Dipolog Houseand Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Inter Island Travel

If you decide to buy a Dipolog house and lot, the chances are you will need to travel and there is a wide choice, Land, sea and air

Safety of Aircraft

Two main airlines serve Dipolog with daily flights to Manila Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific and can be regarded as safe.

Safety of Ships Another important thing to be concerned about it boat safety on the inter island boats. The Philippines is an Archipelago, and is serviced by ferries, some very modern ones, on group called Philippine Super Ferries. They look like ocean liners, have sleeping accommodations, nice meals, and private cabins at reasonable prices. Some are called Super Cats, very fast, just go for a couple of hours to the next island and give you time to watch a video movie, have a hot dog and cup of coffee from the snack bar while relaxing in air-conditioning. Some but some Philippine inter island boats look like they are going down for the third time. And they may be.

But there are many ferries that are not well maintained and overcrowded especially during holiday times, All Saint Day, Christmas, and other holidays not a popular. Tickets are hard to get at those times. And if you get one, you may not even have life jacket and be very uncomfortable and not be safe. But if you pick your time and your ship using a reputable travel agency and do so in advance, you should have a comfortable trip.

Roads The main Philippine high from Manila passes through Dipolog city, there are however a number of RoRo ferries in between Manila and Zamboanga. The roads are generally good but you have to watch out for the rural buses buses and Jeepneys which have a bad habit of stopping on blind corners. You also need to get used to the chicanes outside schools, so its best to travel at weekends.

There are isolated spots in the Mindaneao where there is some danger from terrorists, generally the Muslim areas where you will note an increased presence of both military and police road blocks. generally advice do not stop at unofficial road blocks. I rely on the British FCO for information and this is the latest news There is a threat from kidnapping in the Philippines, particularly in the southern Philippines. Kidnapping could occur anywhere, including on coastal and island resorts and dive boats and sites in the Sulu Sea. On 12 July two US citizens and a Philippine national were kidnapped from a resort on the island of Tictabon near the southern port city of Zamboanga.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog Houseand Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Buying Property in the Philippines

The Philippines are very protective when it comes to owning land in Philippines and if you are not a Philippine citizen there are a few options you can consider.

Family Links

As mentioned above, one must be a Filipino citizen to buy property and have it under their name. But, there are a few ways around this. A foreigner person can actually inherit land if they are a legal or natural heir, meaning acquisition by hereditary succession. A foreigner owning land hereditary is a rare instance, however.

The most common way of owning property would be if the foreigner person marries a Philippine citizen. The land title in this case, would be under the Filipino or Filipina's name. But in the event that the Filipino spouse dies, the property should remain in the hands of a Filipino. In such an instance, the foreigner may give the property to his Filipino children. If he doesn't have children, he may pass the property to a relative of the deceased Filipino spouse, or he may simply sell the property.

If you don't wish to become involved with a local spouse there are another couple of way to purchase property

Form a Filipino Corporation

A corporation is also an entity that acts as an individual. This entity is allowed to borrow, lease, and purchase property. In light of this, the Corporation can legally buy property as if it were an individual purchasing the property.

In the case of a foreigner buying property with a corporation, the corporation must be at least 60% owned by Filipino citizen/s and have at least five people within the corporation (this also includes the foreigner). And so, the foreigner can own up to 40% of the property.

Foreigners can legally own Condominiums

Condominiums are treated somewhat differently. This somewhat also follows the corporation principle of the 60%- 40% rule. Foreigners can own up to 40% of the development when they purchase a units they becomes a stockholder of condominium corporation.

Leasing Philippine Real Estate The final option for the foreigner is that they or or their corporation can go into a leasing agreement with a Filipino who owns land. The lease can be held long term and the foreigner can enter into an initial 50-year contract that can be renewed for another 25 years. Any property built on the land is legally owned by the foreigner.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog House and Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Why Not to Use Hollow block

Hollow blocks is a backyard industry in the Philippines' and is not regulated. Hence, mostly the quality is poor. Drop a block on the floor and it breaks in many pieces. they are bot recommended to build your Dipolog house and lot.

Hollow blocks are nothing more than stones that you stack between the columns like Lego so you can make an opening in it to place the windows or doors; They cannot carry loads, the columns do that). They have no other function than being a wall. It's the cheapest way to make a wall but they are weak and they have to make the wall 4 inch or 6 inch thick to become strong enough. Consequently the wall becomes heavier than necessary. And since the wall consists of weak hollow blocks mixed with strong reinforcement bars, there is 'the weakest link factor' that makes the (too heavy-) wall prone to forces that want to find a way out and results in cracks.

The strength of a hollow block wall is much less than poured concrete walls.

Hollow blocks also need to be plastered (covered with a separate thin layer of a cement/sand mix) which is time-consuming and it might crack; exposing the steel reinforcement bars which will rust.

When using blocks the columns (posts and beams) carry the second floor and/or your roof. Hence the weight of your house put pressure only on the little footings of the columns and you have to be pretty sure that your soil can hold that.

Now compare that with poured Concrete Walls which are strong enough to carry the next floors and roof. The weight of your house put pressure on the walls columns and beams. That's a much bigger surface.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog house and lot

Dipolog house and lot for sale

site visit

Today we made a short site visit to our Dipolog hose and lost for sale at Mediatrix Hills Upper Turno. The changes to both the front and dirty kitchen doors frames have been completed. There remains two sections of walls to be completed where we will have patio windows installed, so hope by the time we visit again the walls will have been poured

We raised a couple of issues with the resident engineer, one being the installation of a telephone point in the upstairs family area, and the other question as to the arrangement for hot water supplier to all sinks , basins, showers and bath. we also clarified that windows will be sliding type. we also questioned changing out the air con unit in the master bedroom from a window type to a split unit.

We took some general photos of the site which will be publish in due course. We are satified with progress and the site visits allow us to keep on top of progress in building our Dipolog house and lot for sale.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog house and lot

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Buy or rent

Every year, prices go up and the population grows which keeps the market fairly balanced. Since there's few chances of getting a modern Dipolog house and lot on sale, some people try to rent but again there is a shortage of modern houses.

There's a fine line between buying and building your own house. If you have means of construction resources, easy access to construction suppliers and source of workers to the difficult parts of the construction, you can save not only your money but your time finding prominent workers as well.

In addition, you can modify your home for your needs and aesthetic taste. Furthermore, if you plan to build a house where market is stable, you'll appreciate it when the time you are ready to move and the market goes on upward prices.

On the other hand, if you plan to buy an existing house or lot, it allows you to move in quickly but might not contain all the features you want.

The only problem in buying a Dipolog house for sale is if it not finished to the standard you require. Make sure your house is worth the wait and matches the taste and preference of your dream home. You can modify your Dipolog house and lot designs to incorporate the features that fit your lifestyle.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog house and lot

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Building Progress

We paid a brief visit to our Dipolog house and lot yesterday to check on progress and the house is beginning to take shape with the shuttering for the outer walls of ground floor 80% completed. Interior shuttering of maids room, general toilet, Dirty kitchen all completed.

Door frames have been installed however two frames need changing around as exterior doors need to open outwards giving more room in the interior of house. Having outwards opening doors I believe ads to safety and security. If someone tries to force entry they have to break the door frame and in event of fire it is easier to push the door open.

I am pleased with method of construction using reinforced poured concreate as opposed to blocks so house will better withstand any earth tremors. I need to check wiring plans as it seems some electrical plan updates may be missing, but as I believe these are on the upper floor it should not delay work.

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Dipolog house and lot

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Building Progress

We paid a brief visit to our Dipolog house and lot yesterday to check on progress and the house is beginning to take shape with the shuttering for the outer walls of ground floor 80% completed. Interior shuttering of maids room, general toilet, Dirty kitchen all completed.

Door frames have been installed however two frames need changing around as exterior doors need to open outwards giving more room in the interior of house. Having outwards opening doors I believe ads to safety and security. If someone tries to force entry they have to break the door frame and in event of fire it is easier to push the door open.

I am pleased with method of construction using reinforced poured concreate as opposed to blocks so house will better withstand any earth tremors. I need to check wiring plans as it seems some electrical plan updates may be missing, but as I believe these are on the upper floor it should not delay work.

Dipolog house and lot for sale