About Arcenas Associates

Arcenas Associates has been brokering real estate in the principal gated villages of Metro Manila for over forty years. Through the homes.com.ph platform, Arcenas Associates shares its inventory of houses, lots, and condominiums for rent or sale in Forbes Park, Dasmariñas Village, Urdaneta Village, Bel-Air Village, San Lorenzo Village, Salcedo Village, Legaspi Village, Rockwell Center, Bonifacio Global City, Ayala Alabang Village, Alabang Hills, and Hillsborough, with selected coverage in Valle Verde, Corinthian Gardens, and Greenhills.

Principal

Tessie Arcenas is a licensed real estate broker with over forty years of brokerage experience. Her network of landlords and brokers in the prime residential areas of Dasmariñas and Forbes Park has long established her as among the leading brokers to contact when looking for a house in Makati.

Team

The firm's brokerage team is led by licensed real estate brokers Raphael Arcenas (Director, Housing Services) and Gabriel Arcenas (Director). They have worked extensively with buyers looking for properties in the exclusive areas of Makati and with expat and diplomat families relocating into Metro Manila.

Arcenas Associates is the exclusive marketing partner for Tierra International Construction Corp., a long-established builder of executive-grade homes in the Makati villages. Tierra has long established itself as the industry leader in this exclusive residential market, with more than 120 properties for long-term occupancy in the Makati area. The company has separately delivered residential and infrastructure projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Singapore, Micronesia, and on the U.S. military base of Diego Garcia.

Services

The firm handles full executive home search, lease negotiation, and tenancy management. Standard engagements include accompanied viewings tied to the client's brief, lease negotiation and document review, ongoing liaison between tenant and landlord, move-in and move-out inventory and condition documentation, termination notifications per lease terms, and coordination for security deposit return and mail forwarding. Where appropriate, Arcenas Associates represents both sides of a transaction; where required by deed restrictions or owner preference, it coordinates village association approvals, security clearances, and architectural compliance.

Network

Arcenas Associates maintains active referral and listing-sharing relationships with the principal international relocation firms operating in the Philippines, including Santa Fe Relocation Services, Annexus, and Crown Relocation, among others. The firm also co-brokers with established networks such as CBRE and RE/MAX where a transaction crosses sectors or geographies that complement its village-focused practice.

Portfolio

Over four decades the firm has placed clients across multiple generations of resident families and has handled the housing brief for senior staff of multilateral institutions, bilateral embassy missions, and Fortune 500 corporates across financial services, consumer goods, technology, pharmaceuticals, energy, and aviation. Engagements are handled directly by the principal brokers; the firm does not operate a call center or open-house programme.

Selected past engagements

A representative subset of completed placements over the firm's forty-year history. Not exhaustive.

Multilateral institutions

Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN World Food Programme, World Bank.

Embassies

Australia, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.

Financial services

Citibank N.A., HSBC, Macquarie Bank, Philam Life, Standard Chartered Bank, Sun Life, Visa.

Industrial, energy, and aviation

BMW, Cemex, Chevron, Holcim, Japan Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Lafarge, Odfjell, Shell.

Consumer goods and pharmaceuticals

Avon, Bristol-Myers, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Energizer, Eveready, Heineken, Japan Tobacco (JTI), Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, Nestlé Philippines, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Unilever.

Technology, professional services, and BPO

Accenture, Deutsche Knowledge Services, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Nokia, People Support, Teletech, Telstra.

Philippine corporates and hospitality

PLDT, Solaire.

Contact

For sale or lease inquiries, contact the firm at info@homes.com.ph, mobile +63 917 722 1103, or landline +63 2 817 1529.