Key regional officers led by Group Head Engr. Ric A. Pallesco received the Best Housing Developer in Visayas and Mindanao award at the Dot Property and Lamudi Philippines Real Estate Awards 2026.
Camella has been named Best Housing Developer in Visayas and Mindanao at the Dot Property and Lamudi Philippines Real Estate Awards 2026.
The distinction places national scale beside regional strength. For nearly five decades, Camella has expanded across the archipelago by building where Filipino families decide to reside, pursue livelihoods, raise children, and prepare property assets for succeeding generations. In Visayas and Mindanao, the story has unfolded alongside shifting cities, supporting economies, infrastructure expansion, and enduring cultural identities.
Camella earns the distinction of Best Housing Developer in Visayas and Mindanao, affirming its longstanding presence across the two island groups.
At the heart of Filipino life
Housing in the Philippines carries economic importance, but its meaning is equally social. Across an archipelago shaped by movement between islands, regional centers, provincial corridors, and overseas workplaces, the home often anchors that mobility. It can serve as a family residence, an inheritance, and a tangible result of years spent working away from loved ones.
That significance becomes clearer in Visayas and Mindanao. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data from the 2024 Census of Population placed the combined population of the two island groups at more than 48.56 million—over 43 percent of the national total of 112.73 million. The Visayas accounts for approximately 21.03 million people, while Mindanao is home to about 27.53 million.
From established urban centers to emerging corridors, Camella continues to build communities where Filipino families live, work, and grow.
These figures represent households composed of nuclear families, extended families, and multigenerational living arrangements. Their requirements differ, yet the aspiration for a secure, lasting address remains deeply interwoven into Filipino life.
“Being named Best Housing Developer in Visayas and Mindanao is meaningful on our road to 50 years because these are places where Camella has grown alongside Filipino families through decades of progress,” said Engr. Ric A. Pallesco, Group Head for Visayas and Mindanao. “We have advanced with the centers and corridors, listened to the priorities and preferences of Filipino families, and remained present as one generation prepared the way for the next. This award strengthens our responsibility to continue creating communities where heritage and horizons, lifestyles and legacies, can move forward together.”
Camella’s presence across Panay reflects its commitment to communities shaped by evolving centers of commerce, culture, and opportunity.
Residential reach amid regional resilience
The award arrives as southern Philippine economies continue to broaden their contribution to national development. In 2025, Western Visayas posted the fastest regional expansion in the country at 6.40 percent. Negros Island Region and Caraga followed at 5.70 percent. The Davao Region grew by 5.15 percent, BARMM by five percent, Northern Mindanao by 4.90 percent, and SOCCSKSARGEN by 4.80 percent—all exceeding the recorded 4.4 percent national growth rate.
Growth changes where people work, study, establish enterprises, raise families, and invest in their futures. As employment centers extend and infrastructure improves, the residential map moves with them. Camella has been part of that momentum for almost half a century.
The development of Camella across Visayas and Mindanao is measured in decades. Iloilo reached its 26th-anniversary milestone in 2026, as the Heart of the Philippines continued to strengthen its standing in tourism, commerce, education, and investment. Bacolod has welcomed the housing brand since 2008, while communities in Cebu are approaching four decades of residential presence. Cagayan de Oro is nearing 20 years with Camella, while the Davao Region marked over three decades, sustaining a longstanding footprint across nearly a dozen locations.
Across Davao and neighboring growth centers, Camella has grown alongside families and communities for generations.
Those timelines span shifts in property preferences and household structures. They demonstrate why longevity matters in real estate: Camella does not merely respond to a region at one point in time; it must remain relevant as roads, routines, and responsibilities change.
A sense of scale, pride in place
Camella marks its 49th year in 2026 with more than 600,000 iconic homes and 1,250 communities across 49 provinces and 147 cities and municipalities nationwide. Its geographic reach within the upper- and middle-income segments gives the housing brand distinct visibility across tourism destinations, growth centers, and infralink projects.
Yet Visayas and Mindanao resist a single residential formula. While its Spanish Mediterranean-inspired house models remain iconic, these forever homes have been formed for flexibility across changing seasons and life stages. Iloilo carries a different cultural cadence from Cebu, Iloilo, and Bacolod to Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, Tagum, Davao, Zamboanga, Koronadal, and General Santos each possess distinct industries, institutions, traditions, and trajectories.
From Cagayan de Oro and beyond, Camella continues to create communities alongside the region’s expanding economies and changing lifestyles.
The task of nationwide building, therefore, is not simply to replicate. It pairs proven planning with local relevance by locating residential developments near workplaces, schools, transport networks, retail parks, and everyday essentials, while offering house-and-lot properties, lifestyle amenities, landscaped spaces, and security features that support long-term living.
Being the Philippines’ most trusted and preferred housing brand makes its latest recognition especially resonant. Across islands shaped by migration and return, commerce and culture, kinship and continuity, Camella has become part of the residential history of communities moving the country forward. The award affirms what nearly five decades of homebuilding have made possible: Filipino families putting down roots while their regions rise around them.
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