Pag-IBIG Financing vs Bank Financing — A Mortgage Loan Comparison

Do you have any idea how much is the going rate of the Home Loan Program offered by your favorite bank? As a home buyer, one of the first steps you should take before starting the legwork of searching for your home is to get to know the interest rates currently available in the market. [...]

Long Term Mortgage Loan — How To Retire It Early, Part 2 of 2

In Part 1 of this series, you’ve learned that long term home financing could be very expensive in the long run while at the same time it also makes an expensive property look more affordable on a monthly basis. For many, getting a home loan is the only way to ever achieve their dreams of [...]

Long Term Mortgage Loan — How To Retire It Early, Part 1 of 2

Some of you may have already thought about, or even calculated, the real cost of getting a mortgage loan to finance your home purchase. If you did, that’s a good sign that you are savvy when it comes to your money. Keep that good habit alive. The calculation is actually very simple and straight-forward. All [...]

5 Tips To Take If Your Housing Loan Application Is Denied

In an ideal world, you should never be turned down whenever you apply for a Pag-IBIG Housing Loan. You can simply go to the office of the Pag-IBIG Fund, the staff would be excited to serve you, you smile as you submit all the requirements and wait the next day for the approval. What wonderful [...]

Pag-IBIG Loans: Interest Rates, Penalties And Defaults, Part 2 of 2

This is the second part on this series of articles about the Pag-IBIG Interest rates, penalties and defaults, as the title clear suggests. In part 1, we mentioned about the going rate of Pag-IBIG Housing Loan. In case you missed it, please click here to read the article. In this article, we’ll touch on the [...]

Pag-IBIG Loans: Interest Rates, Penalties And Defaults, Part 1 of 2

There’s more to loans than just getting the money and paying for it. If you have been a frequent visitor to this website and you are constantly in the look out for new articles, you should already know that Pag-IBIG Loans (both Housing Loan and Multi-Purpose Loan) come with interests. Borrowing Money Comes With A [...]

5 Ways To Pay The Pag-IBIG Fund

Pag-IBIG Fund members can be grouped roughly into two: those based locally in the Philippines, and those based overseas (The Filipino Overseas workers, Filipino Expats, Immigrants and the sea farers) For the first group, sending their payments and contributions to the Pag-IBIG Fund should be easy. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Not every [...]

Housing Loan Preparation: How To Flex Your Financial Muscle

“Get your finances in order.” You have probably read that statement several times on different pages of this website. Usually, it is the response we give to visitors who are asking for guidance on how to get, and eventually be approved for, a housing loan from the Pag-IBIG Fund. The phrase is very brief but [...]

Forget About That Dream House, Buy A Functional House Instead

Have you ever entertained that thought of buying a home of your own? If not yet, beware! It’s one of those nasty things that could give you sleepless nights… next only to Facebook. From the design of the house and the size of the lawn, to the number of rooms and the kind the furniture [...]

I Won PhP 850,000 in Pabahay ni “Binay” and You Too Can

Yes, you too can… …get scammed if you are not very careful. Let me explain. I was supposed to be feeling lucky this morning. The first text message I got was from a friend saying, “Thank You.” What a lovely day! This is the kind of SMS message I’d like to read first thing in [...]