Thread: Land prices Sa Kaeo, Prachinburi, Saraburi

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by Nawtier

If a random guy with a scrapmof paper can issue the house book....so be it then

The house book or tambien ban now means absolutely nothing, ask your local Immigration officer .

Indeed.
Has just become an extra layer of bureaucratic documentation.
Occasionally handy concerning some officialdom.

Originally Posted by Nawtier

If a random guy with a scrapmof paper can issue the house book....so be it then

Yeh, that's why our house book address is in a rubber shed, no house.
2 different things and depending on where you live, probably 2 different departments.

You need it to get many things and did back then.....did not need it for immigration...its a thai thingy

Point is....you can get your building permit after it is built if you want......

Originally Posted by Nawtier

Point is....you can get your building permit after it is built if you want......

Here's the rules, no permit no building.

Obtaining a Building License in Thailand

Originally Posted by Nawtier

Point is....you can get your building permit after it is built if you want

That's open to questions. My ex cleaner couldn't get planning permission before having her house(?) built because it didn't show a toilet. So god knows how she could get the permit after?

Well, you're talking close to 6000 square miles with those three provinces, maybe you need to narrow your area down a bit before asking "how long a piece of string is in thailand" or "how many thais it takes to cut a piece of string".

Seeing as you have a thai wife, why not have her google around in thai? I know it's crazy but I've found most things can be found out here IF you google in thai. <-just sayin' is all

Conversely have your wife put the word out you're looking for land in some one buffalo village up in Nakhon Nowhere and thai people will come out of the woodwork with deals too good to pass up.

I was asking for basic ranges for land cost, materials and labor, all of which I have a fair idea what is reasonable.

I too wonder, if you have a fair idea what's reasonable, why are you askin'?

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by DrB0b

freehold land. DrB0b is offline Add to DrB0b's Reputation Report Post

What's your definition of 'freehold'. Basically it's either Sor Por Kor or Chanote. Chanote is all singing and dancing title and the best way to go IMO. With Sor Por Kor land you don't own the land you just have a right to farm it. Failing to farm it can result in the Crown taking it back. May be the reason why Thais farm land and don't earn an income from it? They're just biding their time in the hope it becomes Chanote. Jusy my take on it.

Quite clearly freehold land is land that comes with a chanote. I used the word freehold as I wanted to be informative rather than to dazzle people with my knowledge of Thai bureaucratic minutiae.

Haha....must have been all a dream then......rules..must follow the rules, no deviation whatsoever. ...nope

Originally Posted by Wasp

0.3 rai . 60 000 Baht

Slaps and Stoker could clear that patch in a long weekend, and have the shed up and ready to go by the middle of the next week...

So, prices are higher than I thought which were 2-3 times what the OP suggested. Not so cheap Thailand nowadays...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Originally Posted by Wasp

0.3 rai . 60 000 Baht

Slaps and Stoker could clear that patch in a long weekend, and have the shed up and ready to go by the middle of the next week...

So, prices are higher than I thought which were 2-3 times what the OP suggested. Not so cheap Thailand nowadays...

Hi Betty . It's worth bearing in mind that we were looking elsewhere at a large piece of land and somebody told somebody .
So clearly we looked a good prospect and must have funds.
Which made them approach us with the riverfront strip for 60 000.

Perhaps if we had shown less interest - and if I was Thai - it might have been more like 40 000.
Which is still a rate of 135 000 for one rai of fairly useless ( but very pretty ) waterfront land.


Wasp

Different numbers Betts .
In all my working life --- after taxes and other deductions --- I never cleared much above 50 000 Baht .

But yes .... even 60 000 for unbuildable riverfront seems cheap .

The river is lovely . I used to jump in there all the time .
The Thais didn't .
Nobody told me about river snakes !!!!


Wasp

^ you'll be alright, looks harmless to me!

100/150k is quite cheap, dependind where and what obviously.......we paid 500k several years ago for a very nice block

only in thai,maybe it help!
Properties for Sale

^ good link; the missus bought a couple of apartments off one of those bank sites, and the prices were so cheap that the land office wouldn't accept changing the documents into her name without a special letter from the bank saying it was all kosher!

Originally Posted by 1960apache

how do most people find land other than the internet

Land for sale is often advertised with a large sign by the road. Also look for empty land near new house builds. The land might be available to buy. Ask someone living nearby.

Neverna is correct, there are usually signs saying ขายที่ดิน (Land for sale) plastered up on land you drive past. Often times it's at the closest store posted on a light pole or something. Some say มีโฉนด (have land title).

Via the internet this is how you find land for sale;
ขายที่ดินสระแก้ว <- Land for Sale Sa Kaeo, plug the thai into Google

This was the first hit returned;
DD Property Sa Kaeo

Or use this site; Teedin108 Dot Com
have you wife put the parameters in.

I don't know anything about those sites but they return a fair number of hits per search.

As a rule I'd stay off the sites in english.. Here in Bangkok I've found apartments on english language sites and the exact same listing on a thai language site with totally different prices for the same apartment. The foreign price and the thai price.

Good Luck..

Just let it be known, in the area where you wish to settle, that a farang wishes to purchase some land and stand back. Always someone selling land and always a local agent looking for buyers.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Just let it be known, in the area where you wish to settle, that a farang wishes to purchase some land and stand back. Always someone selling land and always a local agent looking for buyers.

That works even better....
Yet, chances are Farang will be paying a premium price for [any] property that wasn't set before - or, sometimes not.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Just let it be known, in the area where you wish to settle, that a farang wishes to purchase some land and stand back. Always someone selling land and always a local agent looking for buyers.

Do you mean stand back and be asked double the price what a Thai is expected to pay ? dunno maybe its just the simple fact I have been living here for too long who knows

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Do you mean stand back and be asked double the price what a Thai is expected to pay ?

They will try it on for sure but one needs to have contact other farangs locally who should know. But there again, maybe they got shafted too?

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Just let it be known, in the area where you wish to settle, that a farang wishes to purchase some land and stand back. Always someone selling land and always a local agent looking for buyers.

Do you mean stand back and be asked double the price what a Thai is expected to pay ? dunno maybe its just the simple fact I have been living here for too long who knows

Sure. Expected.

Whatever the market will bear.
Just the way it is.