What is changing for property buyers in Phuket — enforcement, regulation, and market data, with sources.
· Analytics
A developer will offer you two rental programs at purchase and quietly skip the other two. Guaranteed return, rental pool, third-party management, self-managed — what each pays, and the trade-off each hides.
· Analytics
Handover dates slip, and Thai off-plan contracts already say what you're owed when they do. The three clauses to read before you sign: the delay window, the termination remedy, and who pays the annual tax.
· Analytics
The 25-square-metre 'capsule' unit is the cheapest way onto the Phuket market and the fastest way to a resale you can't make. Here's the size below which a condo stops being an investment.
· Reports
A 15-second cafe video from Koh Phangan went viral and became shorthand for Thailand's frustration with tourist conduct. What the clip shows, what the visitor says happened, and what's still unverified.
· Reports
Thailand's Interior Ministry has expanded nominee-ownership inspections to more than 361 Phuket businesses, according to The Nation — the enforcement drive our earlier coverage tracked, now reported wider.
· Reports
A weekly read on Phuket enforcement and market signals — what actually moved this week, what stayed the same, and the specific things worth watching next.
· Analytics
The three real ways a foreigner holds Phuket property — freehold condo, registered leasehold, and a genuine operating company — with what each gives you and where each carries risk.
· Analytics
If you hold a Phuket villa through a Thai company, these are the concrete questions to take to your own lawyer after the 2026 nominee enforcement — not to the agent who sold you the structure.
· Analytics
A foreign name on a share register isn't the test. Here's what actually distinguishes a genuine Thai shareholder from a nominee under Thai law — capital, control, and economic interest.
· Analytics
Our 2026–2030 outlook for Phuket property — condo oversupply, a shift south and to villas, and a premium repositioning — with the data rebuilt as charts and what it means for a buyer.
· Market
A dated Houseviser baseline for Phuket house and villa asking inventory, separated from verified nominee-enforcement facts and untested liquidity hypotheses.
· Analytics
A source-by-source check of the 49 rai, THB 1 billion, 66-company, and 632-company claims from Thailand's June 2026 nominee operation.
· Reports
Order 2/2569 replaces two earlier registration measures and requires matching bank evidence for specified filings involving foreign investment or signing authority.
· Analytics
No Phuket condominium has ever held a hotel license — it's a marketing term, not a legal one. Here's what actually decides whether a building can run short-term rentals like a hotel.
