Finally here’s a copy of BPI’s Buena Mano Super Value Green Tag listing of foreclosed properties for sale, for Metro Manila, Q1-2009. This listing also includes Buena Mano Prime properties which are priced above 10 million pesos. Super Value properties are those priced below 10 million Pesos. BPI provides these foreclosure listings free for all [...]

As promised, I shall be sharing in this post how I calculate the Return-On-Investment or ROI that I could get for a property. To better illustrate the computation, we will use an actual example which I earlier introduced in Pre-auction bids – Another lesson learned. For this example, I shall be using the buy-and-hold strategy [...]

I have here a copy of the BPI’s Buena Mano Super Value Yellow Tag listing of foreclosed properties for sale, which includes properties from Metro Manila. This listing also includes Buena Mano Prime properties which are priced above 10 million pesos. Super Value properties are those priced below 10 million Pesos. BPI provides these foreclosure [...]

I attended Unionbank’s public auction of foreclosed properties yesterday and I would like to share some highlights of the event.
I arrived early and was waiting for the auction to proceed when I was pleasantly surprised to see familiar faces – fellow real estate investors – who started to arrive. It’s really nice to be around [...]

With thousands of foreclosed properties for sale in the Metro Manila area alone, I found it overwhelming to choose which properties to purchase as real estate investments. To get around this, what I initially did was to identify particular areas that I am familiar with so I can focus only on them. The areas I [...]

I got a copy of BPI’s Buena Mano Super Value Red Tag listing of properties for sale last Friday when I saw a BPI branch in the Atrium in Makati, after I paid the monthly amortization of my Pag-Ibig home mortgage loan. This bank foreclosed property listing is for Metro Manila.

In my last post, I mentioned that I shall be posting each and every real estate foreclosure listing that I would get my hands on onto this blog. As promised I am sharing this listing of prime properties from Bank of Commerce which was in the January 11, 2009 issue of Manila Bulletin. The ad [...]

I just got reprimanded by my wife for not posting this listing sooner. I rarely look at the real estate foreclosure listings from Philtrust Bank as my mind has been conditioned by a former mentor that their properties are often priced at market value, leaving very little room for investors to get good returns. If [...]

Bahay Financial Services or BFS currently has a vast inventory of pre-owned or foreclosed properties for sale that includes investment/budget homes and lots. Their current listing includes properties in attractive locations in the National Capital Region (NCR), CALABARZON, Visayas, and Mindanao. I have checked the listing and I noted that it includes more than 3,000 [...]

I just want to share this real estate foreclosure listing classified ad of BPI Buenamano foreclosed properties for sale which was posted in the January 4, 2009 issue of Manila Bulletin. I already checked their online e-Buena Mano database at http://www.e-buenamano.com to compare but I could not find any of the properties which I randomly [...]

In part 2 of this series, I had asked if there was anything an investor can do to affect the market value or returns of his or her stocks or real estate investments. I’ll do my best to answer this in this third and last part of this series.

House not keen on extending rent control law – solon
By EDMER F. PANESA
The country’s rent control law expired last December 31 and there’s little chance of it being extended.
And should this happen, this could be bad news for tenants of apartments, boarding houses and dormitories as the increase in rental rates might be much higher [...]