100 SERENDRA FACTS

1.SERENDRA is a joint project of ALVEO LAND Corp. and AYALA LAND, INC.

2.SERENDRA is the most innovative low density residential condominium

3.SERENDRA defines the highest aesthetics and quality standards of property development

4.SERENDRA is Ayala’s only low and mid-rise, garden view residential condominium

5.SERENDRA is available at very affordable pre-selling prices

6.SERENDRA is a huge 12 hectare project – 65% of which (approx. 7.5 hectares) will be devoted entirely to wide open spaces, orchards, themed gardens, orchidarium, court yards, amenities, and lush greenery.

7.SERENDRA offers families suburban living in the city

8.In SERENDRA, nature communes with urban living. Its design creates an open space environment and relaxing surroundings

9.SERENDRA is a serene and tranquil place where adults can take leisurely walks while enjoying the scenery around its vast gardens

10.SERENDRA is a place where children can roam around freely in a safe and secure environment

11.SERENDRA will feature walkways and jogging paths in the middle of its vast gardens extending from one end to the other

12.SERENDRA has dry and wet ponds in the middle garden

13.SERENDRA combines the best of both worlds – a tranquil place with lush greenery and wide open spaces and being accessible to the major business districts, prestigious schools, high caliber hospitals, and malls.

14.SERENDRA’S living spaces are designed for real family living

15.SERENDRA is at the center of the 3 top hospital in the Philippines - Asian Hospital, Makati
Medical City and the New St. Lukes Hospital; making it a great half-way home for doctors

16.SERENDRA features the Piazza – A Greenbelt type commercial area containing upscale shops, boutiques and restaurants. All of which are few steps away from the resident’s doorstep

17.SERENDRA’S Piazza will be composed of 3 themed sections – the Continental, the Oriental and the Filipino-Spanish

18.SERENDRA’S parking slots are located at the 3-level basement – making SERENDRA a pedestrian friendly, serene and pollution free environment

19.SERENDRA’S sprawling, curvilinear and multi-level structural layouts follow the European building tradition

20.SERENDRA’S facade is reminiscent of the ancestral Bahay na Bato

21.SERENDRA offers low density living; only 3-6 units to a floor per sub-section

22.SERENDRA is a high quality project that will be maintained by the best in the Philippines – Ayala Property Management Corporation (APMC)

23.SERENDRA, like all Ayala developed properties, buyers will be assured that it will be well maintained and extremely secure especially with the management of the APMC

24.SERENDRA is the only residential site surrounded with stone and trellis garden structures and enveloped by a secured perimeter fence

25.SERENDRA’S boasts a topnotch leisure and recreational facilities

26.SERENDRA features country club-like amenities

27.SERENDRA has 7 swimming pools

28.SERENDRA has 2 clubhouses

29.SERENDRA has covered basketball courts

30.SERENDRA has covered badminton courts

31.SERENDRA has fitness centers overlooking the gardens

32.SERENDRA has it’s own spa

33.SERENDRA has function and social halls for events and parties

34.SERENDRA’S function rooms that open up to a Grand Veranda perfect for al fresco barbecue parties

35.SERENDRA has game rooms, galleries, day care centers, teen activity nodes and children’s play areas

36.Majority of SERENDRA units offer garden view

37.SERENDRA features a Tropical garden containing different varieties of heliconia, true bird of paradise and ginger plants

38.SERENDRA’S Oriental Garden has fookien tea and podocarpus maki among others

39.SERENDRA’S Scented garden features shrubs such as sampaguita, rosal and kamuning

40.SERENDRA’S Pink Garden contains Red Acalypha, Pink Calachuchi, Red Carebian and Pink Tabebuia

41.SERENDRA’S Yellow Garden will be full of yellow calachuchi, varicgated spider lily and yellow iris

42.SERENDRA’S White Garden features Kamuning, Rosal and Doña Aurora

43.SERENDRA’S Herb Garden allows residents to pick some leaves for their rice or tea

44.SERENDRA’S has 2 districts; designed to cater to a wide range of preference

45.SERENDRA’S district 1 is composed of bigger, more spacious units (1-3 Bedroom units; 75-300 sqm)

46.SERENDRA’S district 2 offers the functional, regular sized units (Studio, 1-3 Bedroom units; 37-120 sqm)

47.SERENDRA has 3 sections; Section A, B and C

48.SERENDRA’S Section A is only 6-9 floors high

49.SERENDRA’S Section B and C are 7-17 floors high

50.SERENDRA’S elevators are located evenly in every section to ensure convenience

51.SERENDRA’S unique interconnected pathways give residents the freedom to move about with ease

52.SERENDRA’S turnover for Section A will be on the 2nd qtr of 2007

53.SERENDRA’S turnover for Section B will be on the 1st qtr of 2008 for District 2 and 4th qtr of 2007 for district 1

54.SERENDRA’S turnover for Section C will be on the 4th qtr of 2008

55.SERENDRA is located within Fort Bonifacio, Global City

56.SERENDRA is just across a newly opened Ayala Mall (Metro Market! Market!)

57.SERENDRA is just 10 minutes away from Makati Central Business District and Ayala Center (Glorietta and Greenbelt)

58.SERENDRA is just a few minutes away from the Ortigas Business District

59.SERENDRA is only 3 minutes away from the new St. Luke’s Medical Center

60.SERENDRA is 10 minutes away from various exclusive schools such as Colegio San Agustin (CSA); Assumption College, International School (IS), British School and Japanese School

61.SERENDRA is just 10 minutes away from Rockwell and the Powerplant mall

62.SERENDRA is a few minutes away from the Ninoy Aquino international airport (NAIA) and the domestic airport

63.SERENDRA is 2 minutes away from Pricemart – a membership grocery

64.SERENDRA is 2 minutes away from Home depot – a furniture and hardware shop

65.SERENDRA is 3 minutes away from Adidas Sports Camp

66.SERENDRA is 3 minutes away from the Fort Strip – a chain of upscale restaurants and bars

67.SERENDRA is 5 minutes away from Manila Golf club

68.SERENDRA is 5 minutes away from Manila Polo club

69.SERENDRA’S neighboring villages are Forbes Park and Dasmarinas village

70.SERENDRA’S foreign architectural consultant is the internationally awarded Moore Ruble and Yudell Architects Planners

71.SERENDRA’S architectural consultant for its country club like amenities is the well renowned LV Locsin and Partners

72.SERENDRA has 2 architectural groups (GF and Partners for District 1 and RMJM Phils for district 2); This is to ensure that high level of quality is maintained and that the turn over of the project will be on time or even earlier

73.SERENDRA’S foreign landscape master plan consultant is Mia Lehrer and Associates

74.SERENDRA’S plumbing and sanitary is handled by N.B. Franco

75.SERENDRA mechanical engineer group is RJ Calpo and partners

76.SERENDRA’S project manager is Design Coordinates Inc

77.SERENDRA structural engineer group is Aromin, Sy and Associates Inc.

78.SERENDRA electrical engineer group is Mojica and Partners

79.SERENDRA’S quantity surveyor is David Langdon Seah Phils Inc

80.SERENDRA’S parking consultant is International Parking Design

81.SERENDRA’S feng shui consultants are Master Charlie Chao and Master Joseph Chau

82.SERENDRA has installment plans on payment terms – both short and long-term options

83.SERENDRA’S payment term could be customized according to your convenience.

84.SERENDRA offers a highly competitive SPOT CASH option – giving buyer’s discount as high as 15%

85.SERENDRA offers 0% interest on specific deferred payment options

86.SERENDRA offers investment terms as low as 10% Downpayment

87.SERENDRA offers long term investment options – 5 to 10 years to pay

88.SERENDRA is a marriage of the best that urban and suburban living has to offer

89.SERENDRA can be your primary home

90.SERENDRA will appreciate in value especially upon turnover of units.

91.SERENDRA can be your retirement home because everything is within your reach.

92.SERENDRA could be a world all your own. Relax. Enjoy the moment. Find your place in the sun. In a private space that’s made for living and leisure, a special place that has it all.

93.SERENDRA can be your first Real estate investment

94.SERENDRA is 65% green… 100% relaxing

95.SERENDRA is 65% green… 100% home

96.In SERENDRA, children can play with their paper boats the way their parents used to when they were kids

97.SERENDRA can be acquired by any Filipino citizen, any foreign national, and corporations, co-buyers or by Filipinos based abroad.

98.SERENDRA welcomes international buyers, locally, internationally.

99.SERENDRA’S model units are available for viewing (by appointment) at the 26th street at the Bonifacio Global City, Taguig

100. SERENDRA IS suburban living in the city.

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www.filbenrealty.com
espirituangie@yahoo.com
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FULFILLED PROMISE OF GOOD LIFE FOR YOU AT ONE SERENDRA

By TANYA T. LARA

AT HOME WITH FRANKIE & CANDY VARONA

Travels around the world: Jar from Jerusalem, glass-blown Tulip from Sweden, and
stone figurine from the Easter Island brought home by the Varonas’son Franco.

Empty nesters with a full world: At home in One Serendra are Frankie and Candy
Varona with their son Franco who’s visiting. “The best thing about living here is that I don’t need a car to enjoy going around,” says Franco, who loves the restaurants at Serendra and Fully Booked at Bonifacio High Street.How does your garden grow? The U-shaped Phase One of One Serendra features gardens planted with tropical trees and plants, walking paths, and a swimming pool.Loving the space: The spacious lobby of One Serendra. “We’ve had guests from Canada and they love the whole development,” says Frankie. “We eat out and then we bring them through the gate and suddenly it’s serene. That’s the first question they ask, isn’t it noisy
here? Not at all!”

The dining room with its Restoration furniture “handed down”by their daughter elizza when she left for Tokyo with her family.“It helps that the kids are global, they have good taste. Kami nagmamana.”

Home at last: After 20 years in Canada , Frankie and Candy Varona came home 12 years ago and last year moved into One Serendra.Every Friday the couple still goes out on a date — and once he took her to watch a Pacquiao fight at a movie house in Market! Market!

Living space: The Varonas’ living room opens up to a balcony, one of two in the unit.
Majority of the units in One Serendra have balconies; in the East Tower section, all units will have balconies.Picture perfect: Franco Varona’s photos of
Turkey, Jerusalem, Brazil and Peru are displayed along the corridor-cum-mini gallery of the Varona home.Fish be with you: Each fighting fish has its own bowl to survive.
Red room:The powder room with its bold paint and matching red toilet paper. The
lighting fixture under the sink is by artist Shoku Matsumoto. They lived in Canada for 20 years and raised their two children there,at first in Vancouver and then in Toronto.There was a time when they would move houses every year. So, when Filipino
couple Frankie and Candy Varona came back to the Philippines 12 years ago, Candy says she prayed all the novenas that this would be the last move, that this time “home” would finally be right here in the country.

Like many baby boomers today,Frankie and Candy are empty nesters. The couple was then living in a townhouse in Palm Village. “I tried to interest her in Alabang because the villages there are very North American except in a tropical setting. Then One Serendra came. At first, she wasn’t interested and I didn’t push it.”
“I still wanted a townhouse or a duplex,and I was afraid of living in a high-rise,”
explains Candy.

But One Serendra is unique in many ways. It is a high-end development by Ayala Land Premier (ALP), but it is not strictly a high-rise; while it is surrounded
by commercial establishments and office buildings, it is “protected” by vast greenery
— 65 percent of the six-hectare development is devoted to open space and only
35 percent to buildings. Its masterplan calls for low-, mid- and high-rise phases.
The low-density development also means serenity in the surroundings and not just
in one’s unit — and fewer people in the common areas such as the lobbies, gym
and gardens.So the more the couple studied their options, the more enthusiastic Candy became about One Serendra. Bonifacio Global City, “the home of passionate minds,”answered all the couple’s needs — security,accessibility to Frankie’s office in Makati, world-class architecture, gardens,and amenities. Plus, it is home to a growing community of like minded individuals — people who have achieved success and
are enjoying its fruits.

According to Joel Cruz, ALP marketing officer, many of the buyers of One Serendra are empty nesters or down-sizers like the Varonas. “They deliberately choose to live in a condo for the security and size because they no longer want to maintain
a big house, but would still like to enjoy the warmth and comfort of a suburban home.”

Downsizing is nothing new to Candy. “I gave away a lot of things, I sold a bit and I donated. It was so liberating!” she says of the move to a condo. “I kept very few things, including my clothes. I just kept throwing and I would never look back at the piles.”“She forced me to throw away my books from grade school and high school,” adds Frankie with a laugh.In fact, their 170-square-meter, three-bedroom unit is designed along Zen lines — a quiet space with only select pieces from their
children’s travels occupying the living and dining rooms.Life at One Serendra is as it was promised when it was a master plan still: You just need to go down to the restaurants to meet up with friends, you just need to cross the street to get to Bonifacio High Street for some shopping, or the other side for Market! Market! for value shopping,movies and groceries.“I used to do my groceries in Makati,but then I discovered Metro Supermarketin Market! Market!, which has complete choices and also carries a lot of Canadian
products.”

As for their favorite stores, both are partial to Fully Booked and A Different
Bookstore. Frankie jokes that whenever Candy has her friends over (she is an
alumna of four schools and is rebonding with childhood friends after years of being
away), he is banished to the bookstore so “he wouldn’t hear the chismis.” One thing that the couple truly enjoys about life at One Serendra is the restaurant selection. Every Friday night they go out on a date, which they have been doing for the past 30 years and is still a “nonnegotiable”arrangement. Their favorite dating places? Mamou, Aubergine and Le Souffle for Candy; Abe for Frankie.It’s a far cry from their life in Canada,where their days were occupied by work and meals were cooked once a week and frozen. Frankie says he is thankful that the first part of their life together was spent in Canada because there they raised children who are at home in the world and can survive anywhere. “We became close to our family since everybody else was busy,” Frankie says. “When you’re in your 30s and living here, there are a lot of distractions that you lose your balance when it comes to career and family. You tend to spend a lot more time in the office and can get really lost building your career,and when you’re trying to rebuild your family bonds, it is too late.”

Today, they are living the second part of their life together — the children have
left home, the three grandchildren are growing, the world is becoming a more
interesting place to travel around — this time for leisure.

And they are back home.
Candy describes life at One Serendra as having “the best of both worlds.”
And obviously still the best of times.

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ONE SERENDRA-PROMISE FULFILLED

Its 7:10am and i’m feeling hungry :-) Rene and Madel,my cousins are preparing breakfast. Hmmm..i can smell coffee.Tita is still asleep.

I am at Serendra right now, my first time to sleep at the Fort Bonifacio Global City, it turned out to be a great Serendra Ayala community. Just across us is Market Market, a mall with almost everything you will ever need from shopping to marketing food to cook or ready to eat.

Sometime in 1997, i had a neighbor (turned close friend Gem) where i lived that time in Magallanes Village, Makati, worked with FBDC- Fort Bonifacio Global City and so i saw this place still being developed…no buildings, just bulldozers running going around creating roads. Their office then was right beside Manila Golf, probably the most exclusive golf course in the Philippines.

Today, after 12 years, there are a lot of Residential Towers, Office Towers, an International School, a Top of the line Hospital and a string of fine restaurants, stores and what have you. In 1997, i remember Le Souffle as the only restaurant we go to in here. Now, there are sooo many nice restaurants at the Serendra Promenade and practically all over.

The Global City has been dubbed one of the Best Master planned Community in Asia, another achievement the Philippines can be very proud of.

I heard its now the AYALA Group who is in charge of the entire Global City. Well, the very unit i am now is Serendra by Ayala Land.

I believe this is one the best location to invest in a Real Estate Property, value appreciation for a condo here is very promising.

Just for instance, this unit we are at in Serendra, a 1 BR unit being rented by Tita at P 86K/month (USD 1,800), which probably just cost P 5M when they started selling. if you do the math, you can earn your investment back in 5 years and yet have a property that has increased in value, and rental income for the rest of the time is more than profit.

Congrats to FBDC and AYALA for this wonderful place named One Serendra.

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