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A condominium unit, yes: freehold and in your own name, as long as the building's foreign quota has room, because foreigners may own at most 49% of the total floor area of the units in a project. Land, no. A foreign individual cannot own land, so a villa is bought as a building on leased land, with a registered lease of up to 30 years.

With money from abroad. The price has to arrive in Thailand in foreign currency and be converted to baht by the receiving Thai bank, which issues the Foreign Exchange Transaction form (FET) the Land Office asks for before it registers the unit in a foreign name. Send it from your own account, with the project and unit in the payment reference, and keep every FET: you will need them again when you sell.

No. Thai law caps a lease of land at 30 years, and the Supreme Court has held that renewal options agreed in advance to stretch a lease beyond 30 years are void, even when they were prepaid and registered. The first registered term of up to 30 years is secure; anything after it is a promise a court may not enforce. The 99-year lease announced as a government proposal in June 2024 has not become law.

At the Land Office on the transfer day: a 2% transfer fee, commonly split between buyer and seller by agreement; a 3.3% specific business tax or a 0.5% stamp duty, normally the seller's; and the seller's withholding income tax. Who pays what is written into the sale agreement, so we quote each developer's own split. The reduced 0.01% transfer fee is for Thai buyers only. Each year a holiday or rental condominium pays land and building tax of about 0.02% of its appraised value.

Not without a licence. Under the Hotel Act, paid stays shorter than a month count as a hotel business, and a court fined owners at a Hua Hin condominium for exactly that in 2018. Many buildings also ban stays under 30 days. Rental programmes that legally offer nightly stays run through a building or an operator that holds a hotel licence. Leases of a month or longer are outside the Hotel Act.

Not by itself. The Long-Term Resident visa can count at least US$500,000 invested in Thai property toward its Wealthy Global Citizen category, which also asks for US$1 million in assets. Since October 2025 a completed condominium unit worth at least THB 3 million, in your own name, can support a renewable one-year extension of stay with a Ministry of Tourism and Sports certification; the route is new and its rules are still settling. Thailand Privilege is a paid membership visa, from THB 650,000, and has nothing to do with property.

They are different markets. Bangkok is the city of the BTS lines, the central business district and the riverside, and it registered nearly half of all foreign condominium transfers in 2025. Phuket is the island of beaches and resorts: about 83% of the homes for sale there in early 2025 were condominiums, and long-term asking rents averaged about THB 22,500 a month for a one-bedroom condominium in April 2025, by C9 Hotelworks' count.

Nothing to the buyer. Our commission is paid by the developer, so you pay the same price as buying direct. Transfer fees and taxes are separate and set out in full before you sign, and we recommend your own independent Thai lawyer for the title search and the contract.