Residences Manila: Your Creative Guide to Better Home Buying and Selling (photo courtesy of deasypenner.com)
Residences Manila is getting more creative in helping Philippine home buyers and sellers close that property deal.
Thanks to our customers who have shared with us their personal journeys in their real estate dealings, Residences Manila has purposefully evolved into a Philippine Real Estate Guide to help our readers become better at the art of home buying and selling.
Better Homes, Better Dispositions
In entering the home search or disposal process, the gauge for success is not only in closing the transaction on mutually beneficial terms. It’s to close it with peace and happiness. Your success, attained this way, would mean that you’ve helped another person move on in same fashion to recognize their own dreams for a better home.
Practical Approaches, Fresh Views
On the practical aspect, Philippine sellers are increasingly in need of fresh, smart ways to dispose of properties.
The Internet’s no longer that ‘new’; but Internet home sellers need new ways to find the right buyers online or off. More importantly, they need to get the right inquiries, increase viewings with more qualified buyers, and find the right people to help them sell. More than ever, they also must be ready to try new things to make their properties more marketable–more than just doing a price reduction or sell short.
Buyers, on the other hand, also need to work at being a qualified prospect. If you find a home that’s a dream deal, remember there are 10 of you looking at it every day. If you’re not prepared with your financials, are unclear about your goals, or are not prepared to do what it takes to get a hot property in record time, then the first guy who is takes the prize home (pun not intended)!
Thanks to lack of time, better Internet connections and social networking technologies, a number of the customers I’ve encountered are comfortable with searching thru the Net and other sources for home listings in seconds. But they’re also searching online now for an updated, relevant online guide on how to buy, not just long lists of Philippine homes for sale.
So we’ll talk about the selling and buying process: from visioning all the way to implementation.
We’ll post about doing neighborhood searches, home evaluation, finding and evaluating realtors and agents, home inspection, financing, negotiations, documentation and legal issues, home listing and promotions, home improvement and staging. And yes, we’ll give you sources for home listings as well.
We’ll evaluate the Internet treasure trove of home buying/selling, and serve it to you in this single site. We’ll also bring you stories of friends and customers who’ve had success in closing their dream home deal.
Helping Others Make a Better Residence in Manila
After the home search, a good number continuously search for tips on moving houses; renovating, repairing, or maintaining their homes; orienting themselves with landmarks, schools and recreational facilities within the neighborhood, and transportation, building community and forming new ties.
To succeed in home buying or selling in Manila, you must have both focus and perspective (photo courtesy of deasypenner.com)
We encourage you to reinvent your residence after you’ve bought it. As we know that a house is a project that never ends, there’s always something to fix once you’ve gotten it–yes, even if it’s brand new. So send us your story of how you succeeded with your own home projects!
We’ll talk more about neighborhoods and community. And as a way of paying it forward by helping other home buyers and sellers, we encourage you to share your account of your own home search, home selling, moving and settling-into your own neighborhoods. Residences Manila will also include insights and information on ‘green homes’. Building, buying or maintaining a house that’s kind to Mother Earth will literally help keep the roofs over our heads for generations to come.
Writing with You in Mind
The profile of Residences Manila‘s clients are those who are globally exposed, well-travelled, have worked abroad or are retiring here after living abroad for more than half their life, and have a multi-cultural perspective. From young, successful executives to well-placed businessmen; head honchos of multinational companies, brilliant entrepreneurs, empty nesters and ‘single blessed’ individuals reaping the rewards of their hard-earned money. You may be looking for your first home, selling it, or looking for another one.
Whether you’re Filipino or a foreigner who has decided to find and keep a Philippine address, make Residences Manila your site for information and home reinvention.
We look forward to helping you find your better residence in Manila.
Founder and Editor
Residences Manila
http://www.residencesmanila.com
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Philippine Realtor, Real Estate Blogger, IT Education for Real Estate Marketing Advocate, Seminar Speaker for Information & Communications Technology in Real Estate 
