ASEAN Integration
ASEAN Integration: Real Estate Practitioner Perspective
By: Gus Agosto, REB, REA
What is the view of the real estate practitioners on ASEAN Integration? The integration will bring both opportunities and challenges to the 28,869 licensed real estate practitioners in the country. It means bigger market and area for business, exposure to different practices and culture, marketing strategies and plans. It should help in easing the problems besetting the practitioners for several decades.
ASEAN is composed of 10 countries—Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It has a vast economic market of 600 million people, which accounts for at least 8 percent of the global population, spread across 4.6 million square meters of prime real estate.
The integration will result in stronger capital inflow and investments, particularly in real estate industry. More industry players also mean increased rate of construction activities where we will be seeing mixed-use residential districts, retail, commercial and office hubs, and key infrastructures—airports, sea ports and many others more—racing to dot the skyline all at the same time.
We will also see more emerging economic hotspots in various parts of the country, particularly in Mindanao—a region deemed as the Philippines’s gateway to the rest of Southeast Asia. Small and new players will venture other markets in provinces.
The free flow of goods and services will result in much higher rate of consumer spending. This will then drive the development of more lifestyle-centric developments, such as malls, retail complexes and properties anchored on tourism, across the archipelago.
This will activate other industries in our country that will result in job creation and lessening new entrants and “part-timers” in real estate.
With ASEAN, foreign and local developers will rely on local practitioners to market their properties and in exploring more properties in
By: Gus Agosto, REB, REA
What is the view of the real estate practitioners on ASEAN Integration? The integration will bring both opportunities and challenges to the 28,869 licensed real estate practitioners in the country. It means bigger market and area for business, exposure to different practices and culture, marketing strategies and plans. It should help in easing the problems besetting the practitioners for several decades.
ASEAN is composed of 10 countries—Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It has a vast economic market of 600 million people, which accounts for at least 8 percent of the global population, spread across 4.6 million square meters of prime real estate.
The integration will result in stronger capital inflow and investments, particularly in real estate industry. More industry players also mean increased rate of construction activities where we will be seeing mixed-use residential districts, retail, commercial and office hubs, and key infrastructures—airports, sea ports and many others more—racing to dot the skyline all at the same time.
We will also see more emerging economic hotspots in various parts of the country, particularly in Mindanao—a region deemed as the Philippines’s gateway to the rest of Southeast Asia. Small and new players will venture other markets in provinces.
The free flow of goods and services will result in much higher rate of consumer spending. This will then drive the development of more lifestyle-centric developments, such as malls, retail complexes and properties anchored on tourism, across the archipelago.
This will activate other industries in our country that will result in job creation and lessening new entrants and “part-timers” in real estate.
With ASEAN, foreign and local developers will rely on local practitioners to market their properties and in exploring more properties in