Before buying any property in the Philippines, one should conduct the due diligence required of them and ensure that the property to be purchased is clean from any liens and encumbrances. Due diligence is “such a measure of prudence, activity, or assiduity, as is properly to be expected from, and ordinarily exercised by, a reasonable and prudent man under the particular circumstances; not measured by any absolute standard, but depending on the relative facts of the special ca