Data is collected for specific purposes. I'm not against collecting data, no joke. All I am saying, which you keep pretending not to understand, is national data has no relevance to a local, individual transaction. This isn't unique to housing. Suppose you live in Pattaya and you are in the market for a used 2020 Honda City for sale locally. Google tells me that on any given day there are 35,000 to 40,000 used cars for sale all over Thailand. How exactly is that national data relevant to your finding and buying a 2020 Honda City for sale in Pattaya? It's not, and you know it's not. It's exactly the same for national property for sale numbers. If I am buying or selling a seaview 1-bedroom condo in Wong Amat, I could care less how many properties are for sale nationwide. Once again, how many 1-bedroom seaview condos in Wong Amat are on the market? That's what is important for local, individual transactions. I think there are '1000 properties for sale'--and likely more--because Pattaya is a huge area with a lot of different places and neighborhoods, both Beachside and on the Darkside. I think there are '1000 properties for sale' because there are lots of different types of properties available in Pattaya, more than anywhere else in Thailand--everything from all sizes of condos from studios to huge full-floor units, from small bungalows to big pool villas, from one-story house to ones with 3 or more stories, from shophouses to townhouses--just a huge variety in a very spread out area. Yet, with all those 'thousands and thousands' of properties for sale, when you punch in the four basics--property type, property size, property price, and property area, you end up with a manageable number, which is further reduced when some more specific criteria are added, as I stated in my last post. Give it a try on a real estate website that allows you to punch in those 4 basic criteria and you'll see what I am talking about.
