The MangoGo guides
Thai property law and visa rules trip up most foreign buyers — and the generic portals won't walk you through them. These guides do. Written for the foreigner trying to make a real decision, verified against current Thai rules, refreshed when the law moves.
Most Thai property brokers still sell leasehold as '30+30+30 — effectively 90 years.' The Thai Supreme Court has now twice held that lease renewal options are not real rights and don't bind successors in title. Here's what's actually enforceable and what isn't.
Foreign quota is real freehold; leasehold is a 30-year right-to-use that decays. Here's the side-by-side that almost no Thai broker will show you, with a 90-year cost comparison.
The four legal paths foreigners actually use to own Thai property — condo foreign quota, leasehold, Thai limited company, spouse ownership — with the 2026 enforcement risks for each.
Most Thailand-property content online is either marketing copy from a single broker, or thin SEO chum that paraphrases the same Wikipedia paragraph. We write what we'd want our friends to read before spending six figures abroad — current law, current rates, current enforcement context, with sources you can verify yourself.