Why did property prices in Metro Manila go up so much?

How did land prices in Ayala Alabang Village move as the village filled up? We mapped every lot using satellite images from 2010 to 2025. 🟢 Green = empty lot ⚪ Grey = house 2010: ~93% built · 324 empty lots · ₱37k/sqm 2015: ~95% built · 245 empty lots · ₱65k/sqm 2020: ~95% built · 224 empty lots · ₱120k/sqm 2025: ~95.5% built · 202 empty lots · ₱237k/sqm Along the way: the Skyway reached Alabang (2011), MCX opened (2015), the pandemic hit (2020), and the Skyway extension ope

Do stocks and real estate move together? 📈🏡 We plotted the PSEi against Forbes Park land prices (₱/sqm) from 1980 to today, with each president’s term shaded. What the data suggests: ✅ Over 5-year periods, the two moved in the same direction about 7 times out of 10. ✅ In the big confidence shocks (the 1984 debt crisis, the 1997 Asian crisis, 2008), both fell. ⚠️ Year to year, it’s close to a coin flip. Stock prices react daily, while land prices barely move in an ordinary b

When did Metro Manila land prices really start to soar? Not in the 70s. Not in the 90s either. To track this, we used two villages. Forbes Park is the benchmark for the most expensive land in Metro Manila. Ayala Alabang Village, developed by the same developer, is a good proxy for what happens when an "up and coming" area matures. In 1972, a square meter of lot in Forbes Park was worth around P200. By 2000 it had climbed to about P45,000. Big jump, sure. But then it barely mo

We reviewed where our RE inquiries came from over the past few years. For a long time, the usual property platforms were the main battlefield: Lamudi, Dot Property, Carousell, plus other sources such as referrals, group chats, the RE/MAX Capital network, and tarpaulins. But the picture has changed. In 2025, we started spending more seriously on Meta Ads — mainly Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook Marketplace. By 1H2026, Meta had become our biggest source of inquiries by a wide

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