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Developers propose home loan subsidies

Real estate developers urge the government to consider subsidizing homebuyers as another way to meet socialized housing requirements, saying the proposal could make monthly loan payments more affordable for low-income families. The Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Associations Inc. (CREBA) is proposing an interest subsidy program through Pag-IBIG Fund, alongside changes to balanced housing rules and regulations on the use of preselling proceeds. The proposals were discussed during CREBA’s 53rd national convention in Cebu City from Oct. 21 to 23, 2026.

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00:00If you want to make the developers want to pay the price,
00:04the price will contribute to a housing interest subsidy.
00:11It will bring down the cost of the monthly of the beneficiary direct.
00:17So, if you want to pay for its housing unit, let's say it's paid $4,800.
00:24But with the PREVA proposal, direct subsidy of the interest rate,
00:29we're targeting about P2,000.
00:32So, marami na makaka-apport doon.
00:35Mananamdaman sa mismo,
00:36nung beneficiary, yung tulong, yung intervention.
00:41Rather than forcing developers to put up units,
00:45which up to now, some of which has remained unoccupied.
00:51Sino ang kumita doon?
00:52Walang kumita doon. Ang kumita doon, yung contractor siguro.
00:56Pero yung beneficiary, hindi niya natira.
00:59Yung beneficiary, napilit mo maglabas ng pera for nothing.
01:04So, we're saying there are better alternative modes of compliance that will help the beneficiary.
01:13Number one, we would like to take a second look again.
01:17How effective has the socialized housing compliance been?
01:21How effective has it been delivered to the people that need this?
01:26As we all know, it's not, I mean, kotinak, no?
01:33Not so many have actually given this socialized housing developments.
01:38So, there's something that needs to be reviewed.
01:42So, we have some solutions, some suggestions, some recommendations.
01:48So that, uh, when yung question ka sigyan sa socialized housing.
01:53Dibanda, developers are asked that if you're,
01:57that if you're, have a main project development,
01:59you're supposed to get set aside 15% of your main project development costs
02:07and put into a socialized housing.
02:10And put into a socialized housing.
02:12So, it's a socialized housing.
02:13If it's a subdivision, no?
02:16May ceiling yan.
02:17You cannot go beyond the ceiling.
02:19But we are trying to entice foreign investors
02:22to consider the investment of the piece.
02:25It may not be an alternative,
02:26but it's an addition to their top of portfolios.
02:30So, with GREBA's affiliation,
02:34with GREBA's active, uh, partnership
02:37with the international community,
02:41especially right now, we, GREBA,
02:43is the exclusive bilateral partner
02:45of the National Association of Reotrists in the U.S.
02:49So, we have access to about 1.5 million reotrists worldwide.
02:55And, uh, just like when GREBA was born
02:59more than 50 years ago,
03:01uh, she was also part of it, uh, in the growth process.
03:06I personally had been in the GREBA organization
03:11for, uh, maybe 50, maybe even closer than 20 years.
03:17For, for a time, I was also the president here.
03:20And, uh, when I was called upon by my good friend here,
03:25President Toti, to, to be part of the National Board,
03:29I did not hesitate.
03:31And, Cebuano is always in the forefront, no?
03:34When, when I was asked to do one to go, uh, this year,
03:39uh, the convention,
03:41here is the venue, uh, as, uh, power-true,
03:45on the last one in Baguio, another ECT.
03:48And we're used to that.
03:51And, uh, it's a welcome leap for Cebuanos.
03:54.
03:55.
03:56.
03:57.
04:05.
04:25I'll see you next time.

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