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Thailand Targets Nominee Companies. Are Foreign-Owned Villas at Risk?

Real Estate Thailand / Siam.Villas

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Thailand has launched large-scale inspections of companies registered under Thai nominee shareholders. The crackdown affects not only active businesses but also companies that many foreigners have used for years to own villas and land. What is really happening? Should foreign property owners be concerned? And are the rules for doing business and owning real estate in Thailand starting to change?

In this video, we explain who these inspections target, what could happen to companies registered with nominee shareholders, whether foreign-owned villas are at risk, and why this issue has become one of the hottest topics across Phuket, Koh Samui, Pattaya, and the rest of Thailand.

If you're planning to move to Thailand, start a business, or invest in Thai real estate, this video is a must-watch. Understanding the new regulations today could save you from making a very expensive mistake tomorrow.

Chapters:
00:00 Business Crackdown in Thailand
00:30 What's Happening? Who Is Being Investigated?
02:19 Why Is This Happening Now?
02:31 What Are Nominee Companies?
03:28 Common Ownership Schemes
04:25 What Happens to Foreign-Owned Villas?
06:06 What Should Business Owners Do Now?
08:00 Are Condominiums Affected?
10:17 Leasehold Land Funds Explained

#thailand #business #investing #samui

11 Comments

@philipdevonald1273 1 month ago

Its ashame Europe didn't adopt the same policy

@Patatovski 3 weeks ago

What a load of propaganda !!!
Expats sought legal advice from Thai solicitors. Yet not much is spoken of this, they just left like thieves in the night
Where is their accountability and where is the penalty and jail for these charlatans

@lotharingien9426 13 days ago

I'm afraid of one thing : in case of a condo, if the land office is run by corrupt people who got an agreement with a lousy developper and accepted more foreign owners than the 49% authorized, who will be responsible ? The farang or the real estate guy who did not check the list of the condo owners ? Because obviously the land office is never responsible for anything ! Some of the ownerships will be illegal. Owners will be prosecuted ?

@williamwallace6508 2 weeks ago

the leasehold structure totally destroys the villa market from both a legal and from an investment standpoint. Its finished.

There will be a deluge of foreigners going to lose the lot, including both developers and anyone who purchased a villa using a nominee structure. The Thais will pick up the scraps at a deep discount, which is why they are pursuing this so vigorously!

@pbinken7373nxjd 1 month ago

2026 DOL orders are expanding nominee checks to Thai buyers with foreign spouses, including scrutiny of funding, mortgages, leases and benefits granted to the foreign spouse. This risks putting ordinary Thai-foreign families buying homes with foreign funds under investigation.

@jackskellington9195 1 month ago

What part of “ foreigners cannot own land in Thailand “ do people not understand ?
As a guest in the Kingdom , one does things how Thailand wants them done
If you don’t like it, there are many other countries, but you always have to abide by the rules and laws
In many countries and areas it gets gentrified, and then the locals can’t afford in their own towns, province or countries to own a house because foreigners have driven the prices up so high Just look what was done in America Hawaiian islands
Locals have been pushed out

@laupewoh 2 months ago

Oh sounds scammy

@Joh-d5i 1 month ago

What crap

@jan-f9v1r 23 hours ago

Welcome realestate crash and out with foreign investment

@AussieBob999 1 month ago

To allow a system of property ownership for Expats for over 20 years and then suddenly arrest them and take all the money they paid is totally unacceptable. That would never be allowed in a 1st world country that is based on law and order - welcome to Thailand. We are getting out very soon - the banking farce was the final straw for me - this and so many other things are examples of why retiring to Thailand is not good anymore. Try Vietnam or Philippines if you are looking in SEAsia. If you are a young bloke then definitely Vietnam because the bar girls are much better and prettier than the dregs in Thailand. There is a lot more money for the Thai bar girls overseas than in Pattaya etc. and that is where the better prettier ones go now. In Dubai etc. a very friendly and pretty Thai bar girl can make more money in a few weeks than what the girls are now making in Thailand.

@clivebaxter6354 3 weeks ago

But she does not mind Thais buying land and houses abroad, running businesses and even voting and easily getting passports in the countries they move to. Thailand gives foreign residents nothing in return, residency is only for those working in the same job for 3 years, people retired here for 20 years have no more rights or security that a tourist on holiday.