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Skandi real Estate has now been operating in Hua Hin for 5 years, and we would like to share a bit of our vast experience.

As a general rule, foreigners are not allowed to buy land in Thailand, but if you establish a company, you now have the opportunity to buy property or land for your staff etc.

In order to establish a company you need to be at least 7 persons. These 7 people could be made up of 1 foreigner and 6 Thai, or 2 foreigners and 5 Thai etc., but there must always be 1 more Thai than foreigners. The above requirements shall always be met and cannot be regarded a mere formality. Also, a tax card must be issued to the company as well as to all foreigners. The company is required to keep monthly accounts and to submit biannual as well as annual reports, and the company is under an obligation to pay company tax. Company tax must normally be paid in the period between 1 January and 1 April. Company tax is independent taxation and should not be confused with property tax and land tax.

How to buy a house or a piece of land after having established a company.
Here, I shall try to explain what many people do. This procedure is not correct, although you may tend to believe that it is.

It has become customary that certain persons or companies have established the company and purchased land for the company. Subsequently they enter into an agreement for the building of a house on the property. When the house is finished you will then receive your own blue book as the rightful owner of the house – or so you believe.
You cannot own your house, before it has been registered with the land registry office and the technical services department, where you must pay the registration fee. If people tell you otherwise, it is incorrect.
Consequently, buying a house is not as easy as many sellers tend to claim. First of all, you cannot go to the land registry office and register the house in your own name. You need to have a company, and the house cannot be registered for private use, only for company purposes.

When you want to have your registered at the land registry office you need to be in possession of the blue book as well as the construction plan in the company’s name. With the construction plan in your hand, which may be taken out in a different name, you can have your blue book issued at the technical services department. The blue book holds information of the physical user(s) of the house, not of the owner. Those things need to be registered in order to be able to pay your property tax. The property tax amounts to 42 bath/m² of residential area. You cannot put your house up for sale, before you have had it properly registered and you have paid the necessary fees. You may compare the situation with driving around in your neighbour’s car and wanting to sell it. Even if you have paid for it, you cannot sell your neighbour’s car, unless it is registered to you.

House on leasehold land.
I all those years that I have lived here in Thailand I have always compared buying a house on a piece of leasehold land with daylight robbery. In our company we have never issued a contract for leasehold land.

For leasehold to be registered, the landowner must sign a declaration that, after the termination of the leasehold, he will repay whichever value is left of the house now erected on the land. The registration of the leasehold must be made on the back of the deed for the land. This is reasonable. Because who would buy a property with only 2 years remaining of the leasehold, without any assurance of a renewal of the lease. This means that you property can only go one way. The price will fall dramatically towards a round 0. The owner will thus be willing to accept a higher increase in value without any risk. If leasehold is not registered correctly, a possible new owner may say that as nothing is registered on the deed, he new nothing of the lease contract. This means that he could then initiate the process of removing the person in question from his land. Where I come from this kind of behaviour would be termed fraud. In Thailand they call it an evasion of the truth. With regard to taxation, Thai law stipulates that for the first 30 years, the property tax must be paid by the owner. Subsequently the tax is paid by the tenant.

Consequently, I ask: Who pays the land tax?
Who pays the property tax? How do you get your house registered when you do not own a company, and who performs registration? Many of those things are never done, but that does not make it any more legal!
You can seek assistance from lawyers, but please note that in all Thailand there are only 30,000 registered lawyers 16,000 of whom work for large companies, and another 9,000 work for the public. The remaining 5,000 primarily operate in Bangkok. Everybody is entitled to call himself a lawyer. It is a free occupation, which only serves the purpose of creating security. You will be lucky to find a genuinely registered lawyer outside of Bangkok.

For your security Skandi Real Estate collaborates with the largest law firm in Bangkok.
Many people use the term luxury house. Let me say this once and for all: There are no luxury houses in Thailand. If you look at the houses being built, luxury houses according to Thai standards are below 30 per cent of what we would term luxury standard in Europe.

However, the minimum requirements should be: Double glazing, double-walls, insulated walls, ventilation system, alarm system, high-quality materials, insulated floors and ceilings. Tight doors and windows, an electric system that is not fixed with tape, but at least meets the normal European standard. A common requirement for an ordinary house in Europe, but no matter of course in so-called luxury houses in Thailand.

Let us classify the houses in order at least to have a possibility to evaluate the standard.

If you are planning to build a house, you must take into consideration that Thai workers only rarely have received formal training in the form of e.g. an apprenticeship. If you work with an architect he might as well be an interior decorator, and if you need an engineer, he might turn out to be a mechanical engineer. In Thailand they are pretty liberal about these things, and the quality of your building is no better than your worker. A spade is a spade, and even if you dig two holes, it will always be just a spade.

If you need a kitchen for your house, I suggest that you go directly to the kitchen company. Many people are eager to help you, but if a kitchen costs e.g. 100,000 Baht, many estate agents would gladly pass it on to you at a price of 300,000 Baht.

Just because you come to Thailand from a foreign country, you need not lose your common sense. You had better think twice!

If you need furniture for your new house, my advice is to go to Bangkok. There you will find an entire shopping street full of furniture dealers. A lot of people are eager to help you, but the sole purpose of their “friendly” intervention is that you pay a considerably higher price than would otherwise be the case.

An increasing number of companies have started advertising in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway that they sell houses in Thailand. There is nothing wrong with that, except if the people behind the activity turn out to be straw men. I have seen many private people starting their own business, but here you must be aware that they have often added several hundred thousand – in some cases even million - bath to the price as compared to the price you would pay directly through the real estate agent. (We own a house worth 4,400,000 Baht that we have seen in Denmark at a price of DKK 9.9 million). You should also bear in mind that, according to Thai legislation, the individual is not responsible for his actions, if something goes wrong. People must be held accountable in the country in which they live.

This draft is written as a guide to the common person in order that he or she pauses and reconsiders, before entering his/her name on a contract or agrees to receive help from a third party.

Thailand is the land of smiles, but don’t forget that the smile can sometimes stiffen. You have nothing but the smile to relate to - the Thai's show you no other way.

Thai people have their certain way of evading the truth, men the worst culprits can be found in your own ranks.

Skandi Real Estate participates in many courses every year to get an even better understanding of Thai legislation. We sometimes wonder why the other real estate agents don't follow our example...