6 Crises in 7 Years: Why Philippine Real Estate Is Still Standing — And What That Means for Buyers
Seven years. Six major crises. A global pandemic, a government ban that wiped out an entire tenant class, the sharpest interest rate hike cycle in a generation, a flood control scandal that shook public trust in infrastructure promises, two separate global cost shocks driven by war. Any one of those would have been enough to rattle a fragile market. Philippine real estate absorbed all six — not without damage, but without breaking. This article traces what each crisis actually did, how the market recovered each time, and what that pattern means for the three kinds of buyers most likely to be reading this right now.