PaddyThai

I realize this topic is 2 years old but wondering what farm land is selling for since this topic started. Has it continued to go up in price or has it collapsed.
My wife owns about 30 rai of good farmland with simple house, electricity, well water and a pond which is about 200 sq; metres and about 2m deep. Land is about 5km form Chumpae town and about 1km off the main road.
She is hoping to sell

The restrictions on sending money abroad on this thread refer to foreigners in Thailand.

I wonder if a foreigner's Thai wife could use her bank account to transfer money on-line overseas to her husband's bank account, her own overseas bank account (if she had one) or indeed anyone else without as much restrictions

Anyone know if my wife would need to attend court to get squatter removed, or would solicitor represent her himself.

Would like to thank everyone who went to the trouble of offering advice and information.

Will post feedback from lawyer/solicitor once known.

Wife has been informed that squatter will not leave under any circumstances. even if he were paid hundreds of thousands of baht. He insists my wife cannot get him out.

This has me worried and I have advised my wife to get a lawyer immediately.

Not sure who has paid last two years property tax but have urged my wife to pay it asap.

Wondering can divorce be registered at any District Office (Amphur) or does it have to be where the couple were married.

The land has Chanoot title deeds

UPDATE

For anyone interested my wife has now decided that she would be better off keeping the property as the income from rice, fruit, fish helps her sister survive. If she sells the farm she would end up sending money to sister every month. If she keeps farm then her sister has food and some income from selling rice. her sister would lease land to locals and get paid in produce, as is the custom.

I am happy with this as I expect land prices to increase over next 5 to 10 years.

My wife plans to pay squatter 100,000 as compensation for him now having to move out. I do not agree with this for a variety of reasons but admit that paying him 50,000 might save a lot of hassle and legal fees.

Whoever pays the property taxes is the legal owner of the land, case closed.

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With respect, that doesn't make any sense.

A person might leave his farm to go and work in Bkk and end up staying there for years. How would he know that someone had been paying the small amount of land tax in order to get ownership of the property

Agree with last two posters.

I have won and lost playing the stock market but never felt secure with just paper wealth.

Decided about 13 years ago to plant trees on one of, my wife's, farms and watch them grow every year. we did not need an immediate income from the land and were happy to let the trees grow and eventually produce fruit. The local old people go to one of, my wife;s, farms to collect firewood and mushrooms.

Food prices worldwide are going up. the materialistic consumerist society is shaking at it;s foundations. There are few if any solid investments. I would prefer to have rice, fruit, vegies and fish than bars of gold when the sh++it hits the fan.

Thanks for replies.

Originally my wife was happy to let the 2nd husband of her mother live on the farm for the rest of his life. His family, unfortunately, have moved into the house/farm and have put a lock on the gate of the fenced property. My wife's sister cannot access the land. They have not given a portion of the rice to my sister in-law as agreed and have sold her rice share. He has made it clear to my wife that something bad will happen to her sister if we try to evict him. He said this even though my wife never mentioned evicting him. We would have been happy to leave him there but his, and his families behaviour, is not good.

I am not sure what the legal situation is. He lived with my wife's mother on the farm for about 10 years. He has stayed there for 3 years thereafter.

Many people in the local village are eager to buy the land, and several Chineese from local town. we would prefer to sell to my wife's cousin even at a lower price.

The prospective purchasers are not too concerned about the possible squatter problem.

Take a page out of Chuwit's playbook- hammer time!

Have no idea what you mean

For anyone interested, we have decided to sell.

Making good profit on 15 year investment.

My wife bought some land in several parts of Thailand 10 and 15 years ago. We spent money on one of the farms and developed the fish ponds, planted fruit trees, fencing and built a small farm house.

We have created an oasis of green productive land in the midle of Isaan. My mother-in law and her family benefited from living on the farm and we did not need to send her money for day to day living.

The land is now for sale and we have been offered 3.5 times what we paid for and spent on developing the land.

With world food prices on the rise I would say we could leave the property and sell it in a few years when it will have increased in price more.

I cannot think of too many better investments ion todays turbulent times. I have owned and lost lots in paper investments and feel good about developing property and making an honest profit.

I would be careful about allowing relatives to live on land as they could claim squatters rights if you were gone for over 10 years.

Thanks for replies.

I have looked at old threads on this subject but not found clear guidelines. I suppose everyone's situation is different.

I just found this site which I will study later. Might be useful for others;

http://www.thailandlawonline.com/Laws/property-law-land-code-act.html

My wife is now of the opinion that the best thing to do is sell the property. Threats have been made against her family if we try to evict squatters and that causes complications.

I don't want to sell but sometimes people make their own lives difficult.

My wife owns a farm with a small house in rural Thailand.

Her mother used to live there with her second husband.They had lived there for about 13 years. Her mother died 2 years ago. and my wife told her father in law that he could continue living there.

Now there have been arguments with father in-law and her relatives. My wife has not asked him to leave but he has told her that he will never leave.

My concern now is that he may be able to claim ownership as a squatter or whatever the Thai equivalent is. The agreement to let him live there was verbal at the time of mother in- law's passing.

Anyone know what the legal position is with someone claiming ownership of property after living on it for years.

Thanks for replies.

Read this on this sitehttp://travel.state.gov/law/family_issues/divorce/divorce_592.html

RECOGNITION BASED ON COMITY: A divorce decree issued in a foreign country generally is recognized in a state in the United States on the basis of comity(Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163-64 (1895), provided both parties to the divorce received adequate notice, i.e., service of process and, generally, provided one of the parties was a domiciliary in the foreign nation at the time of the divorce. Under the principle of comity, a divorce obtained in another country under the circumstances described above receives "full faith and credit" in all other states and countries that recognize divorce. Although full faith and credit may be given to an ex parte divorce decree, states usually consider the jurisdictional basis upon which the foreign decree is founded and may withhold full faith and credit if not satisfied regarding domicile in the foreign country. Many state courts which have addressed the question of a foreign divorce where both parties participate in the divorce proceedings but neither obtains domicile there have followed the view that such a divorce invalid

Are you legally married in Thailand? If you are, then divorce at the amphur and translate the divorce papers and get them certified at the department of consular affairs (Cheangwattana), that will be enough in USA

That will clear your wife's problem. If you are legally married in Ireland too, then you have a slight problem though

Thanks for quick reply.

We were legally married in Thailand under thai law.

We informed authorities here of our Thai marriage for the purposes of getting Irish passport but never married under Irish law here.

The Irish legal situation is complex, one of us must be resident in Thailand for a time for a Thai divorce to be accepted here.

I am hoping that the American authorities will accept a Thai divorce for the purposes of marrying in the USA.

My Thai wife and I, Irish citizen, seperated amicably in February of this year,

She has since met an american and they have decided to marry.

Under Irish law a Thai divorce would not be recognised as we both reside here and have done for about 20 years.

She would need to apply for a divorce in Ireland which means waiting 4 years before a divorce is granted.

What I am hoping is that she can get divorced in Thailand and that divorce will be accepted in USA.

Asy advice or opinions appreciated.

Farmland in my area of chayapoum goes for about 20-25K/rai. It has gone up alot in the last few years.

This is for land that has been cleared and previously used for growing corn or cassava. Uncleared land with lots of trees and boulders is worth virtually nothing although people ask silly money for it they never sell it.

Thanks for that.

Helpful info.

Anyone know how rural agricultural land prices are doing or a link to a web site that tracks them.

I am particularly interested in famland in Chaiyaphum and want to see if prices have risen in past 5 to 10 years.

Wife needs to sell large Eucalyptus plantation in Chaiyaphum. Don't have all details now but just wondering how land prices are these days. She bought land about 5 years ago.

As mentioned, Thai is the only option. At least the price is now a tad more reasonable. It had risen to a minimum of B3200 one way, but has now dropped to B2230 for the cheapest one way tickets.

Wife and kids flew Thai Airways.

Bit expensive but after travelling from Ireland via London they could not go any other way.

Appreciate that.

Last time I flew Thai airways from BKK to KK it cost only about 2,000 baht. Bit more now.

Looking at feasibility of taking VIP bus or Taxi but that might be exhausting.

\wife flying inot Bkk on 17 Aug. at 18.00 and needs to fly onot Khon Kaen either that evening or next day.

I rember reading some time ago about cheap airlines on this route but can't remember their names or find them on net.

Thai airways seem expensive.

Can anyone help with airline names for this route, please?

Thanks.