Real Estate in Thailand

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Thailand separates land from buildings. Foreigners cannot own land, but they can hold a condominium freehold outright in their own name, subject to a building-wide cap: no more than 49 percent of a block’s saleable floor area may be foreign owned. For a villa or a plot the routes are a long leasehold or a Thai company structure, and the company route has come under increasing nominee enforcement.

That makes condominium freehold the one unambiguously durable structure for most international buyers. Demand concentrates in Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Pattaya and Koh Samui. Ask for the foreign quota position of the specific building before you commit, because it is checked at the Land Department on transfer day.