The much-awaited Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 9646, known as the “Real Estate Service Act of the Philippines” or RESA Law was finally published last July 24, 2010 in the Philippine Star, and will be effective fifteen days therefrom or on August 8, 2010. Click here for the full text of the [...]

This is the second part of a series on the three types of income one can get through real estate investing. If you missed the first part, please read it before reading this. You can find part one here – How to get portfolio income through real estate investing
Earned income is the type of income [...]

If you missed John Calub’s workshop on real estate selling held last October 24, 2009, you’re in luck! John Calub Training  Incorporated will be having another round of the same workshop this coming January 23, 2010. Saturday, from 8 am to 6 pm. This time however, free entrance to the first 20 registrants will no [...]

I hope that got your attention! As we start 2010, I’m sure a lot of you have a lot of New Year resolutions and plans.  There’s really nothing wrong with that. However, I can’t help but throw the same question to you as I did to myself, when I started to make plans for 2010. [...]

My wife Cherry continues from her recent post by sharing an updated listing of foreclosed properties from Metro Manila which she recently got from Philippine National Bank’s Special Assets Management Group.

You may recall that we posted last November 17, 2009, the list of acquired assets of PNB for Metro Manila, which was updated as of [...]

I’m sure a lot of you out there have been patiently waiting for new listings of foreclosed properties and here is a bunch from Philippine National Bank (PNB). My wife got these foreclosed property listings after she requested for them through e-mail.
Don’t forget to use as reference the “title id number” of the property that [...]

In my previous post: How to compute for the monthly amortization payment without a mortgage calculator,  I showed how I compute for the monthly amortization payment by hand. Tyrone of  Millionaire Acts through his comment asked: “How about if we don’t have access to the amortization factors table? Is there a way to compute [...]

The Philippine National Bank – Special Assets Management Sector (PNB-SAMS) shall be having a property auction on September 17, 2009, Thursday, 2:00 P.M., at the Grand Men Seng Hotel, Magallanes-Alda Streets., Davao City Philippines.
The bank foreclosed properties for auction include properties from Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental, Cotabato, Compostela Valley, and South Cotabato.

This morning, I finished inspecting a number of properties and I must say that my real estate broker was very proactive when she brought along our contractor even without me telling her to do so. It saved all three of us the trouble of scheduling another visit to those properties, not to mention the time, [...]

Republic Act (R.A.) No. 9646, or The Real Estate Service Act of the Philippines which is more commonly referred to as the RESA law has been signed into law by president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last June 29, 2009. As mentioned in this article, it hopes to professionalize and regulate the practice of real estate in the [...]