Have Condo or House Pasalo ring a bell to your ears?
It has been a recent phenomenon for investors in the past year since we went to a standstill a year ago, those initial investor who wish to immediately divest their real estate properties particularly residential condominiums, townhouses and homes in National Capital Region (Metro Manila) and elsewhere in the Philippines. In this topic, we will focus more on residential condominium which played a significant number of cases for assume balance. A condo unit's assumption of balance (known as Condo Pasalo) from banks or other financial institutions where unit owners are currently struggling to keep up their payments of this supposed income producing investments as they became white elephants when the pandemic hit the country. The real estate sector almost near rock bottom where the residential condominium segments were the hardest hit at - 15% drop with residential leasing for condo significantly drop because of many factors but there were definite increase in sales on residential properties outside of NCR and the townhouses in the city.