My girlfriend has a 70% interest in a 300 square wah property with eight-year old house and several out buildings in Baan Kohlung, Amphur Maetha - thats about 30 kms from Lampoon and 45 kms from Chiang Mai. The other 30% is held by her step mom who also wants to sell .... one problem though, this property came into their possession through inheritance and they actually don't know the area. My gf lives hundreds of miles away in Bang Saen.

Anyway, how does she go about putting this place on the market, contacting a real estate agent, advertising? For some reason, my gf thinks there are no r/e agents there and that I need to "just put it on the internet" ("only Farang cities - Pattaya, and rich Thai cities have real estate agents", that's what she says).

When I ask her about the price she wants to charge, it gets all very mysterious. She doesn't have a clue. She thinks she can go to the local land office and they will tell her the value of the land. The value of the house is the difference between the selling price and land office price. But she doesn't know how to value the house before the sale. This is for real, folks.

Any advice will be most welcome.

Just call any real estate agent in chiang mai, they might be able give you some suggestion and prices on your gf lumphun house. Since she is in bang sean, it is better to appoint an agent from the north or put up your sale at www.chiangmainews.com. Hope this help.

Thanks, Thaising, that site is a good starting point. I guess we'll go on up to Chiang Mai in the next month or two and spend a few days speaking to these agents, figuring out a reasonable asking price (that's the hard one, I think), hanging a sign on the property and then sit back in, waiting for the offers to flow in ... ha ha. I bet it'll take a year. Mai me pan ha.

Not to argue the distance exactly, but Lamphun city and Mae Ta are at opposite north-south ends of a long province. I had students from both, and it's a long commute. And I wouldn't put Lamphun city 15 kms from anything but Saraphi. I admit to having taught briefly at Chiang Mai Inter college, and only a few kids even commuted daily from amphur muang at the north end of Lamphun, to the south end of Chiang Mai.

My guess is that the few realtors in central Chiang Mai province you can find, would consider amphur muang way too far away, and Mae Ta much further.

Good luck. I hope I'm wrong.

I sent you a PM.

Put a sign on the propety, in Thai of course.

IME Thai property usually sells by word of mouth.