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Property Company of Friends

Real estate developer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ20726284
Source-derived summary

Property Company of Friends, Inc., commonly known as Pro-Friends is a real estate company in the Philippines owned by Guillermo Choa. It is engaged in low-cost housing and condominium development. Its projects are on Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Its banner project is Lancaster New City, which occupies three towns in Cavite from Kawit, Imus, and General Trias. It has applied for its IPO under its holding entity, Amicus Holdings, which in turn has its subsidiary, Williamton, to handle in-house financing at second quarter of 2014 but was abandoned since March 2015.

History

Property Company of Friends, Inc. was established in 1999. Constructing homes with precast concrete technology.

Projects

Avignon Place – Imus, Cavite

Bellefort Estates – Bacoor, Cavite

California West Hills – Imus

Carmona Estates – Carmona, Cavite, Biñan, Laguna

Cedar Residences – Carmona, Cavite

Chateau Real – General Trias, Cavite

Chesapeake Village – Imus, Cavite

Garden Grove Village – Dasmariñas, Cavite

Greensborough Subdivision – Dasmariñas, Cavite

Gold Crest Villas – Trece Martires, Cavite

Ilustrata Residences – Quezon City, Metro Manila

Jardin de Madrid Villas – Bacoor, Cavite

Lancaster New City – General Trias, Imus, Kawit, Cavite

Las Verandas Villas II – Imus, Cavite

Mahogany Mansion – Mandaluyong, Metro Manila

Montefaro Village – Imus, Cavite

Montecillo Villas – Pavia, Iloilo

North East Primarosa – Imus, Cavite

One Primerose Place – Mandaluyong, Metro Manila

Palm Grove Village – Imus, Cavite

Palms Lakeshore – Mexico, Pampanga

Parc Regency Residences – Pavia, Iloilo

Parc Regency Greens – Pavia, Iloilo

Parklane Country Homes – General Trias, Cavite

Primarosa Village – Imus, Cavite

Primavera Villas – Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija

Ridge Crest – Bacoor, Cavite

Rosewood Village – Bacoor, Cavite

Solare Estates – Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental

Silver Crest – Bacoor, Cavite

St. Joseph the Worker Village – General Trias, Cavite

University Executive Villas – Dasmariñas, Cavite

Villa de Alyssa – Imus, Cavite

Villa de Primarosa – Imus, Cavite

Ville de Palme – General Trias, Cavite

Ville de Soleil – Dasmariñas, Cavite

Windsor Mansions – Imus, Cavite

Subsidiaries

Profriends Group, Inc.

Editorial summary

“Property Company of Friends” enters the record as real estate developer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Property, Company and Friends can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2015, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Property, Company and Friends.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Property Company of Friends” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Property, Company and Friends provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20726284. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2015 and 1999.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Property Company of Friends” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.