UBFHAI and the BF Homes Paranaque Subdivision

United BF Homeowners’ Associations, Inc. (UBFHAI) is the umbrella organization of all homeowners associations in the BF Homes Parañaque Subdivision, a seven hundred sixty five (765) hectare subdivision located in the south of Manila. It’s land area is so huge that it is considered as the biggest subdivision in Asia. There are at least 10,800 households and 71,400 residents in the subdivision, predominantly middle class. It’s so big that it straddles three cities (Paranaque, Las Pinas and Muntinlupa) and has three Congressmen, one for each city. It’s even bigger than some 4^th and 5^th class municipalities.

There are 76 homeowner associations comprising UBFHAI grouped into 15 sectors. Each sector is entitled to one seat in the Board of Directors. The homeowner associations elect among themselves a sector chairman to represent the sector in the Board of Directors. From the 15 members of the Board, the officers of the organization are elected, namely, the President, the Vice-President, the Corporate Secretary, the Treasurer, the Auditor, and the Press Relation Officer.

The BF Homes Paranaque Subdivision is a self-contained community. It has private schools (from pre-school to college), churches, fast food and fine dining restaurants, a wet market, shopping areas, supermarkets, gas stations, car repair shops, auto parts stores, computer stores and maintenance shops, clothes stores, shoe stores, barbershops, beauty shops / SPAs, sports and fitness centers, ballet and modern dance schools, and emergency clinics. It has basketball, tennis and badminton courts. You may not believe this but it even has polo fields (but no golf course). It used to have a movie house and a 4-star hotel.