Technical errors in land titles: detection & correction

A technically flawed title can create serious problems – cancelation by the courts, vulnerability to attack by land grabbers, property that cannot be located, overlaps with other titles, erroneously erecting structures on neighboring properties, rejection of collateral by banks, etc.

Anatomy of Fake Land Titles (Part 1)

When buying raw or undeveloped or underdeveloped land, the buyer should analyze the CONTENTS – not just the form – of ORIGINALS of essential documents for regularity and consistency with each other. Inconsistencies should be cause for suspicion.

The Government-Led Plunder of the Marikina Watershed

For over a century, the government itself – instead of zealously protecting the Marikina Watershed – has actively paved the way for its gradual demise. The recently maligned mining agreements allegedly allowing quarry operations within its boundaries are but recent examples of this long-standing apathy. Successive governmental acts in the past decades considerably diminished the […]