Luxurious LifeStyle – SMDC luggage Developer of the Yr Award
Regardless of the pandemic, 2020 has formed as much as be a banner yr for SM Improvement Company (SMDC). The actual property large has discovered and continues to seek out methods to assist maintain the financial system shifting by taking an energetic function in an more and more vibrant actual property trade.
In a current interview with BusinessMirror, SMDC President Jose Mari Banzon stated that even with the continuing well being disaster, “the real estate industry is in the best position to do that with its association with several industries such as cement, steel, and construction, among others.”
SMDC, in line with Banzon has “changed the landscape of urban-dwelling by providing a product that gives residents the feeling of luxury through spaces that are efficient, with generous resort-type amenities, complete developments with commercial establishments and hotel-like experience.”
The corporate’s standard technique has paid off in spades. Not too long ago, SMDC scored a near-sweep on the prestigious and not too long ago concluded eighth PropertyGuru Awards, profitable a number of main awards together with essentially the most coveted Greatest Developer honor— a testomony to its commonplace of excellence in actual property improvement.
Along with Greatest Developer, SMDC was additionally honored with the Greatest Life-style Developer Award. The corporate’s Fern at Grass Residences bagged the Greatest Life-style Improvement Award, Park Residences was named Greatest Condominium Improvement (Luzon) and Appeal Residences took residence the Greatest Mid-Finish Condominium Improvement Award for Metro Manila. Within the design class, Sail Residences was the runaway winner with Greatest Panorama and Greatest Condominium Architectural Design awards.
Positioned throughout the SM Metropolis North EDSA complicated and offering handy entry to the long run Grand Unified Station which is able to give residents unparalleled entry to key areas in Metro Manila and past, Fern at Grass Residences is a longtime life-style district north of Metro Manila. As an unique enclave throughout the thriving full neighborhood of Grass Residences, the sheer variety of sports activities amenities which are unique to the residents make Fern at Grass Residences standout amongst different developments within the space.

Park Residences is positioned proper beside the SM Metropolis Sta Rosa Life-style Advanced and presents unmatched comfort and accessibility to quite a few retails shops, eating places and leisure choices within the mall. The transport terminal throughout the mall complicated additionally gives a hyperlink to numerous locations in Laguna, and to Metro Manila.
A contemporary modern medium-rise improvement, Park Residences can also be noteworthy for its expansive central park’s lush open area impressed by New York Metropolis’s Central Park, and is decked with numerous facilities like a youngsters’s play space, seating areas, swimming swimming pools and manicured gardens.
Appeal Residences is positioned alongside Felix Avenue, within the Metropolis of Cainta. The realm has turn into an epicenter for infrastructure and actual property improvement. True to its identify, Appeal Residences is a perfect neighborhood that appeals to each the sensible and aspirational senses of homebuyers and is especially distinctive with its skill to completely combine options of a whole mixed-use improvement and within the course of, maintain the intimacy of a decent knit neighborhood because it additionally presents hotel-like lobbies, and beneficiant resort-styled facilities, and a neighborhood mall proper inside its improvement.

Lastly, there’s Sail Residences. Developed to supply an expensive and bespoke life-style throughout the world-class SM Mall of Asia enterprise and life-style district, the mission presents a improvement and residing expertise apt for the discerning style of this world market.
As an ode to its location, the trendy architectural design of Sail Residences was impressed by a sailboat deck and gives an total really feel that’s each lavish and opulent. That is made evident by the glass balconies of the items, and the three viewing platforms overlooking the Mall of Asia Advanced and Manila Bay. These design components are often seen on these mega cruise ships that sail the open waters.
Along with these tasks, a number of SMDC properties had been additionally Extremely Counseled in a number of improvement classes.
They’re S Residences (Greatest Excessive-Finish Condominium Improvement for Metro Manila); Leaf Residences (Greatest Mid-Finish Condominium Improvement for Metro Manila); Bloom Residences, Subject Residences and Vine Residences (Greatest Inexpensive Condominium Improvement for Metro Manila); Inexperienced 2 Residences and Hope Residences (Greatest Condominium Improvement for Luzon); Smile Residences and Model Residences (Greatest Condominium Improvement for Visayas); S Residences and Sail Residences (Greatest Life-style Improvement).
Within the Design class, the next properties had been Extremely Counseled: S Residences (Greatest Condominium Architectural Design, Greatest Condominium Inside Design and Greatest Panorama Architectural Design); Sail Residences and Shore three Residences (Greatest Condominium Inside Design).
Banzon was not shocked with the quite a few recognitions. Recalling the nation’s historical past and achievements, Banzon famous that SMDC has been operational for the final 14 years and through that point, the corporate has launched 47 tasks in main CBDs not solely in Metro Manila but in addition within the provinces.
“We have turned over more than 70,000 units. We have significantly contributed to the country’s economic growth and social development by investing about P164 billion in the residential construction industry over the years, creating more than 350,000 jobs for skilled workers, technical professionals and office employees,” Banzon additional identified.
Lastly, SMDC’s The Good Guys neighborhood program additionally acquired a Particular Recognition in CSR. In explaining how the corporate integrates Company Social Accountability into its enterprise model, Banzon is fast to underscore the truth that “The Good Guys is not just a tagline.”
“We try our best to live up to that promise. We are community builders. As such, we do not just develop edifices for groups of people to have a dwelling place. We make sure that such a community lives in a secure, happy, healthy and thriving place. We do it by constantly looking for avenues to make sure that such a promise is fulfilled, understand what our residents and stakeholders – especially the socially disadvantaged like the elderlies and the PWDs, or the economically displaced – need and address them through projects that not only provide for those needs, but also strengthen the community spirit. In so doing, we create a community of Good Guys wanting to do good for others. Ultimately, community building becomes nation building.”
In expressing his gratitude to the PropertyGuru organisation to the quite a few honors bestowed upon SMDC, Banzon stated that “to be recognized by an esteemed organization such as PropertyGuru, to be counted among the best, is already something that we are proud of.”
“It is a validation that we have indeed turned our vision into reality, that we are contributing to building a nation of homeowners; not just any home, but a home that allows the homeowner to live his best life. Thank you for giving recognition to the real estate industry’s efforts to give Filipinos the best value for their hard-earned money with homes that provide the best possible living experience,” Banzon additional stated.
The eighth PropertyGuru Philippines Awards is spearheaded by the PropertyGuru Group, dubbed “Southeast Asia’s pioneering and most trusted property technology company.” The corporate goals to handle ache points on the subject of residence possession, and thru Asia Property Awards (beneath which is the PropertyGuru Philippines Awards), it goals to acknowledge, reward, and have a good time the most important achievers in actual property improvement in Asia.
Because of being awarded as Greatest Developer by PropertyGuru, SMDC will probably be representing the Philippines on the 2020 Asia Property Awards to be held just about on December 5.