Registering A New Build Property

[okinasan]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

[Krub]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

If you have a 30 years lease duly registerred at the land office, the lease contract should cove ryou for using the land as you wish including building a property on it.

As far as I know once that os done there is no obligation to register the property as such.

If all goes well and the second 30 years term is agreed by the landowner and yourself you will need to register it also in the land office (at that time) to make it valid for the second 30 years term.

For the telephone line I would contact the TOT office with your adress and apply for a line.

Internet access can then be contracted with their agent CS loxinfo or others.

You might get more detailes fresponses in the Chiang Mai forum

[Dragonman]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

Could you clarify a couple of things? Who is the name registered on the chanote as legal owner? If it's your missus and you don't care if she also owns the house, don't need to do anything. But if you want to register the house( not land) in your name ( meaning you will own the house) this can be done at Land Office.

[Krub]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

Could you clarify a couple of things? Who is the name registered on the chanote as legal owner? If it's your missus and you don't care if she also owns the house, don't need to do anything. But if you want to register the house( not land) in your name ( meaning you will own the house) this can be done at Land Office.

I have not been able to find out how or where you can register ownership of property (being non Thai) at the land office.

Land is as far as I know the only 'thing' they will register and you must be Thai. They will also register lease contracts for land.

Could you explain how a non-Thai can have his property registerred under his name ?

[Dragonman]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

Could you clarify a couple of things? Who is the name registered on the chanote as legal owner? If it's your missus and you don't care if she also owns the house, don't need to do anything. But if you want to register the house( not land) in your name ( meaning you will own the house) this can be done at Land Office.

I have not been able to find out how or where you can register ownership of property (being non Thai) at the land office.

Land is as far as I know the only 'thing' they will register and you must be Thai. They will also register lease contracts for land.

Could you explain how a non-Thai can have his property registerred under his name ?

I can only say that it is an office within the Land Department or Amphur. Many offices don't seem to have a clue. Isn't there a lawyer in your area who understands thai property law and can do it for you?

[Krub]

We are having our home built on a small development in Chaing Mai --having first got a Channott deed lease for 30 years (renewable twice) on our land. We are aware that the house has to be registered, but have no idea how to go about this, and the English builder/developer is being less than helpful at this stage . Can anyone advise, as we have had no luck in contacting the Thai Embassy here in London. Also, we need a telephone line and internet access -- how do we go about this?

Newby to all this,

okinasan

Could you clarify a couple of things? Who is the name registered on the chanote as legal owner? If it's your missus and you don't care if she also owns the house, don't need to do anything. But if you want to register the house( not land) in your name ( meaning you will own the house) this can be done at Land Office.

I have not been able to find out how or where you can register ownership of property (being non Thai) at the land office.

Land is as far as I know the only 'thing' they will register and you must be Thai. They will also register lease contracts for land.

Could you explain how a non-Thai can have his property registerred under his name ?

I can only say that it is an office within the Land Department or Amphur. Many offices don't seem to have a clue. Isn't there a lawyer in your area who understands thai property law and can do it for you?

Has any TV member done this registration with success ?

Registering a property on a leased land in a farang's name ?

What is it called in Thai ? What are the papers you have to provide ?

What paper do you get after registerring ?

Thanks

[hellohello]

Ive been asking this same question for years and havent meet a Farang yet who says he /she has registered their house seperate to the land. I have found the below statement on a few websites which says it can be done:

Buildings other than condominiums do not have any form of title document, but their sale or long lease can be registered at the Ampur (district) land office. Proof of ownership, must be established either from proof of construction or document showing previous sale-purchase (do not confuse this with the House License document, which is only a register of the house's occupants).

Transfer of a building as distinct from its land requires the posting of 30 days public notice (to see if anyone wishes to contest the ownership). Foreign nationals (aliens) may own a building (as distinct from its land) and may register such transfer of ownership into their names at the local district office.

Good luck HH

[monty]

Normally the developer should have handled this part already!

The normal sequence is as follows:

1) Obtain land (in your case the lease, combined with Chanoot)

2) Architect draws the house plans.

3) These plans are submitted at the district to obtain building permit.

4) When the district approves the plans, they will issue the building permit, accompanied with a brand new house book (Tabien Bahn).

5) Construction of the house can commence.

The housebook together with the building permit are the official documents proving the existence of the house, and it will state the address of the house and also the owner of the house.

If the owner is the constructor (or his company), the book will have to be updated after completion of the house, so it states you as the real owner.

The owner can be a foreigner. In the case a foreigner owns the house, the house book will be yellow instead of blue.

All this happens at the district office (Or Bor Thor), Land and House department does not handle this part, they only handle land, not the structures on it.

Edited March 3, 2006 by monty