Developer sees huge potential in Vis-Min

With 5,600 units in the supply pipeline, the brisk sales of Davao City’s residential condominium projects have transformed this southern Mindanao capital into a real estate investment destination. Notwithstanding robust market conditions, Cebu Landmasters Inc.’s (CLI) first project in Davao Mesa Tierra Garden Residences set new benchmarks when 81 percent of its 694 residential units were taken up since launched last March.

Focused on the Visayas-Mindanao region, CLI set two similar records in the first semester of 2017. Casa Mira South in the industrializing area of the City of Naga in Metro Cebu was 81 percent sold in two months, and the high-end condo 38 Park Avenue in the Cebu IT Park sold at a record-high of 60 percent in less than four months.

All three are fine examples of “Vismin’s great pent-up demand for projects tailor-fit to the preferences of specific local markets,” according to Jose Soberano III, CLI president and CEO and former executive of Ayala Land. Soberano has more than 20 years of real estate experience in the country and was just recently awarded as Entrepreneur of the Year by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

All three also helped drive the newly listed firm’s reservation sales of P2.87 billion for the first half of 2017, almost surpassing the P2.94 billion registered for the entire 2016.

Among Vismin buyers, projects that represent getting more than what you pay for – good price, service and high value features and amenities are highly preferred, whether these developments cater to workers in Cebu’s industrial areas or to global citizens seeking to reside once more in the different Visayan metropolis after having led successful careers abroad, observed Soberano.

This is best illustrated by the 32-hectare Casa Mira South, an economic housing project just 14 kilometers from the South Road Properties where new mixed-use developments