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Has anyone bought land in the Philippines?

Discussion in 'Money Matters' started by JasonWong, Mar 7, 2018.

  1. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member


    so--under £90k all in at the time.. you would pay a lot more than 90k now just for a plot in southern england
  2. Bootsonground
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    Think we overpaid for a titled lot in Baguio in 1988..Lot was 800.00 per sqr meter..
    Thats what happens when you come over here and have a limited time to survey and purchase..Rush rush rush!
    Apparently,it`s 15K per sqr mtr these days..I suppose we had better go and update the land tax payments!
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  3. Jim
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    Jim Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    I did the same in Dumaguete 2004 I paid 280 per sqm then found out next lot to us they paid 150 sqm. Now they are selling 1,500 per sqm
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  4. Ian martin
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    Ian martin Member

    Every foreigner in the town where I lived had his land stolen by his Filipina girlfriend/wife. 1 guy had a huge farm, she stole all of it.
    How stupid can you be to buy a major thing like land/house in someone else's name. They are very clever females and only want you for your wallet, never forget that, they want to distribute your cash to their grasping families.
    You can only trust them after many years renting. If you buy them land/house you have made yourself redundant. They will try to get rid of you.
    Its the value of the peso that is decreasing NOT the house price going up really!
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  5. Bootsonground
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    Now I feel really dumb.. We have bought quite a bit of land over the last 25 odd years here..ALL in her name of course.
    Should I convince her to sell it now so I can get half my money?
    Now I am panicking in case her family come here,rip me off,steal my life savings and kick me out.
    Damn..I hope I`m not too late!
    Thanks for the advice.
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  6. Ian martin
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    Ian martin Member

    Never trust any filipina
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  7. Bootsonground
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    Bootsonground Guest

    Beach lots around our way is nearly 25K per Sqr meter... That`s all down to the "weak" Peso?
    Wow..That`s amazing.
    How weak is the Peso now in your opinion?
  8. Bootsonground
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    Bootsonground Guest

    Sounds like you speak from experience.
    How much did your one take you for??
  9. Ian martin
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    Ian martin Member

    Re-Read my post it may become clearer.
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  10. Bootsonground
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    Bootsonground Guest

    Thanks..Just Re-Read your post..
    Absolutely unbelievable. I am in shock,awe and utter amazement.. Incredible.
  11. Markham
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    Markham Guest

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    What a truly bitter individual you portray yourself to be. I have lived in the Philippines for some ten years, nine of them with my wife with whom I continue to enjoy a full and loving relationship. In my experience foreigners who treat their (Filipina) wives as they would a western woman, misogynistically, are more prone to their wives retaliating than those who treat them as fully-equal partners. Your characterisation of Filipinas is a generalisation which may apply to some females but by no means all.

    The value of the Peso is not decreasing currently. Ten years ago, one could get around 95 to £1 but fell to around 70 within a year or so and has been between 68 and 75 ever since. It 69.4 as of this writing.
  12. Ian martin
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    A total stranger who offends you or has a different experience of Filipinas, is "bitter" and "misogynistic".
    All I can do is tell my experiences of every foreigner man in the town of 65,000.
    If you have a different experience, good for you. I wont be name calling due to being offended.
    Of course filipinas are happy with you as long as your money flows in her direction to her family who are often drunks. If you want to be a human carpet it's up to you.
    One Welsh guy I know got cancer he asked his family in Wales to send him some money for hospital treatment his wife kept all the cash and he died a painful death. Her "husband's" life mattered nothing to her.
    Another woman, I called the black widow, she had 3 foreigner husbands who all died in mysterious circumstances. She accrued their wealth of course and lived in luxury house on the beach.
    Of course if you're happy being gullible, it's up to you, most of us are not
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  13. graham59
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    I'm seriously worried now. She's already started demanding sex at all sorts of ungodly hours... and I bought her some land. :(
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  14. Ian martin
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    One other foreigner where I lived, was married to a local Filipina , he was a British Canadian, he was shot dead suddenly one day by the filipino police in a maize field.
    The death never appeared in any news, it was all covered up. She got a big house free..
    If a Filipina wife or any member of her family have big debts and there is property in your wife/gf name, it's a big red flag. Your days may be numbered.

    I now live back in England, a few miles away there lives an infamous Filipina who was found guilty of manslaughter, stabbing of her English husband. She managed to get many letters from Brunei (haha) and philippines saying she had a mental illness and how she was a victim of "years of abuse" and "domestic violence" (yeah, yeah yeah, perennial get out of jail card for bad females) and the British judge believed her, Hook, line and sinker despite her previous record of assaulting her ex Filipino husband.
    She wrote a book all about it amazingly enough, despite the mental illness. It was obvious to anyone who has been to Philippines that she was just lying, but gullible men are everywhere, they are just prey for women like her.
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  15. graham59
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    Thanks for the warning.

    Fortunately, everything is in her name. :like:
  16. Markham
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    Markham Guest

    Why have you joined this forum?
  17. john jones
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    I feel sorry for you Ian Martin. What a sad way to generalize and stereotype every Filipina!
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  18. Druk1
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    Met a few like that,met a few who would have crawled over broken glass for me and spent their cash on me had I ever needed them to,people are people,not stereotypes :) (Even the French).
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  19. Bootsonground
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    Excuse me?
    You see,that`s where your argument disintegrates.
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  20. Ian martin
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    1. To put a different point of view. Being offended at views you don't like is not a "forum" is it?

    2. Helping others who may think buying land in Philippines is the same as in their own country. Land "registry" in the Philippines is often informal, the person that you just paid millions of pesos to, may not be the rightful owner.

    3. Trying to show how stupid it is to buy houses in someone else's name. Many many foreign men are the prey of filipinas. This is not making "stereotypes", this is from personal experience. Filipino police will only be on the side of Filipinos in any dispute
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