Yanvit Land And House, Ubon

[ontherig]

Hi everyone,

Anyone use Yanvit Land and House in Ubon?

They have office on the main street of Ubon opposite Robinsons/KFC.

Thanks

[sezzo]

I have a friend who used them to build a house in Khemarat about 8 or 9 years ago. From what I heard they were good tradesmen and honoured the contract. Apparently good english skills by the owners of the business.

I am also looking at buying/building when I get back to Ubon in 3 months. Does Yanvit have a new development going on and if so, where abouts is it

Thanks,

[ontherig]

I have a friend who used them to build a house in Khemarat about 8 or 9 years ago. From what I heard they were good tradesmen and honoured the contract. Apparently good english skills by the owners of the business.

I am also looking at buying/building when I get back to Ubon in 3 months. Does Yanvit have a new development going on and if so, where abouts is it

Thanks,

Cheers for the info...Went and spoke to Yanvit a few days again.

First impressions were very good. The office is a bit of a mess inside but the owner Suporn was really nice, clued up and spoke good English.

They've been going for 25 years - thats why i was looking at them. He seemed like a very down to earth honest bloke.

I'm not sure if Yanvit do developments - i think just individual houses - mainly bigger 200m+ type houses.

There are a new developments in Ubon - but its a Bangkok company doing them - they have 3 developments but i think they're almost finished - 1 was opposite Toyota Deeyiam (best quality/highest prices), 1 near next to Huay Rang Nong Lake near the airport and another which was just off the 2050 Ubon-Trakan road (cheapest). They have an office on Jangsanit Road near roundabout opposite the university. Prices were 1.2 million 1 floor, 2bed, upto 2.8 million 2 floor, 3 bed. Theres another development by another company on the ring road 231 north-east of the airport - prices were higher @2 to 3 million. In Ubon city its the land prices that are expensive not the house build. (eg - got quoted 3 million baht for 1/2 rai land next to Huay Rang Nong Lake).

Edited September 4, 2011 by ontherig

[KunMatt]

They are building a house for us right now. I got a chill when I saw the name in the title as I feared it was about to inform me they were a bunch of cowboys or something!!

Honestly they have been pretty great so far. Suporn has been a decent guy and speaks and writes English well so I was able to stay in touch with him while I was away and discuss and finalize the plans which was something I was really looking for with an architect here.

They also have a great payment plan where you pay 10% at the beginning and then 20% as each stage of the house is finished, and then the final 10% upon completion, again this was very convenient for me for a lump sum house.

We literally stumbled into Yanvit by pure chance as it was the first place we stopped in Ubon to ask for directions to any housing development office without even realizing that was their business! The only thing I have to compare them against are the local villages builders who design process was just to ask me "so how big do you want your house?" and in their mind they were ready to start. We spent the whole day going through books and photos of houses to get the right style and floorplan with Suporn and he has a team that goes to live on the land while they build each stage!! Right now we have the team that builds the foundation and walls, soon will be the roof team and so on.

So far I'm happy with their services. The budget they gave us for everything inside the house i.e floors, lights, doors, bathroom etc is very tight and we will easily blow it, but I guess that is normal for every house build.

Good luck with your new build. I cannot wait until ours is done.

[ontherig]

KunMatt - thanks for your info - much appreciated. It seems to me like they're very well organised and set up.

I had the same deal as you with local village builders and their design services - a piece of paper and pencil and 2 questions "how big do you want your house?" - "how much money have you got to spend?" And also the language problems (my fault entirely) - basically the guy spoke to the missis and i sat there like a lemon!

I've been back to Yanvit a few times now to amend / change floor plans. Suporn emails them to me first. He also said he'd take photos and e-mail them when i'm away working. I plan to be around for the majority of the build.

All good so far.