Forbes Posts Details about Businesses of Manny Villar, his Net Worth
MANNY VILLAR – The business giant and former Senator is the richest Filipino in Forbes List of 50 Wealthiest People in the Philippines.
Every year, Forbes releases lists of the wealthiest individuals in the different countries across the globe. For several years now, the name of former Senator and business giant Manuel Villar remain on the list of the richest people in the Philippines.
Manuel Villar or more popularly known as Manny Villar, aside from being a business giant, has also been part of the Philippine government. He is a former senator and has ran for the presidency in 2010 but lost to the late former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.
Since his presidential loss, Villar stepped out from the government and focused on his businesses and investments. His wife, Cynthia Villar, is one of the incumbent senators in the upper chamber but she is already serving her last term as a lawmaker in the Senate. She is running for congresswoman of Las Piñas City in the upcoming May 2025 Elections.
Recently, Forbes released its list of the 50 wealthiest people in the Philippines and Manny Villar remains the richest individual Filipino in the list. The billionaire has a net worth of $17 billion as of today, April 2, 2025. Villar was also the richest Filipino billionaire in 2024.
Through the years, the net worth of the chairman of property developer Vista Land & Lifescapes has been taking an upward trend. Here’s a recall of the previous net worth of the business giant:
- 2016 — $1.3 billion
- 2017 — $1.5 billion
- 2018 — $3 billion
- 2019 — $5.5 billion
- 2020 — $5.6 billion
- 2021 — $7.2 billion
- 2022 — $8.3 billion
- 2023 — $8.6 billion
- 2024 — $11 billion
- 2025 — $17.2 billion
Manny Villar has at least six (6) listed entities including the property developer Golden MV Holdings, property landlord VistaREIT, mall operator Vistamalls, home improvement chain AllHome, Premiere Island Power REIT, and supermarket chain AllDay Marts. Here are the net worth of the other richest people in the Philippines as per Forbes:
- Enrique Razon Jr. — net worth $10.9 billion
- Ramon Ang — net worth $3.7 billion
- Lucio Tan — net worth $3 billion
- Henry Sy Jr. — net worth $2.3 billion
- Hans Sy — net worth $2.2 billion
- Herbert Sy — net worth $2.1 billion
- Harley Sy — net worth $1.9 billion
- Teresita Sy-Coson — net worth $1.9 billion
- Elizabeth Sy — net worth $1.7 billion
- Andrew Tan — net worth $1.6 billion
- Lucio Co — net worth $1.4 billion
- Susan Co — net worth $1.3 billion
- Tony Tan Caktiong — net worth $1.3 billion
- Eusebio Tanco — net worth $1.2 billion