Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
A sale with right of redemption is a real sale: ownership transfers on registration, and missing the deadline hands over the land with no lawsuit. Here is how it differs from a mortgage, the protections in the 2019 Act, how to deposit the redemption sum, and the recurring tricks.
A section 83 caveat is a temporary hold rather than a seizure, lasts thirty days from acceptance, cannot be extended, and cannot be repeated on the same matter. Here is who may apply, what those thirty days are for, and what an owner under caveat should do.
The area on a deed is the survey of the day it was issued rather than a measurement of today, so a discrepancy is normal. This separates the causes where nobody is at fault from the ones where somebody is, with section 69 bis, the 30 day notice, the 90 day deadline, and what a purchase contract must say.
A gift to a legitimate child costs 0.5 percent in transfer fee with gift tax exempt to 20 million baht a year, but the child usually cannot borrow against it, the land tax stays with the parents under section 1426, and if the child dies first the ownership follows their heirs. Here are all six.
A habitation right lets somebody live in a building rent-free and cannot pass even by inheritance under section 1404. A right of superficies means owning the building on another's land and does pass on under section 1411. Here is the comparison, and what happens to the building when the right ends.
A usufruct separates the name on the deed from the right to live there and collect rent under section 1417, but section 1426 puts the taxes and mortgage interest on the holder, and the right always ends on their death. Here are the rights, the duties, and what to settle before registering.
Use with the landowner's consent never becomes a servitude, but peaceable open use for ten years may create one under section 1401. Here are the three ways a servitude arises, the one-page permission that stops the clock, what section 1390 forbids the owner from doing, and how one is extinguished.
Without stated shares, section 1357 presumes them equal. Each co-owner may sell their own share without permission, and a clause never to sell binds for only ten years at a time. Here are the statutory rights, what co-buyers learn too late, and nine clauses to write before the transfer.
Ownership sits in the land office's records, so a lost deed does not mean lost land, and whoever finds it cannot transfer it. The genuinely dangerous case is a deed lost together with a power of attorney signed with blanks.
The duty to maintain common utilities stays with the developer until one of three things happens, and the Act (No. 3) B.E. 2568 lets buyers holding at least half the sold plots establish the entity themselves if the developer has not initiated it within 180 days.
A boundary survey confirms an existing plot's limits, a different service from subdivision. The reason to hurry is section 1382, which gives ownership after ten continuous years of peaceful, open possession with the intention of ownership.
The colour says what the land may be used for, but what you can actually build still depends on building law and the width of the road you front. And green land generally does permit a house, which is the thing people get wrong most.
