Once a dormant mining and oil exploration company, Belle Corporation shifted focus towards property development in 1989.  Willy N. Ocier, the company’s current Vice Chairman, for sometime had been dreaming of one day developing an upscale resort in one of Luzon’s favorite weekend getaways. Then a successful stockbroker, Mr. Ocier spent his free afternoons driving to breezy Tagaytay to enjoy the clean air and at the same time, look for properties. It was then that he chanced upon a 360-hectare pristine site overlooking the majestic Taal Lake, which now forms part of the country’s premier destination for luxury living—the Tagaytay Highlands.

 

Today, Belle is the leading Philippine developer of high-end residential and leisure properties. Its developments are located in a recreational area comprising mountains, rolling hills, and lakeshore about 90 minutes south of Manila in Tagaytay City and Batangas province, with spectacular views of Taal Lake and the surrounding countryside.

 

The Belle Group owns approximately 1,280 hectares of land around existing finished and in-process projects, on which it will develop future projects over at least the next five years without the need for substantial new land acquisitions.

 

"I do what I do because of the fulfillment of being able to build structures and reshape landscapes that will forever be there, and being able to maintain these well so that these become part of other people’s lives," Mr. Ocier said.

 

 

MILESTONES

1989	Belle, a dormant mining and oil exploration company, shifted focus towards property development and started the Tagaytay Highlands resort complex.
1994	Opening of the Tagaytay Highlands Golf Club.
1995	Completion of Pinecrest Village.
1996	Completion of Tagaytay Highlands Country Club. Completion of The Villas.
1998	Completion of the Belle View condominiums. Start of delivery of Woodlands units to homeowners.
1999	Inauguration of the Tagaytay Midlands Golf Club.
2000	Completion of The Alta Mira at Tagaytay Midlands.
2001	Inauguration of The Spa and Lodge.
2002	Completion of the Lakeview Heights at Tagaytay Midlands.
2003	Development started for Phase 1 of Plantation Hills at the Greenlands.
2004	Development started for The Parks at Saratoga Hills. Development started for Phases 2 and 3 of Plantation Hills.
2005	Plantation Hills Phases 1 to 3 fully completed. Development started for Phase 5 of Plantation Hills.
2006	Development started for the Verandas at Saratoga Hills.
2007	Development started for the Lakeside Fairways.
2008	Development of the fifth cluster of Lakeside Fairways, Cotswold.
2009	Launch of Katsura, the sixth cluster of the Lakeside Fairways. Delivery of Kew Gardens, Lakeside Fairways.