Showing posts with label Rent Control Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rent Control Law. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2020

INSIDE REAL ESTATE: On Buying Your First Home


"Have you dreamed of acquiring your very own home? Have you imagined, seating on your porch, sipping your morning coffee and reading your newspaper. Seeing your neighbors in the street mowing their lawns or cleaning the front yard? Or just getting ready for morning rush of going to work."

 Buying your first real estate residential property requires tedious and multiprocessing tasks of properly planning and making wise but crucial decisions. Buying a house doesn’t involve you as a breadwinner but involves your wife as a co-maker and a borrower and the whole family as beneficiary in securing your very own home and in the right neighborhood where you can live and flourish. 

Monday, April 20, 2020

Gentrification: When Old Neighborhood is Redeveloped Into A New Neighborhood

Photo by Marfil Graganza Aquino from Pexels

With the influx of migrant workers from mainland China working with locally based Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGOs) companies located in Metro Manila and elsewhere in the major cities of the Philippines. A number of locals are being displaced and being uprooted out of their from their homes and old community where they have grown or lived over the years to accommodate new developments in place with old neighborhoods being torn down and redeveloped into new posh neighborhoods complete with business / commercial establishments and others catering only to those that can afford the luxury and lifestyle of the modern high society.

What is Gentrification?

Gentrification is a process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. This is a common and controversial topic nowadays with is happening around communities in Metro Manila. Politics, lack of urban planning and graft & corruption in recent times stirred problems in the NCR. In the world alone, housing rents have risen tremendously at three folds. An example of this is Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the city of London in United Kingdom with prices skyrocketing because of the tourism and international investors coming from the Far East. Local residents of London or Amsterdam are moving out of these cities and living a few kilometers away from suburban areas close to the capital or another city with lesser cost of living but accessible to their work / employment and businesses.


Monday, October 7, 2019

Understanding the Rent Control Law of 2009


For would be landlords or those who are interested in buying a property as investment such as residential apartments or residential condominiums to be used for the purpose of renting or leasing it to would be renter / lessee. 

In general, the Philippine housing rentals are covered by the Rent Control Act of 2009, a law intended to protect millions of Filipinos renting houses. The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) is the government agency in charge of overseeing the implementation of the Rent Control Act, also known as Republic Act 9653 or “An Act Establishing Reforms in the Regulation of Rent of Certain Residential Units, Providing the Mechanisms Therefore and For Other Purposes.”

R.A. 9653 was approved in 2009 and its provisions have been recently extended by HUDCC for a period of three years, from January 1, 2018, until December 31, 2020.

The subject property is covered by the salient features of this law wherein houses for rent are covered because of its residential and commercial purpose.