manila, Philippines—In a disclosure to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, October 27, Robinsons Land Corporation, one of the Philippines’ leading real estate developers, revealed that, through an offshore subsidiary, it has acquired the land use right to an approximately 8.5-hectare property in Chengdu, Southwest China. The property will
Manila Police Arrests Three Suspects Who Faked Land Titles
Manila, Philippines—“Check the authenticity of land titles by securing a certified true copy before any transaction,” Chief Inspector Rosalino Ibay Jr., chief of the Manila Police District-Intelligence and Operations Unit (MPD-DPIOU), told at least five scam victims of suspects Celesta Frogosa, 33; Josefina Lada, 59; and Ma Leonisa Quiambao, 27,
First SM Mall in Caloocan City Opens Today, Oct. 23
Manila, Philippines—SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SM Prime) opens today SM Center Sangandaan, its first mall in Caloocan City. The new mall, located along the intersection of Samson Road and A. Mabini Street, boasts a gross floor area of 38,622 square meters. It is SM Prime’s 55th mall in the Philippines
Nearly 30,000 Low-Cost Houses On Sale at 10th Housing Fair
Manila, Philippines—The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), together with housing-related government agencies such as Pag-IBIG Fund, Home Guaranty Corporation (HGC), Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB), National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC), National Housing Authority (NHA), and Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP),
AlDub Fans To Fill Up World’s Largest Indoor Arena on Oct. 24
Manila, Philippines—AlDub (short for Alden Richards and Maine “Yaya Dub” Mendoza) love team fans, born out of GMA Network’s long-running TV show “Eat Bulaga’s” phenomenal “Juan For All, All for Juan: Kalye Serye” segment, are poised to fill up the 55,000-seat indoor arena, Philippine Arena, this Saturday, October 24, for
By 2030, Asia Will Consume 45% of World Energy – Panasonic
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—By 2030, Asia, whose fastest growing Southeast Asian countries include Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, will consume 45 percent of world energy contributed largely by buildings. That’s according to Panasonic Solutions Asia Pacific, which recently held a property developers’ forum attended by nearly 100 leading real estate professionals
Hotel InterCon To Close Doors By Yearend
Manila, Philippines—46-year-old hotel, Intercontinental Manila, which is located at the threshold of Ayala Center, is closing its doors permanently when the management contract between Ayala Land Hotels & Resorts Corp. (AHRC) subsidiary and InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) ends on December 31, 2015. Intercontinental Manila’s impending closure gives way to Ayala
DMCI Homes Says Tall Buildings Used to Surround Rizal Park
Manila, Philippines—In a 115-page memorandum to the Supreme Court dated September 29, DMCI Homes Inc., the developer of the controversial Torre de Manila condominium project, whose still unfinished building façade has been perceived by The Order of the Knights of Rizal to be disrupting the sightline of the Rizal monument in