Fortis
Residences

Reading the price list

At Fortis, the biggest unit
is the cheapest floor area

Most condominium price lists punish you for buying small — the studio always costs the most per square metre, and the premium narrows as units get bigger. Fortis follows that rule more cleanly than any other DMCI project I sell, and the gap is wide enough to change what you should buy.

The single cheapest square metre at Fortis is a 152.5 sqm 3-Bedroom Type A end unit at ₱34,044,000 — ₱223,239 per sqm. The dearest is a 72.5 sqm 2-Bedroom at ₱20,779,000, which works out to ₱286,607 per sqm. That is a 28% spread inside the same building, and nobody points it out to you at the showroom.

The 91 sqm 2-Bedroom is the value floor plan

Inside the 2-Bedroom tier the ladder is not smooth. The 91 sqm layout starts at ₱22,310,000 = ₱245,165 per sqm — cheaper per square metre than the 72.5, the 86, the 93.5, the 95, the 100 and the 102. It also has the most stock: 107 of the 367 available 2-Bedroom units.

Orientation is not priced here — so choose it on merit

Every available unit is described on the price list as either a Front Unit facing East or a Rear Unit facing Northwest. Buyers agonise over that choice. The price list does not: across 367 two-bedroom units the average is ₱258,341 per sqm east-front against ₱257,275 north-west-rear — a difference of 0.4%. In the 3-Bedroom tier the east units are the marginally cheaper ones. Pick your side for the afternoon sun and the view you want, not to save money, because there is no money in it.

Where the units sit

Stock runs from the 2nd to the 37th floor. There is no 13th, which is why the top unit numbers read 37 while DMCI counts the building as 36 levels. The upper band is thin — 47 units across floors 33 to 37 — and the 3-Bedrooms are all end units, so the high-floor corner stock is the first thing that disappears.

Where the building actually is

Topped off, and 46.40% complete
as of June 2026

This is a pre-selling purchase, not a move-in, and the honest version matters at these prices. DMCI’s own published site-progress record puts Fortis Residences at 46.40% completion in June 2026, against a December 2027 turnover on every unit on the current list. The structure topped off — Chairman Consunji attended the ceremony on the roof deck — so what remains is fit-out, facade and systems rather than frame, which is the half that usually runs closer to schedule.

Read those photographs before you read the renders. Two things they tell you that the perspectives do not: the tower stands on a 7,200 sqm site with a single building on it, which is why the amenity decks are as generous as DMCI claims — and it sits directly beside the elevated highway corridor. That is the reason MRT-3 Magallanes is a 290-metre walk. It is also traffic noise on the lower east-facing floors, and you should stand in a unit before you sign.

The honest read

Who Fortis is for —
and who it is not

Against the nearest DMCI alternatives

The verdict. Fortis is the most expensive floor area DMCI sells in Metro Manila, and the premium is almost entirely the Makati postcode plus 290 metres to MRT-3 — not the finishes, which DMCI puts in most of its upper-tier towers. If Makati is a requirement, there is effectively nothing else in the DMCI catalogue: Brio Tower in Guadalupe Viejo is ready to move into and 22% cheaper per square metre, but it is down to five units and none of them are large. If Makati is a preference rather than a requirement, Oak Harbor Residences gets you a comparable ticket size in Parañaque that you can move into this year, and One Delta Terraces gets you into Quezon City for less than half the entry price.

My advice at Fortis is narrow and specific: buy the 91 sqm 2-Bedroom or the 152.5 sqm 3-Bedroom, and skip the 1-Bedroom entirely. Twenty-five one-bedroom units at ₱262,162 per square metre is the worst value in the building, and at ₱14.25M you are within reach of a two-bedroom that is better per square metre and far easier to resell.