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Belle Corp.’s first-quarter filing points to firmer gaming activity at City of Dreams Manila, suggesting the pressure that dogged Entertainment City through much of 2025 may be starting to ease — a signal investors will be watching closely ahead of Bloomberry’s own quarterly report. One of the earliest clues on how Metro Manila’s casino district began 2026 arrived not from a pure gaming operator, but from its landlord. Belle Corp., the property company tied to City of Dreams Manila, reported that its share in gaming revenue from the integrated resort rose 12% in the first quarter to ₱485.7 million , while lease income from the property held essentially steady at ₱587.6 million . For investors searching for signs that the Bay Area gaming market is finding firmer footing after a difficult 2025, that combination matters: the fixed real-estate income stayed intact, while the variable casino-linked piece improved. The figures do not give a full property-level income statement for City of D...

There is a temptation in markets to read a weaker year as a weaker business, but Belle Corporation’s 2025 results suggest something more nuanced: not a broken story, but a maturing one—still anchored on a premium leisure platform, still cash-generative, and still strategically positioned for the next cycle. In 2025, Belle posted consolidated revenues of about ₱5.29 billion and net income of about ₱2.11 billion , both lower year on year, with management explicitly attributing the softer performance largely to the gaming industry’s underperformance during the period. Yet the real message in the numbers is not merely that earnings eased, but that Belle’s economic center of gravity remains remarkably intact. The company’s lease revenues from City of Dreams Manila amounted to roughly ₱2.35 billion , while its gaming revenue share from the integrated resort contributed about ₱1.90 billion in 2025, meaning these two lines alone still represented around 80% of group revenues . That is not a...