Pattaya Lagoon Estate

[johnh101]

I have driven around this new estate a few times (just off soi 17 near the Lion Bar) and cannot figure it out. There are some beautiful houses but a lot of them are for re-sale already. Also large areas of wasteland which no-one seems to know what they are going to do with.

Does anyone have any information on this estate?

[johnh101]

Does no-one know anything about it ?

[davethailand]

I think its hideous on there, i'm really glad i did'nt buy one.

New houses, half for sale already and alot are lived in by about 10 thai people which is'nt what i want.

[johnh101]

Cheers Dave, That's what I am trying to figure out. A friend has just rented on there and its a really beautiful house at a good price. We are now looking to buy but I cannot figure this place out. The houses are nice but why are so many for sale when they cannot have been lived in for 1 year ?

They are building a beautiful pool area right besidewhat looks like a big <deleted> of stagnant pond (I presume that's the lagoon) and right beside that a huge area of wasteland full of snakes and soi dogs that no-one seems to know what they are doing with........what gives ?

On a side I talked to the developer yesterday and they offered me a house for 3.9m baht (its only 2.9 on their website) and <deleted> tiny.

[Ungabunga]

Hi John, I was going to buy here last year but was spared my blushes by a local agent and what he told me turned out to be true: The development is by a Thai based developer and if their other villages are anything to go by, this will eventually become run-down, no-one will pay the maintenence fee, the security will bugger off and then you'll be left sitting in a house that is difficlut to re-sell. Proof of this lies in their other developments: Check out TW City Homes, Tanyawan Place, Raviporn etc to glimpse what may lay in store. This nevertheless is only my opinion, but I hope it helps.

[fxm88]

I think its hideous on there, i'm really glad i did'nt buy one.

...pretty much sums up all the housing projects I've ever seen in Thailand!

[Hobgoblin]

This is typical of the Rattanakorn group.

I rented a place there for 6 months... and this is *not* the kind of village you want to invest in. The houses are poorly built.... uneven tiles, poor paint trimming... everything indicitive of cheap, untrained, whisky-fueled, fresh-out-of-Surin labor.

The houses are built mimimally, with the thought that those who buy them will remodel them. Another typical Thai method akin to building the wall, finishing it, painting it, then knocking out a huge hole for a window, finishing it again and painting it again.

Because of this, homes can look however they like.... so there is no unity to anything like in View Talay. They built the property walls only 1m high, WITH holes in them... which means no privacy, something that should come with homes of these prices.

In a few years, it will look like just another unkempt, rundown neglected village. The roads will have potholes that will never get fixed, the beautiful pool they built will eventually fall into disrepair.

Not to mention the STUPID dolphins and windmills they recently erected in the middle of the "swamp". They did a beautiful job with the swimming pool end of the swamp, until they put a giant blue "Swimming Pool" sign there. It's just gaudy.

Oh, and NO HI-SPEED INTERNET! The TOT lines they installed throughout the village CANNOT receive TOT's DSL for some reason. A friend of mine who owns a house there is beside himself because of this.

All in all, this village is not worth the land it sits on. It sits on reclaimed SWAMPLAND that sits 2 meters below the ground.