Thailand · THA · snapshot 2026-08-16
Thailand
Measured
Currency movement
+1.0%
The local currency bought fewer euros at the end of this window than at the start — a cheaper entry for a euro-denominated buyer, and a worse exit for anyone already holding the asset.
What it does not show. It is not a forecast and not a property return. A currency move and a price move are different facts and routinely point opposite ways; nothing here says which way either is going next.
Foreign-buyer rules
2 of 2 published rules apply
These are the restrictions a foreign buyer meets before price is even discussed — approval regimes, surcharges, ownership limits.
What it does not show. It is not a completeness claim. A rule we have not read is not a rule that does not exist, and this row counts what is cited, not what is in force.
Cost of money
1%
The price of money to banks in this jurisdiction, which sets the floor everything else is priced from.
What it does not show. It is emphatically not a mortgage quote. What a non-resident is offered is a different number, usually much higher, and the gap between them is where a market's financing story actually lives.
Supply against absorption
Licence unconfirmed
Only one national statistics agency has been read and cleared for publication so far. For every other market the data exists and the permission to republish it does not.
Residential price cycle
Not measured
Thailand is not an area in the OECD analytical house prices dataflow.
Valuation against its own history
Not measured
Thailand is not an area in the OECD analytical house prices dataflow.
On the market now
Not measured
No listings platform has been read for this market. The one platform this site can read covers Russian cities only, and inventing a count for anywhere else would be worse than an empty row.
No dossier has been written for this market yet. What follows is the measured layers and the rules, each with its source — not an argument about whether to be here. A market reaches this page as soon as two layers can be cited, because an unwritten thesis is a reason to publish less, not a reason to publish nothing.
The series behind those figures, and the workings
Currency
+1.0%
Twelve-month move in THB per euro, 37.8827 in 2025-07 to 38.2595 in 2026-07. Positive means the local currency weakened. Source: European Central Bank monthly reference averages.
38.3160
Latest daily fixing, THB per euro on 2026-08-14. Shown because it is what a reader would see if they went and looked; the window above uses monthly averages, which one volatile day cannot move.
Against other base currencies
A market is cheap or dear relative to the capital entering it, so the same twelve months read differently depending on what the buyer holds. Both legs are quoted per euro, so the euro cancels and no third source is involved.
| Buyer holds | THB per unit, 2025-07 | THB per unit, 2026-07 | Twelve-month move |
|---|---|---|---|
| US dollar (USD) | 32.4425 | 33.5096 | +3.3% |
| Pound sterling (GBP) | 43.8108 | 44.8048 | +2.3% |
| Swiss franc (CHF) | 40.6262 | 41.3360 | +1.7% |
| Singapore dollar (SGD) | 25.3225 | 25.9452 | +2.5% |
| Australian dollar (AUD) | 21.2083 | 23.3351 | +10.0% |
Cost of money
1%
Central bank policy rate, 2026-07. Source: Bank for International Settlements.
This is the price of money to banks, not the price of money to a non-resident buying a building. The gap between those two is where a market’s financing story actually lives, and it is not in this number. A mortgage quote for a foreign buyer depends on the lender, the asset and the borrower, and no public dataset carries it.
BIS terms permit this figure on a free page and state that nothing in their statistics constitutes investment advice. They also allow inclusion in a commercial product only where it adds no charge, so this series is published here and is not priced into any paid work.
Background
Annual national statistics from the World Bank, under a licence that permits reuse with attribution. They describe the country; they do not time an entry, and they are not counted as measurements of this market — otherwise every territory on earth would claim to be measured on the strength of one dataset.
| Indicator | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|
| GDP per capita | 8,057 US$ | 2025 |
| Consumer price inflation | -0.1 % | 2025 |
| Population | 71,619,863 | 2025 |
| Urban population | 62.8 % of total | 2025 |
| Official exchange rate | 32.8828 per US$ | 2025 |
What the rules do to a foreign buyer
Each entry cites the instrument and the authority page it was read from, with the date it was retrieved. Facts of law change; the retrieval date is how you know how old this reading is.
| Topic | In force | When it bites | Applies to | What applies | Instrument | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Condominium quota for foreign buyers | In forceNot stated by the source | On the way in | Residential only | Foreign ownership in a condominium is capped at 49%, and the cap is per building rather than per buyer: once a building is full, a foreign buyer cannot purchase in it at any price. At registration the Department of Lands requires a letter from the condominium juristic person confirming the foreign proportion has not been exceeded. Official summaries state the measure differently — the Royal Thai Government portal describes 49% of the units, while the Condominium Act is framed on the aggregate floor area of all units. Which basis applies decides which specific units remain available, so confirm it for the building in question. | Condominium Act B.E. 2522 (1979), as amended | 2026-08-10 |
| Land is a different question | In forceNot stated by the source | On the way in | All property | The 49% route applies to condominium units. It is not a route to land: foreign freehold ownership of land is not generally available, which is why structures involving Thai companies or long leases are common, and why the ownership question in Thailand is structural before it is financial. | Condominium Act B.E. 2522 (1979); Land Code | 2026-08-10 |
What is missing, and why
valuation — Source does not cover this market
The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.
Thailand is not an area in the OECD analytical house prices dataflow.
What supports this, what would make it wrong, and how it could go
Record
| Why this market is on the list | Recorded in ADR-0003 §5 as a second destination module. Added here because its foreign-ownership rule is a hard quota rather than a tax, which changes what a buyer can do rather than what it costs them. |
|---|---|
| Dossier | None written. Layers and rules only, which is why this market reads as “Measured” rather than reviewed. |
| Next review | 2026-11-10 |
| Evidence snapshot | 2026-08-16 |