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PART 1: Hello, the scenery you are viewing on screen is the beautiful island of Palawan. It is an award-winning province in the Philippines that has 1,780 islands and the world-famous islands are next to each other or within half an hour ferry ride such as San Vicente, Coron, Puerto Princesa, El Nido islands, and Broke’s Point, and many more. Palawan is famous as a sanctuary island because it boasts stunning lagoons, white sand beaches, rocky islets, towering limestone cliffs, and glasslike water teeming with marine life. El Nido Island in Palawan is awarded as 2nd Best Island in the world by the travel website Big World 7 and other tourism websites as well as CNN in 2014. The islands in Palawan have earned praises from around the world. As result, the property value in Palawan is continuing to rise up. In the past, El Nido, Coron, and San Vicente were offered at 5 pesos per square meter, and in the year 2022, the appreciation value is between $2,000 to 50,000 US dollars per square meter in prime locations where the luxury resorts are located. This is similar to the appreciation value in Boracay where lands used to be affordable in the 1990s and in 2022, a condominium at 50 square meters could be sold from 20,000 to 30,000 US dollars per square and one unit could be sold at 1 million to 2 million dollars at only one time payments are supported at purchase. PART 2: Understanding the history, economic growth, and innovation in property investment. Kathleen Martinez, an ASEAN scholar, lawyer, and private investor, did a calculated risk to purchase real estate in remote areas in the south region of the Philippines. After learning about the infrastructure and aggressive development plans in the region. She understands that after living abroad for 2 decades returning to her home country will be challenging to deploy a project as she doesn’t have a team, resources, and network to build what she has in mind. Being away from her loved ones was slowly causing her loneliness but she picked up herself because doing what matters in times of stress is what she needs. She diverted her loneliness for coping with adversity and use her valuable research skills that can analyze and assess information from multiple sources. Her critical thinking and problem-solving help her overcome unforeseen challenges and find solutions to unconventional problems. She structured the content of the data and evaluates what she can do with it. She applied validation rules to cleanse data before use to help mitigate scenarios; it is a programmer mindset that can build various types of validation into a program to understand the essential data and reduce the risk that if incorrectly, input data may crash a program. This method of data validation was quite time-consuming, and it took her half a year or more from the beginning of the pandemic but ensuring the integrity of data helps to ensure the legitimacy of her conclusions will be a sense of achievement. Kathleen is not working for money, because money has no end-point. She works for her vision and is passionate about building a sustainable business to support the generations of her family, a goal since young coming from a middle-class family. Hence from an economic and legal perspective, she purchases properties with past due property, tax bills, and tax penalties, understands the process of trade-off, and offers to owners the power to hold out for excessive prices. She proposed a remedy in the form of helping them clear in their legal and financial matter and extends the assistance on their requirements that crucial work, but can be modern literature on the mechanism, design and related investment approach in law and economics, which was initiated by Vickery's contribution to refine our understanding of the monopoly problem with private owned estates and explored ways in which markets can be designed to mitigate it. From a standpoint, it was not easy to make a valuation of the property that depends heavily on investments, and local culture is difficult for an outsider to observe who is educated abroad. PART 3 Her understanding of legal and technological infrastructure has supported her decision to invest in assets in undeveloped areas with outstanding issues but have potential appreciation value, which is a theory she learned from Harberger about monopoly and taxes during her economics class at MBA. While she enjoyed the simplicity of life in the province, there were power outages, restricted access to water, and a poor Internet network, and she could not access her ATM cards, she decided to return to the capital city. The struggles and unstable situation were frustrating but she treated her temper like her family, she ain’t tryna lose it. They are the reason why she started her dream. Back in Manila, she waited until the right time will come to build the estates. And the right time is now after learning that her research on infrastructure in the region will have economic growth in a year or two after the pandemic is valid. Recently it was reported that a local billionaire invested 40 billion pesos in Palawan province, an investment equivalent to 797 million us dollars. The billionaire is giving back to the community to recover from the economic loss during the pandemic. The project will feature hotels, resorts, residences on islands, spas, schools, shop houses, cultural centers, and as well as private villas. The development project was followed by other investors who have the objective to build the sustainable infrastructure of Palawan, a rise up from the south.