Understand what you're buying before you commit

Both are real titles and they describe different things. What’s printed on each, the line on a condo title almost nobody reads, and why a preselling buyer has neither one yet.

A free two-minute check on a government site, the ordinary reasons a real license comes back empty, and why the name you were handed is often the wrong one to search.

“Preselling is cheaper” gets repeated as fact. On a real Cebu studio, here’s what the discount actually discounts, and the three things you’re really being paid for.

A condo’s price list describes one thing you’re buying. Here’s the other: a share of the building’s shared spaces, computed on a real Cebu tower, and what that share actually costs.

People use broker, agent and salesperson for the same person. What each word means, which one has a license you can look up, and what to ask for before you pay.

What buying preselling means next to RFO, on a real Cebu studio: what you pay while it’s built, when you get the keys, and what’s still owed at turnover.