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A Home for Every Filipino

Industry icons support CREBA’s housing vision

As of this writing, the more than 400 delegates who converged in Baguio City from October 12-15, 2016 to take part in CREBA’s 25th annual national convention must be back in their project sites and work places, sleeves rolled up, raring to seize countless opportunities in today’s real estate market and waiting with great anticipation […]

Educate, Innovate, Celebrate

One of the brightest ideas real estate developers and practitioners can have before the year comes to a close is taking part in the much-anticipated 2016 Realtors® Conference and Expo. Slated from November 4 up to 7, 2016 at sunny Orlando, Florida, this event organized by the National Association of Realtors ® or NAR is […]

A Home for Every Filipino: Turning Dreams into Reality

The annual CREBA national convention is held in the month of October, declared by government as the “National Housing Month.” It serves as CREBA’s major year-end activity designed to foster fellowship and networking among members, generate business interaction among CREBAns and their business counterparts, as well as discuss workable measures to address the myriad housing […]

Grow your local business

Last February, CREBA hosted this year’s first International Realtor® Membership or IRM Forum nationwide to bring the unique Realtor advantage to Filipino property professionals in Metro Manila, Cagayan de Oro and Cebu.  With the theme, “Grow your Local Business,” the four-day tour encouraged IRM’s, who are who are affiliated with the Chicago-based National Association of […]

Intensifying effort to solve Philippine housing problems

This year, CREBA is intensifying its pursuit of solving the 5.5-million national housing backlog, which reportedly threatens to balloon to 6.5 million units by 2030 if supply and access fail to cope with the consistent rise in demand.  Topping CREBA’s priorities is its advocacy and vision of “A Home for every Filipino.” To achieve this, […]

Socialized housing: better pricing and loan terms combined

CREBA supported the passage of Republic Act 10884 or the amended balanced housing act in 2016 to make current housing laws work by ridding the Urban Development and Housing Act (Republic Act 7279 of 1992) of stumbling blocks to socialized housing production. Under R.A. 10884, the requirement for subdivision developers to develop socialized housing equivalent […]