the seller pays, but often ups the price to include the incurred costs...
the whole bull that farang cannot own land because the price for thai would increase too much... in my moo baan, houses that were priced 4.85 M are 15 years later sold at 6.5-7 or more... during covid it was around 5 ...
no foreigner involved, but greed of thais and owners head spun by agents, indeed, for more commission
I am looking to rent something and it is weird why owners don't do it themselves and save on agent because in most cases, I could not go visit just with the agent, the owner had to be there too for some weird reason, one of them was, they don't trust the agent... but why pay a month rent commission then or 3% on a sale is beyond me...