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Seloza vs. Onshore Strategic Assets

GAYDEN A. SELOZA, PETITIONER, VS. ONSHORE STRATEGIC ASSETS (SPV-AMC), INC., RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 227889 | 2020-09-28

THIRD DIVISION
 
DECISION
 
LEONEN, J.:
 
A lot buyer may seek to annul a real estate mortgage before the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, which has exclusive jurisdiction over complaints of unsound real estate business practices. This, however, precludes one from seeking before the trial court an annulment of the extrajudicial foreclosure proceedings. Otherwise, as the second suit would arise from the same cause of action and parties as the first action, it would constitute forum shopping by way of litis pendentia.

This Court resolves the Petition for Review on Certiorari[1] filed by Gayden Seloza (Seloza)...