By Hernani De Leon BusinessWorld Online November 16, 2010 DAVAO CITY — Feedback from regions in Mindanao indicates a bullish sentiment in past months. New shops and offices are opening and property developers are aggressive in marketing campaigns. These are positive signs after a slight economic slowdown that started in 2008 and a power crisis [...]

Malaya BY RUELLE ALBERT CASTRO November 11, 2010 FROM buzzword to a quide word, eco-living standards in the Philippines just got a boost from property market stakeholders. This means that local developers now has a criteria to match the soundness of their individual green projects as the Philippines establishes its own accreditation standard for ecologically-sound [...]

Malaya November 12, 2010 Housing czar Vice President Jejomar Binay is drawing up measures toward addressing the housing backlog that now stands at 3.7 million units. Binay, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), said interest rates for housing loans, for example, could still be lowered from the current 6 percent for [...]

Sun.star Davao Henrylito D. Tacio November 08, 2010 November 08, 2010″THE global warming is very simple,” said Dr. Robert Watson, chair of the Nobel-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “We are increasing emissions of greenhouse gases and thus their concentrations in the atmosphere are going up.” Greenhouse gases produce the greenhouse effect, [...]

BusinessWeek Mindanao By RUEL V. PELONE November 08, 2010 IN order to attract big businesses and customers in progressive areas outside Metro Manila, Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) is now aggressively expanding its development planning for fully-integrated and sustainable mixed-use communities in the Visayas and Mindanao (Vis-Min) region, focusing on growth center cities for long-term value [...]