bravingbangkok

You just tried to belittle me so of course I am going to get angry. Saying that a 5million townhouse is a slum, Oh I am so sorry that we are not all as rich and powerful as you Mr Lord Of The Rings. IDIOT

ah really.

So you didn't think it was going to make anyone angry when you called them an idiot for spending money you choose not to?

Twice now?

What's next, are you going to get at me for wearing a nice suit, driving a nice car, wearing a nice watch or purchasing from the sideline rather than the fishbowl?

LOTR aye.....well in that case call me Gandalf, I take it we've met before. You must be Gimli the dwarf

As for shop contracts; no idea what that is about; as I don't know anything about real estate.

Actually, I am just a freelance actor, and i do voice overs for commercials. I don't know much about anything. But I do like to wind you up :-)

Me ol' chum.

So shall we be best mates? I know Thaksin.

I struggled to find the right reply to the above comments and all I can simply say is you seem to have a bit of a problem. What is wrong with buying a 5mil property ? I am only 23 for christ sake, When was I talking about 4milUS$ property ??????? I am talking about condos that have prices that do not relate to the current politial and economical climate and you start going on about millions of $ investments and insulting me !

Ah well, 23 aye, well hopefully by the time you reach my age in another 12 years, you will have a better grasp of the english language and also of economics.

As for your comment calling me (and others) an idiot to buy any property at 100k per sqm..... the funny thing is the people doing so have a fair bit more cash than you.

Where do you think it came from?

I bet not from taking advice from 23 year olds LOL.

If you can't take it, then don't give it out. At least I didn't call you an idiot ;-)

You just tried to belittle me so of course I am going to get angry. Saying that a 5million townhouse is a slum, Oh I am so sorry that we are not all as rich and powerful as you Mr Lord Of The Rings. IDIOT

You must be so big and powerful that you must know about buying shop contracts in Bangkok.......right ? Ever heard of anything like that ?

I struggled to find the right reply to the above comments and all I can simply say is you seem to have a bit of a problem. What is wrong with buying a 5mil property ? I am only 23 for christ sake, When was I talking about 4milUS$ property ??????? I am talking about condos that have prices that do not relate to the current politial and economical climate and you start going on about millions of $ investments and insulting me !

Ah well, 23 aye, well hopefully by the time you reach my age in another 12 years, you will have a better grasp of the english language and also of economics.

As for your comment calling me (and others) an idiot to buy any property at 100k per sqm..... the funny thing is the people doing so have a fair bit more cash than you.

Where do you think it came from?

I bet not from taking advice from 23 year olds LOL.

If you can't take it, then don't give it out. At least I didn't call you an idiot ;-)

You just tried to belittle me so of course I am going to get angry. Saying that a 5million townhouse is a slum, Oh I am so sorry that we are not all as rich and powerful as you Mr Lord Of The Rings. IDIOT

Try and understand eachothers culture and ways, a farang/thai relationship is never going to be easy and you will argue like hel_l for the fisrt few years. You should try and learn from any arguments or conflicts of culture that you encounter and you will start to accept things you might not have accepted before. Try and view it as an adventure and not as trying to please someone even though what pleases them is making you unhappy, this will only result in depression and more conflict. Not mant make it out here but those who do have a great life, It takes a lot of work but is well worth it Good luck !

Sorry If I cannot give you facts James but it is just my gutt feeling that the condo market is going no where but down.

Steve Colbert:

'We're not members of the factinista. We go straight from the gut. Right, sir?

That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. Now, I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut. I did. My gut tells me that's how our nervous system works.'

Leave the property buying the the buyers, no need to wade in with you 'gutt feeling' mate next you will be telling the people who spent 4m USD buying a villa that they are total idiots, as you sit in your 5m baht slummy townhouse and they look at their net worth of 100m USD and wonder whether they should even care they just spent another 4m on a new toy.

Why don't you tell a bunch more people probably richer and more successful than you how to invest in the stock market and other commodities; I haven't had a really good laugh for a few days ;-)

I struggled to find the right reply to the above comments and all I can simply say is you seem to have a bit of a problem. What is wrong with buying a 5mil property ? I am only 23 for christ sake, When was I talking about 4milUS$ property ??????? I am talking about condos that have prices that do not relate to the current politial and economical climate and you start going on about millions of $ investments and insulting me !

Sad...very sad !

hehehe no I did not but I can see where you would get that assumption, I bought my condo when the prices where reasonable about 5 years ago. Let me just say that for anyone thinking of buying one of these new condos I would take a serious look into buying a townhouse, For only 5million you can get 3 floors in an area like Sathon. This compared to 10million for an overpriced 60sqm 2 bedroom room in one of these new and fancy condo buildings.

I would just be very careful about buying into these condo projects, I think the property market is getting a ahead of itself. Sorry If I cannot give you facts James but it is just my gutt feeling that the condo market is going no where but down.

As I am married and plan to have a family, yes a townhouse is more appealing to me. However, my best mate just bought a second hand freehold 1 bedroom 100sqm place on Luangsuan for 10 million baht.

As a single guy who works on the same soi as his condo, his needs are obviously different than mine and he is happy to pay 70k a month in bank payments

Well thats my thinking, I already have a child and she is getting bigger by the day and townhouse prices and what you get are looking very tasty indeed.

Wow 70k a month on loan payments is quite a chunk of money for Thailand. Is he just paying the interest and counting on the growth or interest and repayments ?

"When in doubt do what the Thais are doing"

Thais are on a buying spree of undeveloped ocean land in the south and agricultual land in the north. I have no idea what the're doing in Bangkok, but there is more buying activity going on in land than in the 6 years I have been here, from my personal observations. Maybe they're buying the top, I don't know.

very interesting

I also hate the way investors buy property and then hike up the price afterwards, I mean Ok I know this is part of the game etc etc but they do it to such an extreme. For example a 3 bedroom condo in the new 'NEW YORK' on Petchburi Rd went for around 8mil when they started. I saw someone trying to shift it for 15 750 000 and it has only been two years max since he would have made the downpayment on the unit. This type of thing completely distorts the market and should not be allowed.

hehehe no I did not but I can see where you would get that assumption, I bought my condo when the prices where reasonable about 5 years ago. Let me just say that for anyone thinking of buying one of these new condos I would take a serious look into buying a townhouse, For only 5million you can get 3 floors in an area like Sathon. This compared to 10million for an overpriced 60sqm 2 bedroom room in one of these new and fancy condo buildings.

I would just be very careful about buying into these condo projects, I think the property market is getting a ahead of itself. Sorry If I cannot give you facts James but it is just my gutt feeling that the condo market is going no where but down.

No facts needed James just common sense. At the rates they are charging some and I do mean some of the condos are priced the same as the same sized condos/apartments in London ! Hows that ? Thailand is not a big economy and the only reason property prices have risen dramatically is because of greedy development firms cashing in while the property market is shit in the west. In Thailand you get what you can when you can, you live for the day not the years to come. I was once told a very wise thing by one of my Thai friends

"When in doubt do what the Thais are doing"

Most buildings with Thai/farang quotas have not filled the Thai quota. I wonder why ???????

You are an idiot if you bought property in the last 2 years in Bangkok, get out now ! 100 000 up oer sq m has no relation to the Thai econmy or current unstable position, yes you have been mugged !