Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
The commission you save pays for six jobs you now have to do. This covers photographing the house on a phone, writing a listing that answers what buyers filter on, three questions that identify a real buyer, safety during viewings, and the mortgage stage where private deals collapse.
Land buyers are buying a possibility rather than what they can see, so every question they cannot answer becomes a discount in their offer. The seller's job is to answer all of them before they have to be asked.
The real difference is not how many agents hold the property but who will invest in it, because an agent with ten competitors pays for nothing. A house appearing in ten listings at five prices tells buyers the owner cannot sell.
Price from what comparable homes nearby have actually sold for in the last six months, not from what other people are asking. Listing sites show sellers' hope rather than results: an overpriced listing sits for a year, and it becomes the number the next seller quotes, so the wrong price gets handed down.
Section 472 makes the seller liable for defects impairing value or fitness whether or not the seller knew, provided they existed at or before delivery. Section 473 gives three exceptions, and the one year period in section 474 runs from discovery rather than from the date of transfer.
Investors prefer tenanted property because income starts on transfer day, but selling tenanted removes owner-occupiers, who are most of the market. Under section 569 the lease survives the transfer, so the buyer prices from the rent written into the lease rather than from comparable sales.
The Treasury Department publishes the 2027-2030 appraisal schedule on 1 December 2026, effective 1 January 2027, with values expected to rise by at least 10%. The consequences stack three deep: transfer fees on a higher base, land tax up every year, and properties appraised near THB 7 million dropping out of the 0.01% measure while it still has six months to run.
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