Apartments.ph magazine
New practical guidance on renting, buying, selling, locations, apartment living and property ownership in the Philippines.
Pag-IBIG MP2 and Philippine property solve different financial problems. MP2 is a five-year savings program with Board-declared variable dividends and relatively low operating burden.…
Turnover day is, legally speaking, the single most consequential moment in the entire ownership process after the sale itself — it’s when certain warranty…
A virtual viewing is only as good as how deliberately it’s run — a passive video call where someone pans a phone camera around…
This decision gets framed online as a simple binary — city for investment, province for the heart — but the honest answer depends on…
The most dangerous OFW property scams usually exploit distance, urgency and delegated trust. The safest response is not to memorize scam stories but to…
Buying a retirement property while you’re still working abroad is a fundamentally different exercise from buying a home you’ll move into immediately — you’re…
Saving for a house down payment is really a series of dozens of individual remittance decisions compounding over months or years — and small,…
OFWs who earn rental income from Philippine property can still have Philippine tax obligations even while working abroad. A nonresident citizen is generally taxed…
Furnishing a unit you can’t physically walk through before, during, or immediately after the work is done requires replacing something you’d normally do with…
The condotel pitch is seductive precisely because it’s built for people exactly like you: buy a hotel-style unit, let a professional operator run it…