On July 23, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. issued Administrative Order No. 45, reopening Metro Manila to new IT Centers and IT Parks for the first time since the AO No. 18 moratorium.
In my view, this removes the single biggest supply constraint on Manila’s office market and unlocks expansion decisions that the IT and business process management (IT-BPM) sector has been deferring for years.
Article continues after this advertisement
The supply problem was real
Demand was never the issue. The Philippine IT-BPM industry generated $40 billion in revenues and employed 1.9 million Filipinos as of end-2025, making it one of the country’s largest sources of foreign exchange and formal employment.FEATURED STORIES
