Category: REAL ESTATE

Where to Invest in Cebu Real Estate?

Cebu has long been a top destination for real estate investment in the Philippines. With a robust economy, a growing population, improved infrastructure, and rising demand for specialized properties, it continues to attract both local and international investors. But where exactly should you invest today? Here are the three most promising sectors in Cebu real estate:

1. Invest in Leisure-Oriented Developments

Leisure-oriented real estate is currently the number one product in the Philippine property market, and Cebu is no exception. These developments include condo-hotels, beach resorts, mountain view subdivisions, retirement villages, wellness estates, and eco-tourism enclaves.

What makes them so attractive? The shift in lifestyle preferences after the pandemic has fueled demand for spaces that blend relaxation, wellness, and work-from-anywhere setups. Cebu’s world-class beaches, cool highlands, and strong tourism brand make it the perfect location for this kind of development.

🟢 Why invest here? Cebu is becoming a prime destination for domestic and foreign tourists, retirees, and digital nomads. Leisure properties promise strong returns via rental income, capital appreciation, and even joint ventures with hospitality operators.

📌 Read more: Why Leisure-Oriented Developments Are the New Gold in Philippine Real Estate (https://www.google.com/…/dissecting-the…/%3famp)

Cebu is still top tourist destination in the country.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/…/cebu-welcomed-over…

2. Invest in Commercial Real Estate in Growth Towns

The next big opportunity lies in commercial properties for lease, especially in emerging towns outside Metro Cebu. We’re talking about areas like Bogo City, Oslob, Balamban, Moalboal, and Daanbantayan, towns with growing populations and rising consumer demand.

Think commercial strips, lots for banks, drive-thru fast food outlets, warehousing, and rental spaces for small enterprises. With the continued widening of highways and the proposed new infrastructure projects, these towns are now closer than ever to the city center, but come at a fraction of the cost.

🟢 Why invest here? Commercial real estate in provincial growth centers generates steady monthly income and benefits from Cebu’s decentralization — where people live, work, and spend outside the metro.

3. Invest in Columbariums and Memorial Real Estate

Yes, columbariums are a legitimate and increasingly necessary form of real estate investment, especially in Cebu City, where there’s a growing cemetery space crisis. With the high cost and scarcity of traditional burial plots, more families are turning to cremation, and this trend is pushing demand for urban memorial parks, columbarium vaults, and chapel complexes.

Take for example True Vine Garden Columbary in Cebu City, which offers a peaceful and dignified space for remembering loved ones, while also providing a high-value investment opportunity for developers and landowners.

🟢 Why invest here? It’s a niche but growing market. Unlike most forms of real estate, columbarium spaces are non-cyclical, there’s always demand, and they require minimal upkeep while offering recurring income through vault sales and maintenance fees.

Cebu’s real estate landscape is evolving. It’s no longer just about condos in the city or residential subdivisions. Investors who are willing to look at leisure properties, commercial hubs in rising towns, and memorial real estate stand to benefit from new demand trends.

Whether you’re a developer, a broker, or a small investor, the key is to invest where the growth is going, not where it has already peaked.

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Primary Homes Tops Off Tower B In Mactan Project

Premier developer Primary Homes Inc. topped off the second tower of its P 2 billion resort condominium Royal OceanCrest Mactan. The topping-off was marked through the ceremonial signing and lifting of the final beam at the project site in Sudtunggan, Barangay Basak in Lapu-lapu City.

The ceremony, held on September 29, 2021, was led by Primary Group of Builders Chairman Engr. William Christopher Liu Jr., PrimaryHomes President Archt. Stephen Charles Liu PrimaryHomes Vice President for Sales and Marketing, Mr. Ramero Espina, together with the heads of PrimaryHomes Project Management Team. They were joined by PrimaryHomes Functional Heads and Primary Structures Corporation representatives.


PrimaryHomes is part of Primary Group of Builders (PGB), a powerhouse conglomerate with an umbrella of trusted companies having 70 years worth of portfolio in the field of construction and property developments.

PrimaryHomes is developing Royal Oceancrest Mactan together with other PGB companies — Triple A category general contractor Primary Structures Corporation, ISO-certified concrete solutions provider Concrete Solutions Inc., and construction innovator ABC LightStrong Building Systems. Each of these Primary Group companies upholds passion and thrust for excellence. The expertise of these companies combined with PrimaryHomes’ solid reputation as the most trusted real estate brand are testament to the quality of Royal Oceancrest Mactan.


With PGB’s diverse solutions integrated to build lasting structures that are delivered on time, PrimaryHomes investors will truly be assured of their investments.
“When the pandemic happened, it was hard on businesses and affected construction activities, but we never slowed down. We are still on target to deliver as scheduled. Our partnership with the other PGB companies and the fully-integrated system that we’ve established with them throughout the years played a very significant role in this,” said PrimaryHomes vice president for sales and marketing Ramero Espina.


Royal Oceancrest Mactan is ideally located in highly urbanized Lapu-lapu City. It’s within short distance to a mall, hospital, beach resorts, export zones, industrial parks, big ticket developments, the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway, and the Mactan Cebu International Airport.


Espina said the development is targeted to clients who want to own or invest in a property in Mactan, one of the most beautiful and frequently visited islands in the Philippines.
The community is designed by PrimaryHomes as a safe and secure haven of wellness and leisure with 60% of the total development dedicated to free and open space, giving residents the opportunity to relax and reconnect, roam and immerse in the beauty of the gardens, a bamboo tunnel, yoga pocket spaces, and other nature features. It also features lifestyle amenities such as compartmentalized pools, gym, clubhouse, grilling stations, and commercial areas.


Espina said construction of Royal Oceancrest Mactan is on full swing and they hope to deliver the units to its owners in early 2022.
Royal Oceancrest Mactan is made up of four mid-rise buildings with a total of 952 residential and commercial units. It offers 2-bedroom and 1-bedroom units with balcony option. The Tower B will feature finished units.
To see the actual and show units, visit the Royal Oceancrest Mactan on-site showroom which is open daily from 9 a.m to 5 p.m.


For more details, visit https://primaryhomes.com/projects/royal-oceancrest-mactan

AN EMPIRE BUILT ON DRIED MANGOES

✅Justin Uy, the Cebuano who conquered the world with sweet dried mangoes, and the business conglomerate he built around it.

✅Profood International (flagship company) products, is now being exported to more than 50 countries worldwide.

✅From mangoes, it ventured to retail development by opening JCentre Mall in 2011.                  J Centre Mall (CTTO)

✅An opportunity in tourism was too lucrative to resist when Imperial Palace Resort in Mactan was offered for sale. Renamed as JPark Island Resort and Waterpark, it is now one of the popular tourist destinations in Cebu.                 Jpark Resort Mactan

✅The company also owns Toyoko Inn, Mandaue, the first Philippine branch of the famous Japanese hotel chain (in partnership with Toyoko Inn Co. Ltd)


✅ Recently it opened the P8 billion JPark Island Resort Panglao, dubbed as the biggest waterpark resort in the country, a bold and ambitious move anchored in Bohol’s tourism potentials.

Jpark Panglao Resort

✅In 2019, its real estate company, Everjust Realty, launched the 40-storey J Tower Residences, beckoning the company’s entry into the condominium industry.                J Tower Residences

This is a great Cebuano success story in the making. So what’s out for more of Justin Uy and his future business endeavors.



Suggested readings:

https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1773833

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-business/2019/06/07/1924367/top-100-cebuano-personalitiesjustin-sy-uy/amp/

BENEDICTO Family, from CEMENT magnate  to REAL ESTATE developer!


Enrison Land Inc, the real estate arm of Enrison Holdings is one of the newest players in the local real estate industry, but even this early, indications are, it is going to be a major player. It’s just a matter of time.

And why not, it is after all spawned by Cebu’s cement magnate, Benedicto family, who owns FilCement Inc. (Mabuhay Brand).

The family also owns Berben Wood Industries, a renowned name in high-end furnitures and BE Resorts in Mactan and Bohol.

BE Resort Mactan (📸 CTTO)

But their biggest advantage going into real estate lies in the substantial landbank they possess in very strategic locations in Metro Cebu.

This company is not just aggressive, it is a quick starter too, with its maiden residential project, BE RESIDENCES Lahug already under construction. It also launched just recently, BALAI in Mactan and another, BE UPTOWN in Juana Osmena coming up next.

This Cebuano company will certainly help transform Cebu’s skyline, no doubt!

With inputs from: Derek Diez

Consolacion On and On and On!

The doorstep to metropolitan Cebu, the Municipality of Consolacion is at the crossroad of the urban and the rural, where the bustling meets the laidback.

Progress seems to have caught Consolacion by surprise as evident in its worsening traffic problem, agonizing northern Cebu bound motorists all the time.

A town on the verge of Cityhood and unstoppable growth, it is home to an SM City and two other malls, industrial and manufacturing complexes and an upcoming international container port.

Consolacion’s proximity to the urban core of Cebu makes it an ideal residential address as well. Local and national developers are scouring its mostly mountainous barangays for any available land to be developed.

Because of this, the town’s population has been increasing tremendously. It has more than doubled in just 15 years from the 63k in 2000 census to more than 133k in 2015.

With this trajectory, it is believed to have already crossed the population threshold of 150k, a vital requirement to become a city.

Consolacion’s growth is unstoppable, but it will have to manage it carefully so as not to hamper also the growth of its northern town neighbors.