Guides to buying property in Thailand

Yes — foreigners can buy property in Thailand, but the law splits the market in two.

You have chosen an apartment. The seller sends payment details and asks for a deposit to hold the price.

Buying in Thailand is easier than paying for it. The transaction itself takes a few days; getting the money from your home bank to the developer's account takes anywhere from a…

For a freehold condominium purchase, budget separately for the property price, transfer costs and setup.

Developer installment plans in Phuket are interest-free payment schedules offered on off-plan property: instead of paying the full price at once, the buyer pays the developer in…

Yes — a foreign national can own a condominium in Phuket outright, in their own name, with a title deed registered at the Thai Land Department.

Buying an apartment or a villa in Thailand gives you no visa, no residence permit and no citizenship.

For most buyers, yes — provided "worth it" is defined narrowly.

The median asking price across aperwind's 571 listings on Phuket is THB 10.2M.

The aperwind catalogue contains 148 villas on Phuket. Published villa asking prices run from THB 4.2M to THB 280M, with a median of THB 29.0M.

A budget is almost always named in the buyer's own currency — “we have 150 thousand dollars”, “we have 250”.

The asking price and the transfer fee get you into the deal. What follows is a bill that arrives every month: the building's service charge, electricity, water, internet.

Phuket is a small island that behaves like several different ones.

The catalogue median asking price is THB 12.3M in Bang Tao and THB 11.3M in Kamala. Alongside budget, compare the properties available and how you intend to use the purchase.

Laguna Phuket is not a district. It is a private resort estate on Bang Tao beach — roughly three square kilometres of hotels, golf, lagoons and residential land assembled by…

There are two honest answers to this question, and which one is yours depends on what the purchase has to do.

Phuket and Pattaya solve different problems for a property buyer.

Almost nobody chooses between two Phuket apartments. They choose between Phuket and another country — usually Bali, Bangkok, Vietnam, Dubai, Florida or Cyprus.

Five things lose Phuket buyers, and the price tag is rarely one of them: the tsunami and the beachfront line, the length of the flight, the idea that Thailand is a wild country…

The enquiries that end in a purchase usually carry one thing the others do not: dates.

“Available immediately or within this year” and “a 2028 handover does not work for me” are two ways of asking the same question, and buyers ask it before any other.

Buyers arrive with a rule imported from another market. Callers from the Gulf tell us that in Dubai off-plan is priced above completed stock and resale trades far below it; buyers…

“Somewhere we can use during our winter months, come over for two or three months, and then rent out the rest of the year.” The wording changes from buyer to buyer, the plan does…

Most buyers describe the same plan: use the place for a few months a year, let it the rest of the time. The decisive question is rarely which district.

Phuket property makes money in two ways: rental income while you hold, and the difference between entry and exit price.