Lopez's Iloilo property under dispute?

"Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty."
--John Adams

By Alex P. Vidal

NEW YORK CITY -- If there is smoke, there is fire.
Alberto "Tito" Relucio-Lopez III or "Tito Lopez," scion of the Lopez clan in Iloilo City, Philippines, bemoaned in a Facebook post on January 7, 2018 that he was "against" any attempt to sell a prime property that belongs to his late uncle, Fernando "Nonoy Junji" Javellana-Lopez, Jr.
"Don't touch something that's not yours," was the strong diatribe Tito Lopez, eldest son of former Iloilo second district Rep. Albertito Lopez and former Guimaras Governor Emily Relucio-Lopez, wanted to send to an unnamed person or persons. "I grew up there."
The post, accompanied by several photos of what looked like a house painted in white with several persons believed to be hired to clean its exterior area, generated many reactions from Tito Lopez's Facebook friends.
Zedrick Delgado Señeres, one of Western Visayas' well-read society columnists, commented that the house was probably only being renovated and decorated for a forthcoming occasion and could not be up for sale.
Tito Lopez's controversial post disappeared after several hours.

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Tito Lopez, who now resides in Makati City, could be referring to a spacious residential house located on the right side of the compound's main structure, "White House" (not the Nelly's Garden in Jaro), from the main gate on Gen. Luna Street, La Paz, Iloilo City.
White House, one of Iloilo's famous landmarks and adjacent to the ABS-CBN Iloilo station, is owned by Tito Lopez's parents.
That house on the right side was owned by the late Junji Lopez Jr., third in six siblings of the late former Philippine Vice President Fernando "Toto Nanding" Hofileña Lopez Sr. (April 13, 1904 -- May 26, 1993).
It's a stone throw away from the controversial "Pink House" owned by Junji's brother, Emmanuele "Nikki" Lopez, which was burned on October 25, 2015.
On the "Pink House's" right is another Iloilo landmark, the "Boat House," owned by the late ABS-CBN Corporation founder Eugenio H. Lopez Sr.
When Junji Lopez, who died in 2005, was alive, he told a group of selected media friends, including this writer, that he wanted to give the house to his favorite niece, Alana Lopez-Montelibano, and his favorite nephew, Tito Lopez, when he's gone.
The house's current ownership couldn't be ascertained.
It wasn't clear if Alana Lopez-Montelibano, now a prominent socialite in the Philippines, was aware of the purported attempt to sell, or just renovate, the house that became the source of Tito Lopez's abrupt Facebook rant.