Pag-IBIG Fund released P76.94 billion in home loans in the first eight months of 2023, breaking its record on the highest home loan disbursement for January to August, top officials said Friday.
“We are happy to report that Pag-IBIG Fund has once again set a record high in terms of home loan releases during the first eight months of the year. The sustained growth of our home loans mean that more and more Filipino workers are being helped by Pag-IBIG Fund to have homes they can call their own. This is one of our ways to heed the call of President Marcos to provide sustainable and inclusive housing for Filipinos,” said Secretary Jose Rizalino L. Acuzar, who heads the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development and the 11-member Pag-IBIG Fund board of trustees.
Acuzar said the amount in the eight-month period was P4.23 billion, or 6 percent higher than P72.71 billion released in the same period in 2022, and financed 59,840 homes of Pag-IBIG Fund members. He said of the total, 7,450 or 12 percent are members from the minimum-wage and low-income sectors who were able to secure P3.15 billion in socialized home loans.
Pag-IBIG Fund chief executive Marilene Acosta said the agency expects to sustain its performance for the remainder of the year, driven by the agency’s move to lower its home loan rates in July.
“We thank our members for choosing and trusting the Pag-IBIG Housing Loan to help them achieve their dream of homeownership. We assure our borrowers that we shall do all that we can to maintain the low rates of their loans and keep their monthly payments affordable. This is because we at Pag-IBIG Fund highly value sustainability, so that our current borrowers can maintain their ability to pay their loans and allow even more members to avail of our home financing programs,” she said.
“With four months to go before we end the year, we are optimistic that we shall once again set a banner year in the home loan front, and thus empower more Filipinos to become homeowners,” Acosta said.