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Davao Port Complex handled 1.85 million TEUs in 2024 and is approaching the operational ceiling of its ICTSI-operated terminal at 2.1 million TEUs. A USD 45 million Phase 2 expansion, targeted for completion by the end of 2026, will add...
Metro Cebu's office vacancy rate reached 18.5% in Q2 2025. On paper, that is a market with room to breathe. In practice, the number obscures a sharp division. Grade A space inside Cebu Business Park and Cebu IT Park sits at roughly 12%...
Taguig City's IT-BPM industry crossed a threshold that aggregate industry data has obscured for two years. While national headcount growth decelerated to 3.2% in 2024, compensation for AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity professionals...
Taguig's commercial real estate market has never been more active. With 4.2 million square metres of gross floor area under construction, office vacancy in Bonifacio Global City sitting below 5%, and 280,000 square metres of new office...
Quezon City holds roughly 18% of Metro Manila's total retail gross leasable area. Five nodes dominate: SM North EDSA, TriNoma, Araneta City, Robinsons Magnolia, and Eastwood City. Together they employ well over 100,000 people directly and...
Quezon City produces more media professionals than any other city in the Philippines. Its universities turn out roughly 15,000 communication and film graduates annually. Its production facilities run at occupancy rates that exceed...
Metro Cebu's office vacancy rate reached 18.5% in Q2 2025. On paper, that is a market with room to breathe. In practice, the number obscures a sharp division. Grade A space inside Cebu Business Park and Cebu IT Park sits at roughly 12%...
Cebu's IT-BPM sector now employs close to 300,000 people across two compact economic zones, making it the largest provincial outsourcing hub in the Philippines and one of the most concentrated technology services clusters in Southeast...
Cebu Province's hospitality sector ended 2024 still carrying 18% fewer workers than it employed before the pandemic. On the surface, that looks like available labour. In practice, 73% of the city's hotel properties report supervisory...
Davao Port Complex handled 1.85 million TEUs in 2024 and is approaching the operational ceiling of its ICTSI-operated terminal at 2.1 million TEUs. A USD 45 million Phase 2 expansion, targeted for completion by the end of 2026, will add...
Davao City's tourism sector sits at an unusual inflection point. The national government has committed PHP 23 billion to the Samal Island-Davao City Connector bridge. The Francisco Bangoy International Airport expanded its terminal...
Davao Region produced 42,000 metric tons of exported durian in 2024. That figure represented a 340% surge over the prior year. It also represented a talent problem that the region's employers had never encountered at this scale: the...
The Port of Iloilo handled 4.8 million metric tons of domestic cargo in 2024, a 14% increase on the prior year. The Philippine Ports Authority is now spending PHP 1.2 billion on berth expansion and new gantry cranes, with partial...
Iloilo City's Mandurriao district now hosts over PHP 35 billion in completed mixed-use development value. Across a two-kilometre radius, branded hotels are opening, convention centres are filling, malls are expanding, and residential...
Iloilo City's IT-BPO sector crossed PHP 18.2 billion in direct revenues in 2024, employs an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 full-time equivalents across 45 operational centres, and is projected to add 8,000 to 10,000 net new positions by the...
Makati CBD's luxury hotels reported average daily rates 12% higher in 2024 than in the prior year. Retail vacancy in Greenbelt and Power Plant Mall fell below 8%, down from pandemic peaks above 18%. Ayala Land committed PHP 120 billion in...
Makati's IT-BPM sector generated 22% of the Philippines' total industry revenue in 2024 from just 12% of the national workforce. That ratio tells a story the headline employment numbers miss entirely. The professionals working in Makati's...
The Philippines produces roughly 150,000 business administration graduates annually. It produces approximately 3,500 certified risk managers, actuaries, and cybersecurity specialists combined. That ratio tells you almost everything you...
Metro Manila's wholesale trade corridor, anchored by the historic Divisoria, Binondo, and Quiapo districts, processes billions of pesos in annual textile, jewelry, and consumer goods transactions through a network of roughly 180,000 to...
Manila's Intramuros corridor generated PHP 12.3 billion in direct heritage tourism receipts in 2024. That figure will climb further through 2026 as the Department of Tourism targets 8.5 million international arrivals, 3,200 new hotel rooms...
The Port of Manila processed approximately 4.68 million TEUs in 2024, accounting for roughly 68% of the Philippines' total containerised cargo. That share has not changed materially since 2019, despite six years of official government...
Pasig's major developers committed PHP 45 billion to new mixed-use township projects breaking ground in 2025 and 2026. They did so while the city's office vacancy rate sat at 16.8%. That combination of aggressive capital deployment and...
Ortigas Center has 1.42 million square metres of office stock. As of late 2024, 18.2% of it sat empty. By any commercial real estate measure, that signals a tenant's market. Space is available, rents have stabilised below pre-pandemic...
Ortigas Center's Pasig side currently holds roughly 1.2 million square metres of Grade A office space. Approximately one in five of those square metres is vacant. By every physical metric, this district has room to grow. The buildings are...
Quezon City holds roughly 18% of Metro Manila's total retail gross leasable area. Five nodes dominate: SM North EDSA, TriNoma, Araneta City, Robinsons Magnolia, and Eastwood City. Together they employ well over 100,000 people directly and...
Quezon City produces more media professionals than any other city in the Philippines. Its universities turn out roughly 15,000 communication and film graduates annually. Its production facilities run at occupancy rates that exceed...
Quezon City's BPO clusters sit at the centre of an unusual contradiction. Office vacancy across the city's IT parks has climbed past 22%, with more than a million square metres of PEZA-accredited space partially idle. By every physical...
Taguig City's IT-BPM industry crossed a threshold that aggregate industry data has obscured for two years. While national headcount growth decelerated to 3.2% in 2024, compensation for AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity professionals...
Taguig's commercial real estate market has never been more active. With 4.2 million square metres of gross floor area under construction, office vacancy in Bonifacio Global City sitting below 5%, and 280,000 square metres of new office...
Bonifacio Global City has 14.2% Grade A office vacancy and over 300,000 square metres of shadow space from the POGO exodus. Walk through its towers and you would reasonably conclude this is a market with room to grow, where professional...
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