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These condos are available under a building's foreign quota, so a non-Thai buyer can own them outright (freehold) in their own name — the most secure form of property ownership available to foreigners in Thailand. We verify the remaining foreign quota on every unit shown here before you view or reserve.
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Thai condominium law reserves up to 49% of every building's saleable area for foreign freehold ownership. Inside that quota a foreign buyer's position is as strong as property ownership gets in Thailand: your own name on the title deed, registered at the Land Office, inheritable and freely resalable. Outside it, the routes are leasehold or a company structure — workable, but not the same thing. That single percentage is why two identical units in one building can be a straightforward purchase for one buyer and a structuring exercise for another.
Foreign-freehold registration has one non-negotiable prerequisite: the purchase money must arrive in Thailand as foreign currency, remitted in your name, and the receiving bank must issue a Foreign Exchange Transaction certificate for it. Without that document the Land Office will not register foreign ownership, however valid the sale. The building's juristic office must also confirm in writing that the quota has space for your unit on transfer day — not the day you reserved. We sequence the remittance, the quota letter and the transfer appointment so none of the three expires waiting for the others.
Every unit listed here has been checked against its building's current quota position rather than the developer's original sales sheet — quota moves as buildings resell, and a unit that was foreign-quota at launch can sit Thai-quota today or the reverse. In popular buildings the last foreign-quota units carry a visible premium over their Thai-quota twins; whether that premium is worth paying depends on your exit plan, since a foreign-quota unit also resells into the deepest pool of buyers. That trade-off is exactly the conversation to have before an offer, and we have it with numbers on the table.
Thai law lets foreigners own up to 49% of a condominium building's total floor area as freehold. Units within that 49% are 'foreign quota' and can be held outright in a foreigner's own name; the remaining 51% is Thai-quota.
Yes. Foreigners can own a condominium unit outright (freehold) in their own name, as long as the building still has foreign quota available — Thai law caps foreign ownership at 49% of a condo building's total floor area. Pearl Property verifies the remaining foreign quota on every unit before you view or reserve it.
The purchase funds must be transferred into Thailand in foreign currency, and the bank issues a Foreign Exchange Transaction (FET) certificate — this document is required to register foreign-freehold ownership at the Land Office. We guide you through the remittance and paperwork.
If the 49% foreign quota is already used, remaining units can usually still be bought via a registered long-term leasehold or a Thai company structure. We always check and tell you the quota status up front.
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