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SR 2019-38
7 in 10 constructions are residential buildings
- Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) recorded 1,388 new private constructions in 2018. This was an increase of 6.5 percent from 2017 with 1,303 constructions. These constructions had a total area of 591,858 square meters worth PHP 7.0 billion.
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Residential houses shared 71.9 percent of the new building constructions for the year or 998 new buildings for dwelling purposes (Figure 1). These units costed PHP 4.1 billion with total floor area of 317,517 square meters.
Figure 1. Distribution of Cost and Number of Building Constructions by Type, CAR: 2018
- New non-residential buildings, shared 19.1 percent of the new building constructions. Alterations and repairs made up 7.1 percent while additions to existing buildings comprised 1.9 percent of the total constructions in the region (Figure 1).
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Private building constructions approved in second quarter in 2018 reached 400 applications (Figure 2). This was higher than the most recorded approved building permits in a quarter the previous year, wherein 339 applications were filed during the 4th quarter of 2017.
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About two in three approved constructions (62.0 percent) in 2018 were located in Benguet province with 860 buildings (Figure 2). These constructions costed about PHP 5.6 billion with total floor area of 438,540 square meters.
Figure 2. Approved Building Constructions by Quarter and Province, CAR: 2017 and 2018
Cost of residential buildings rises by 52.5 percent
- Value of new residential buildings in 2018 (PHP 4.1 billion) increased by more than half of its amount in 2017, even though the number of units only increased by only 4.8 percent from 952 approved constructions in the previous year.
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Single occupancy units had the biggest share among residential buildings with 93.7 percent and with an accumulated floor area of 187,737 square meters and estimated cost of PHP 2.2 billion.
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New single residential buildings in Benguet province and Baguio City area amounted to PHP 1.9 billion for 619 units in 2018. This was 66.1 percent of the total single occupancy houses approved in the region (Figure 3).
More new high-rise condominiums in Baguio City-Benguet areas
- Additional of 62 units of multiple occupancy residential buildings were issued building permits in 2018 (Figure 3). These had an accumulated value of PHP 1.9 billion, about 2.5 times the cost of approved constructions of this type in 2017 with PHP 723.9 million.
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The cost of residential condominium units shared 87.8 percent to the total construction costs of multiple occupancy residential units, with value of PHP 1.7 billion. This amount was a big leap from previous year’s cost of PHP 469.9 million. The number of soon-to-rise condominiums also jumped three times more than the figure in 2016, from only four units to 12 new projects.
Figure 3. Number of Approved Residential Building Constructions by Type and Province, CAR: 2018
- All new multiple occupancy units in 2018 were built in Baguio City and Benguet area, with exception to a few duplex and apartment/ accessoria located in Ifugao and Kalinga. (Figure 3).
Non-residential building constructions value PHP 2.7 billion
- Construction of new non-residential units across the region for the year was recorded at 265 buildings that costed PHP 2.7 billion and floor area of 266,788 square meters. These cover new constructions of commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural buildings and other non-residential types.
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Commercial (55.1 percent) and institutional buildings (37.4 percent) comprised the majority of the non-residential constructions with value of PHP 1.4 billion and PHP 893.8 million, respectively.
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About one in three non-residential units (32.5 percent) were situated in Baguio City and Benguet area with total cost of PHP 1.7 billion. The rest of the provinces also shared to the total non-residential unit constructions for the reference year such as Kalinga (26.8 percent), Apayao (23.4 percent), Ifugao (10.5 percent) and Abra (6.0 percent). Only two approved non-residential building constructions was reported for Mountain Province in 2018.
Two in five commercial buildings are intended for trade
- Stores made up 55.5 percent of the total non-residential units for construction in the region. These had an accumulated floor area of 22,900 square meters for 81 units that costed PHP 221.3 million. Most new stores for constructions were registered in Apayao with 37 units, some were located at the other CAR provinces except in Mountain Province.
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There were 26 new commercial units of buildings for accommodation, wherein one in two of these (53.8 percent) were in Baguio City-Benguet area. The total approved construction amounted to PHP 853.2 million with combined floor area of 77,854 square meters.
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Four new banks were constructed in 2018 in the region, particularly in Benguet province with estimated cost of PHP 50.7 million. Two new units of office buildings on the other hand were installed in Abra and Ifugao provinces, with a total value of PHP 43.3 million.
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Another 33 constructions of other new commercial buildings with aggregated value of PHP 253.0 million were reported from all provinces, mostly in Benguet with 14 units.
Kalinga province has 31 new building constructions for schools
- CAR provinces, except Abra, had new school building constructions in 2018, with a total of 59 units and estimated cost of PHP 608.8 million. These were 59.6 percent of the total institutional buildings approved in the region during the year.
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Nine new units of churches and religious structures were planned to be built in Abra, Benguet, Ifugao, and Kalinga, all with total cost of PHP 11.1 million. Meanwhile, four new hospital buildings in Benguet and Kalinga provinces were for construction in 2018 with aggregated worth of PHP 84.7 million.
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Additional industrial structures were intended to be built in the region with 10 constructions in Abra, Benguet, Ifugao and Apayao, with 50,240 square-meter total floor area amounting to Php 347.8 million.
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Six new units of agricultural structures such as poultry houses and and rice mills were anticipated to be constructed in Ifugao, Kalinga and Apayao with PHP 26.0 million total cost.
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