Buying, selling, renting, mortgages, law and tax, written so you can decide when you finish reading
Rent of 10,000 a month on a 2 million baht condo is a 6.0 per cent gross yield, but after voids, common fees, maintenance and agent fees it nets about 3.78 per cent before income tax. MRR at the major Thai banks in early 2026 is roughly 6.6 to 6.95 per cent, so a mortgaged unit runs at negative cash flow.
Not to the point of recovery. The Real Estate Information Center calls 2026 a year that passed the low point into a flat state. Q1 transfers were 72,583 units, up 11.2 per cent, while value rose only 3.1, meaning more buyers purchasing cheaper. The 0.01 per cent fee measure ends on 30 June 2027.
Human x Car x Home is Xiaomi's term for uniting person, car and home under one account and HyperOS. It was shown at IFA 2026 in Berlin across more than 3,300 square metres with over 380 products, against a stated 1.16 billion connected devices. What a house needs is power, network and conduit, none tied to a brand.
A smart pump uses an inverter to vary motor speed with demand and hold pressure constant, unlike a pressure tank pump that is either fully on or fully off. What it solves is pressure dropping when several outlets run at once, not the electricity bill, because a tank pump does not run while the tank supplies the house.
Check three layers: GISTDA satellite imagery from past years, especially 2011; the marks on the building, such as a horizontal water line at one consistent level and paint refreshed only on the lower half; and what long-standing neighbours say. A residential fire policy caps all natural perils together at 20,000 baht a year, not at the sum insured.
You can buy it, but a servitude runs with the land rather than the owner, so it always passes to the buyer, and a sale does not extinguish one that already existed. The real trap is a servitude acquired by prescription, which needs no registration yet still binds a buyer, so it appears nowhere on the title deed.
A single co-owner may inspect the annual report and regulations at the management office under section 38/3. The juristic person must submit an audited balance sheet for approval within 120 days of the accounting year end under section 38/1. Twenty per cent of the votes calls an extraordinary meeting, and one quarter removes the manager.
There are three steps: a written demand sent by registered post, a complaint to the Office of the Consumer Protection Board on 1166, and a consumer case in court. Section 18 of the Consumer Case Procedure Act B.E. 2551 exempts consumers from all fees at filing, and a claim can be filed orally with a court officer recording it.
Feng shui does move prices, but not through the number itself. A study of nearly 117,000 US sales found addresses ending in 4 sold about 2.2 per cent below and those ending in 8 about 2.5 per cent above, but only in neighbourhoods with many residents of Chinese descent. Below 10 per cent, the difference vanished.
Thailand's PM2.5 standard is 37.5 micrograms per cubic metre over 24 hours and 15 as an annual average, in force since 1 June 2023. The WHO guideline is 15 and 5. Thai and US air quality indexes use different breakpoints, so the same air produces different AQI numbers. Compare the microgram figure instead.
Purple on a Thai city plan is industrial and warehousing land, and plum is warehousing only. Both prohibit residential subdivision and tall residential buildings, and cap other uses at ten per cent of the whole zone rather than ten per cent of your plot. Codes Or 1, Or 2 and Or 3 are redefined in each plan's own regulation.
Ror Ngor 4 is the licence to operate a class 3 factory under Thailand's Factory Act. Since 27 October 2019 a factory starts at 50 horsepower or 50 workers, up from 5 and 7, so smaller operations no longer need one. Anyone buying or renting an existing factory has 7 days to apply for the transfer.
