The story Thais built it, sold it, and registered it. So why is the foreigner the only one in the dock? as seen on Thaiger News.

ssional hands, stamped by official hands, and tolerated for twenty profitable years by the state itself, why is the foreigner at the end of the line the only one being asked to pay for it?

Tell us where you land. This is part four of a ten-part Thaiger series on Thailand’s property market, an attempt to cut through the noise of crackdowns, court rulings and policy reversals and work out what it all actually adds up to. The question at its heart, the nominees, the ownership rules, the structures everyone uses and nobody can quite define, has gone unresolved through government after government for decades, and we make no promise to settle it here. But we will try to make it ten pieces worth reading. The earlier parts: Part one: “Thailand is throwing out the foreigners it spent a fortune inviting in”: https://thethaiger.com/thai-life/property/thailand-is-throwing-out-the-foreigners-it-spent-a-fortune-inviting-in Part two: “Thailand’s problem isn’t its property law. It’s that nobody trusts it to last”: https://thethaiger.com/thai-life/property/thailands-problem-isnt-its-property-law-its-that-nobody-trusts-it-to-last Part three: “A Thai office worker earns a good salary, saves hard, and still can’t buy a home”: https://thethaiger.com/thai-life/property/a-thai-office-worker-earns-a-good-salary-saves-hard-and-still-cant-buy-a-home Analysis, not legal advice, and not an allegation against any specific firm, consultant, official, or individual. Descriptions of how nominee structures were marketed are drawn from publicly published Thai legal commentaries and property guides and refer to the practice in general, not to any named party. It is a general argument about how responsibility should be distributed when a long-tolerated practice is finally enforced. Anyone affected should take qualified, independent local counsel.

The story Thais built it, sold it, and registered it. So why is the foreigner the only one in the dock? as seen on Thaiger News.