Condo blue book

[LOG54]

Hello,

 

I have a condo (farang quota) and my buyer (farang) insists in getting the condo blue book I never had myself.. The condominium is 30 years old and I imagine it has been lost a long time ago but never affected the property transfer including this time.. Is it possible to get a duplicate of the blue book somewhere ? Or does the buyer have to do directly a yellow book..

To get a yellow book I think a non immigrant visa is required ? Can the new owner get it with a tourist visa ? I imagine I cannot do it anymore as I am no more the owner

Thank you

Have a good night

 

[OneMoreFarang]

My company had a visa agent. And I asked him and someone else from the company went with me to some office and there I got the blue book - I think it was months after I bought the condominium. It was not expensive, maybe 2000B or something like that.

Maybe just ask an agent.

I have a work permit and business visa. I don't know if that was required. 

[DrJoy]

24 minutes ago, LOG54 said:

Is it possible to get a duplicate of the blue book somewhere

Yes, at your district office (Khet)

[LOG54]

Thank you..I thought blue book was only for thais and for propery address and a farang name could not be in it but a farang could have a blue book (with property direction) + a yellow book with his name written as living in the property.. but according to what I read "permanent" visa is needed .. non 0, business etc but not tourist..

Thanks a lot

[LOG54]

2 minutes ago, DrJoy said:

Yes, at your district office (Khet)

Thank you

[NickyLouie]

27 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

My company had a visa agent. And I asked him and someone else from the company went with me to some office and there I got the blue book - I think it was months after I bought the condominium. It was not expensive, maybe 2000B or something like that.

Maybe just ask an agent.

I have a work permit and business visa. I don't know if that was required. 

*** LOL

you got robbed by someone

 

It's like 50 or 100 baht for a replacement if you have the chanoot.

 

in Pattaya it is done at the city hall building

 

[OneMoreFarang]

7 minutes ago, NickyLouie said:

*** LOL

you got robbed by someone

 

It's like 50 or 100 baht for a replacement if you have the chanoot.

 

in Pattaya it is done at the city hall building

 

I didn't feel robbed. I had no idea where to go, what to fill in, etc.

I hired a company/guy to help me. He did everything for me, I think I just signed a form or so and all was fine.

I am willing to pay people for their service if it makes my life easier.

 

If you know where to go and what to fill in, fine. I did this the first time and probably the last time.

[Peterw42]

9 hours ago, LOG54 said:

Hello,

 

I have a condo (farang quota) and my buyer (farang) insists in getting the condo blue book I never had myself.. The condominium is 30 years old and I imagine it has been lost a long time ago but never affected the property transfer including this time.. Is it possible to get a duplicate of the blue book somewhere ? Or does the buyer have to do directly a yellow book..

To get a yellow book I think a non immigrant visa is required ? Can the new owner get it with a tourist visa ? I imagine I cannot do it anymore as I am no more the owner

Thank you

Have a good night

 

In places like Pattaya, a new (blank) blue book is issued when the property is transferred, but otherwise, as others have mentioned, a replacement can be obtained at local ampher/tessabaan.

You may want to point out to the buyer that blue book has nothing to do with ownership, and is somewhat irrelevant for a foreign quota condo with no Thais living there.

 

Also, you are confusing having a yellow book for a property going in a yellow book.  You can usually get a yellow book issued for a property, at the same ampher/tessabaan. Being listed in a yellow book is a different matter and the requirements are different at each office.

[LOG54]

Hello

When I transfered the property to my buyer in Sattahip the Land Office did not issue a blue book.. just amended the channot.

The transfer was done by the real estate company. Don't know if they had to ask for it and if it still can be obtained there ?

Have a good day

[Peterw42]

9 minutes ago, LOG54 said:

Hello

When I transfered the property to my buyer in Sattahip the Land Office did not issue a blue book.. just amended the channot.

The transfer was done by the real estate company. Don't know if they had to ask for it and if it still can be obtained there ?

Have a good day

Not all land offices will provide a new blue book at transfer, obviously sattahip is one of the offices.

As mentioned above, the new owner simply has to go to the ampher tessaban, with their channot, and request a new book.

[LOG54]

Thank you..I sold my condo 2 years ago and the buyer insulted me yesterday through phone as "all his friends" have a blue book, I am dishonest and intimating he takes a lawyer and I must do the procedure and get him... But first of all I was not the owner (I had proxy for the sale).. and now not being an owner I cannot do it.... Was maybe drunk as I never heard from him for 2 years and this now comes out

Thank you

Have a good day

[LukKrueng]

On 2/2/2025 at 6:56 AM, Peterw42 said:

In places like Pattaya, a new (blank) blue book is issued when the property is transferred, but otherwise, as others have mentioned, a replacement can be obtained at local ampher/tessabaan.

You may want to point out to the buyer that blue book has nothing to do with ownership, and is somewhat irrelevant for a foreign quota condo with no Thais living there.

 

Also, you are confusing having a yellow book for a property going in a yellow book.  You can usually get a yellow book issued for a property, at the same ampher/tessabaan. Being listed in a yellow book is a different matter and the requirements are different at each office.

 

On 2/2/2025 at 6:59 AM, LOG54 said:

Hello

When I transfered the property to my buyer in Sattahip the Land Office did not issue a blue book.. just amended the channot.

The transfer was done by the real estate company. Don't know if they had to ask for it and if it still can be obtained there ?

Have a good day

1. The blue book has nothing to do with ownership of the property. It is simply a registration of who lives in the house\condo.

2. Condo units are not divided to Thai\foreign quota. Any one can buy a unit from anyone - Thai from Thai, foreigner from Thai, foreigner from foreigner, Thai from foreigner. When a foreigner wants to buy ANY unit, the condo management has to issue a letter stating that at that point in time foreign ownership had not reached 49%.

3. A blue book must be issued to the property in order to get residential electricity. Therefore the OP's unit must have been issued with one when the building was completed.

4. There's no need to issue a new blue book when buying\selling property, and usually no new book is issued, and definitely not by the land office as they have nothing to do with it. They don't know nor care who resides in the property. As with any official document that was lost - one would have to report the loss to the police, then go to the tesaban\ampoe and get a new one.

 

I bought a few units in the past. I got the blue book for done of the units but not all. Didn't bather me as I didn't have to register anyone living there. I recently sold a unit without a blue book, to a Thai person, and I told the buyer I don't have the blue book. Not an issue. As the buyer's main radiance is elsewhere they will probably keep their house registration (official address) wherever it was before, and if they still want a blue book all they'll have to do is report to the police the loss of the book and get a new one from the ket.

[LOG54]

Thank you.. and noted.. yes.. I purchased and sold 2 condos in the last 25 years and neither received, then neither given to new owner the blue book as I didn t have.. and never bothered to make a yellow book.. For your info electricity has been changed into new owner name 2 years ago without yellow or blue book.. don t know why suddenly now after 2 years (and the real estate company told me they informed my buyer that time that there was no book but they could help him with getting one) he "urgently" needs this book and wants me to do it... which I cannot as he is the owner for 2 years

Have a good day

[khunPer]

On 2/1/2025 at 3:04 PM, LOG54 said:

Is it possible to get a duplicate of the blue book somewhere ? Or does the buyer have to do directly a yellow book..

A copy of the blue house book should be possible to get issued by the local "tessa ban" district office. As owner of the property, you shall be listed a "host" or "house master", so you is the one that can dicide who can be registered as living at that address.

 

The blue house book follows the property and registers Thai residents. A yellow house book is for registration of foreign residents in the property.

[LOG54]

I am no more the owner for 2 years and didn't provide this book as didn't have it myself... I told the buyer (who is on the channot) to go to Tessaban to do it as I have no way to do it myself.. but he insists I have to do the procedure as he has "no time to lose"..

No option from my side otherwise would help with great pleasure 

Thanks everyone!

[thaiowl]

I am in the blue book at our house in Bangkok (I have PR and so must be registered in a blue book). I own a condo in Hua Hin which has a blue book in the original developer's name (my name is on the chanote). Because I am already registered in a blue book in Bangkok, does that mean I cannot have the blue book for my Hua Hin condo changed to my name as well?

[couchpotato]

27 minutes ago, thaiowl said:

I am in the blue book at our house in Bangkok (I have PR and so must be registered in a blue book). I own a condo in Hua Hin which has a blue book in the original developer's name (my name is on the chanote). Because I am already registered in a blue book in Bangkok, does that mean I cannot have the blue book for my Hua Hin condo changed to my name as well?

If you are in fact registered in the blue Tibbian Baan in Bangkok, then you come under the same rules as a Thai person, who can only be registered once (ie: in only one Tibbian Baan). As the Blue Tibbian Baan is for the persons household registration only, then you cannot be registered at 2 addresses.

The important thing is your name on the Condo Chanoot. The Tibbian Baan really isn't that important, as it does not pertain to any ownership rights, only address registration.

 

(PS..some foreigners who own a Condo (and DO NOT have PR) can usually obtain a Yellow Book if they so choose.

 

Hope this helps.

[SAFETY FIRST]

On 2/2/2025 at 6:56 AM, Peterw42 said:

In places like Pattaya, a new (blank) blue book is issued when the property is transferred

Blue book is not blank, lots of information within 

[thaiowl]

3 hours ago, couchpotato said:

If you are in fact registered in the blue Tibbian Baan in Bangkok, then you come under the same rules as a Thai person, who can only be registered once (ie: in only one Tibbian Baan). As the Blue Tibbian Baan is for the persons household registration only, then you cannot be registered at 2 addresses.

The important thing is your name on the Condo Chanoot. The Tibbian Baan really isn't that important, as it does not pertain to any ownership rights, only address registration.

 

(PS..some foreigners who own a Condo (and DO NOT have PR) can usually obtain a Yellow Book if they so choose.

 

Hope this helps.

Thought as much...thanks.

[Soondae]

On 2/1/2025 at 9:31 PM, LOG54 said:

Thank you..I thought blue book was only for thais and for propery address and a farang name could not be in it but a farang could have a blue book (with property direction) + a yellow book with his name written as living in the property.. but according to what I read "permanent" visa is needed .. non 0, business etc but not tourist..

Thanks a lot

So I brought my condo given Blue Book to Hua Hin Immigration to update my ages old TM30 at Imm request. The lady processed me an updated TM30, then mentioned to me that "Do you know this Blue Book is not in your name but a Thai?" I looked surprised... she said don't worry it doesn't matter, you are the owner. Oh I do have Non-Imm O on my annual extensions.