We visited several housing developments in the South of Metro Manila, between Paranaque and Tagaytay.

I had two goals: first, is to visit the house and neighborhood where I grew up and second, is to look around for places where we want to live.

Villages or subdivisions are the counterpart of the suburbs in the US so to speak. We visited both middle class and upperclass villages. The upper-classy villages

we visited were developed by Ayala Land and Landco. Ayala Land is one of the most reputable developers in the country. You can’t go wrong in your investment with them be it condominium or a lot. Don’t worry I don’t work for them at all. This is just from my observation after having lived in a Condominium developed by Ayala called the Columns and visiting a subdivision called Ayala Westgrove.

They do take care of many details such as security, infrastructure, and quality of life by making sure strict rules are implemented and using modern techniques such as underground power lines. We loved the Ayala Westgrove in Silang, Cavite! It is not cheap for sure but it sure is better than taking a 30 year mortgage for a small rowhouse (100 sqm) worth 250K euros in Holland.

A house and lot here would cost roughly 150K Euros and that will be roughly a 250 sqm FA house on a 400 something sqm lot. Another nice development in that area is the Ponderosa which is more like a hobby farming community.

Anyways, let’s not go overboard with this. We also looked into middle class housing

somewhere in San Pedro Laguna or Cavite area developed by Filinvest.

Ready for occupancy house and lot with 100 sqm FA costs roughly 3 Million Pesos or 45K Euros. We also looked into smaller houses that cost not more than 2 Million Pesos (below 30K Euros).