Insights
Reading for a considered purchase.
Short, sourced pieces from the property, investment and legal-liaison desks. They sit alongside — not on top of — the foreign-buyer guide and the investor notes, and every legal-topic piece carries the same reminder that it is general information, not legal advice.
Investment
- InvestmentGross vs net yield: what actually eats your returnGross yield is the headline; net yield is what is left after the building, the letting and the taxman have taken their share. This note defines both, lists the costs that separate them, and works one deliberately hypothetical example — labelled illustrative and before income tax — so you can read a yield figure for what it is rather than what it looks like.25 July 20269 min read
- InvestmentThe real risks of Bangkok condo investmentA balanced, sourced account of what can actually go wrong: submarket oversupply, developer and completion risk, thin resale liquidity, currency exposure, vacancy, and the foreign quota that applies again when you sell. No forecast, no promise that prices rise.25 July 20269 min read
- InvestmentRenting out your condo from abroad: management, duties and getting the rent homeThe realistic options for managing a Thai rental while you live overseas, what a manager does for the fee, and the two obligations that stay yours wherever you are — the TM30 immigration notification and income tax. Sourced to the Immigration Bureau and the Revenue Department.25 July 20269 min read
- InvestmentCurrency and FX risk when you own a Thai condo from abroadYour Thai unit earns baht, but if you budget, save or spend in another currency, the exchange rate sits between that rent and your real return. What FX movement does to an owner's return, how to remit rent and sale proceeds, and the honest limits of hedging — with no FX or investment advice.25 July 20268 min read
- InvestmentSelling and taking your money out: the foreign owner's exitSelling a Thai condominium as a foreign owner is a documented chain: agree a buyer, register the transfer, pay the charges, and remit the proceeds abroad. The most important document was issued the day you bought — here is how the chain connects, from the decision to sell to the money reaching your home account.25 July 20269 min read
- InvestmentFreehold vs leasehold for investors: control, resale, financing and successionFor an investor, freehold and leasehold decide four things — control, resale, financing and succession — and the difference is structural. Freehold is a perpetual title; leasehold is a registered right for up to thirty years under section 540 of the Civil and Commercial Code.25 July 20268 min read
- InvestmentDirect condo ownership vs a Thai property fund or REIT: which fits you?Owning a condominium and holding units in a Thai property fund or REIT are two different ways into Thai real estate, not close substitutes. This sets them side by side on control, liquidity, entry cost, diversification, income and — for a foreigner — who is allowed to hold what. A comparison, not advice, with no projected returns.25 July 20269 min read
- InvestmentOff-plan as an investment: what you are really buyingBuying off-plan trades a lower entry price and a staged payment schedule against construction and completion risk. Here is how the payment plans work, what the law makes the contract protect, why your money is rarely in escrow, and how the cash flow and timing differ from buying a finished unit — with no promise of resale profit.25 July 20267 min read
Insights
Start with the fundamentals
These pieces assume the ownership rules the foreign-buyer guide sets out, and the machinery the investor notes explain. If any of it is new, begin there.