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

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

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, 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,

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

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),

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

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

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

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