Can a foreigner buy waterfront land in Thailand?

Foreigners generally cannot own land in Thailand, waterfront included. The routes people use instead are a registered long lease, which can run up to 30 years at a time, or a unit in a registered condominium building, where foreign owners may hold up to 49% of the total unit floor area. This is general information rather than legal advice — take it to a Thai lawyer before committing.

Who owns land that builds up along a riverbank?

Under section 1308 of the Civil and Commercial Code, land that forms naturally along a bank belongs to the owner of the adjoining plot. In practice it still has to be surveyed and added to the title before it counts as yours, and land you fill in yourself is not natural accretion.

How is the price per square metre on this site calculated?

It is the asking price divided by the floor area, or for rentals the monthly rent divided by the floor area. The area comparison is calculated from our other listings in the same area and deal type, excluding the property you are looking at. Where fewer than two comparable properties exist we show no comparison at all rather than an unreliable one.

Do I have to fill in a form to get your contact details?

No. The phone number, LINE id and email sit on every listing page. We are not selling leads on to other agents, so there is no reason to put a form between you and an answer.

No one is making more waterfront

We list only what we have stood on and seen from the water. Fewer properties, each visited in person, each with its river frontage, its price per square metre, and how it compares in its own stretch of the river. Every listing reaches us directly.

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What we deal in

Waterfront land

Undeveloped land with frontage on a river, canal or the sea. Every plot states the width of that frontage and the…

Waterfront houses

Houses built to face the water, from timber homes on the canals to detached houses with their own landing.

Waterfront condominiums

Units in buildings that face the river or the sea — and the one route by which a foreign buyer can hold Thai property…

Waterfront resorts

Resorts, homestays and waterside hospitality businesses, sold as going concerns or as the property alone.

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Redwood Villa Pattaya pool villa, Na Jomtien — three bedrooms, 200 m from the beach

For sale

Pattaya & Chonburi

Redwood Villa Pattaya pool villa, Na Jomtien — three bedrooms, 200 m from the beach

฿35.9M

House 3 Bedrooms 520 sqm Swimming pool

Price per sq wah · ฿276,154 / sq wah

Waterfront plot inside Lakewood Golf Club, Bang Na — 431 sq wah on the 8th

For sale

Waterfront · Lake

Samut Prakan

Waterfront plot inside Lakewood Golf Club, Bang Na — 431 sq wah on the 8th

฿11.5M

Land 1 rai 31 sq wah (1,724 sqm) 42 m Water frontage

Price per sq wah · ฿26,682 / sq wah

For sale

Silom

Restored century-old teak house, six bedrooms, in the middle of Silom

฿76M

House 6 Bedrooms 464 sqm Swimming pool

Price per sq wah · ฿655,172 / sq wah

Thirteen rai of sea-view land at Pa Khlok, Phuket — a hilltop panorama over Phang Nga Bay

For sale

Waterfront · Sea

Phuket

Thirteen rai of sea-view land at Pa Khlok, Phuket — a hilltop panorama over Phang Nga Bay

฿32.5M

Land 13 rai (20,800 sqm)

Price per sq wah · ฿6,250 / sq wah

Riverfront land on the Mae Klong at Photharam, Ratchaburi — 24 m of frontage

For sale

Waterfront · River

Ratchaburi

Riverfront land on the Mae Klong at Photharam, Ratchaburi — 24 m of frontage

฿2.5M

Land 59.8 sq wah (239 sqm) 24 m Water frontage

Price per sq wah · ฿41,639 / sq wah

Elevated sea-view land at Pa Khlok, Phuket, over Phang Nga Bay

For sale

Waterfront · Sea

Phuket

Elevated sea-view land at Pa Khlok, Phuket, over Phang Nga Bay

Price on request

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Where we work

The Chao Phraya and the main canals — stretches where we know the frontage and the prices things actually change hands at.

The Chao Phraya

Ayutthaya

Where the Chao Phraya, Pa Sak and Lopburi rivers meet. Riverfront land here costs distinctly less per rai than the provinces closer in.

1 properties

Samut Prakan

The river mouth before the gulf — brackish water, wide plots, and close to the port and industrial estates.

1 properties

The Mae Klong

Ratchaburi

The upper Mae Klong. Affordable river frontage, with hills behind it in places.

1 properties

The Tha Chin

Samut Sakhon

The mouth of the Tha Chin — brackish, with old shrimp and salt farms that increasingly change hands as retreats.

1 properties

Coastal

Pattaya & Chonburi

The eastern seaboard — a rental market that runs all year, with both beachfront land and sea-view apartments.

1 properties

Phuket

Sea-view and beachfront land on Phuket, from Pa Khlok and Ao Po on the east coast round to the Andaman shore in the west.

2 properties

Phang Nga and Koh Yao

Koh Yao Noi, Koh Yao Yai and the Phang Nga coast — quieter ground, with the whole of Phang Nga Bay in view.

1 properties

Inner Bangkok

Silom

The old financial district — busy by day, alive at night, and still better value per sqm than Sukhumvit.

1 properties

Lat Phrao and Lat Pla Khao

Residential north Bangkok, where large plots are getting scarcer each year and development land still changes hands.

1 properties

What is different here

Price per sqm and water frontage, on every listing

The one number that lets you compare two properties honestly. We show it, and how it sits against the neighbourhood average.

Direct contact, no gate

Phone and LINE are on the page. No sign-up, no lead form standing between you and an answer.

Thai and English, equally

Every listing is written in both languages, not machine-translated from one.