I'm trying to get my head around the condo property market in Chiang Mai.
I've been here over 8 years, and rents have either gone sideways, or over the past year, down another 20%+, there's just an over supply, and a pandemic!
I bought a condo in an old building in 2019 for 750k, renovations, furnishing, total came to roughly 1mil.
Pre-Covid rent, 7,000pm.
The same condos were selling for 500k back in 2015, and the rents were pretty much the same.
Rents have now dropped to 6000k, but the price of the condos have gone up.
I don't really understand, is this just Thaiconomics?
(assuming rented for a full year)
2015 ROI - 10%
2019 ROI - 8%
2021 ROI - 5%
One recently sold for 1.2mil, fully renovated. There's others in the building looking for 1.3 and 1.4.... for the past few years, so I guess 1.2 is the limit.
What's going on here? Are prices expected to jump once things get back to some sort of normality, which could be 2 years away.
A target ROI in the west for a rental property investment is 10 - 15%.... Is 5 - 6% considered ok here?
On one hand its good, my property price has increased, but on the other hand, not so good. I was hoping to pick up another one, but a 5% ROI is pretty crappy.... unless these buyers know something I don't?