Condos and apartments for sale in Bangkok

Bangkok condo prices per square metre, district by district

A city-wide average for Bangkok tells you nothing: the same 70 m² unit costs 8 million THB in On Nut and 16 million in Silom. The figures below come from our own listings rather than from a market index. They cover the 755 condominium units currently for sale with Five Stars in Bangkok, grouped by BTS and MRT corridor and reported as medians so that a few penthouses cannot skew the picture.

Median of the asking prices published in our catalogue in August 2026, divided by the indoor area of each unit. Districts with fewer than ten listings are not shown. Across all 806 Bangkok units we list, the median is 162,996 THB per m².

How to read these numbers

The gradient is almost perfectly a walking-distance-to-a-station curve, and secondarily a river curve. From On Nut at 134,000 to Silom at 209,090 is a spread of about 55 %, and the whole of it is bought back in commute time and in rental demand.

Three practical readings. If you are buying to live and work in the CBD, Sathorn, Silom and Ratchadamri give you a walk to the office, and you pay 200,000 and up for it. If you are buying for rental yield, the Ekkamai to Phra Khanong and On Nut corridors at 134,000 to 148,000 are where the arithmetic works: the tenant pool is large, the units are smaller and easier to relet, and the entry price is roughly 30 % below the CBD for a ten minute BTS ride. If you are buying space, Riverside and Rama 3 is the anomaly on the table: 201,612 per m² looks expensive until you notice the median unit is 138 m², nearly twice the city median, with river views.

One warning about Phrom Phong to Thong Lo, our largest sample at 266 units. The median of 182,460 hides an unusually wide range, from around 126,000 in the older buildings off the main sois to well over 230,000 in new low-rise projects. In this district more than any other, the building itself, its age, its management and its position on the soi drive the price more than the postcode does.

What a foreigner can legally own in Bangkok

Bangkok is the one Thai market where a foreign buyer gets the cleanest legal answer available in the country, and that is the main reason to buy a condominium here rather than a house.

Freehold condominium, in your own name

Under the Condominium Act a foreign national may own a registered condominium unit outright, with the title deed in their own name, with no time limit and full rights of resale and inheritance. This is genuine freehold, not a long lease. The restriction operates at building level: foreign owners may hold no more than 49 % of the total saleable floor area of any given condominium. Popular buildings on Sukhumvit and in Sathorn regularly run out of foreign quota, and units are then sold to Thai buyers or on leasehold, at a visible discount. Before you commit, insist on a written confirmation from the condominium juristic person that quota is available for your specific unit, plus a debt-free letter for the common area fees.

The money has to arrive the right way

This is a legal condition of registration and not a bank formality. The purchase funds must be remitted from abroad in foreign currency and converted into baht by the receiving Thai bank, with the purpose recorded as the purchase of a condominium. For transfers of USD 50,000 or more the bank issues a Foreign Exchange Transaction Form. The Land Office requires it on the day of registration for a foreign buyer, and it is also what allows you to repatriate the proceeds when you sell. Baht sent from a Thai account, or funds converted outside Thailand, do not satisfy the rule, and the registration will simply be refused. More remote purchases fail on this point than on any other.

Land, houses and the company question

A foreigner cannot own land in Thailand in their own name. For a Bangkok house or townhouse, the routes are a registered lease of the land, capped at 30 years and enforceable against third parties only once registered on the deed, combined where appropriate with ownership of the building itself, which Thai law treats as separable from the land, and with a right of superficies or a usufruct. A Thai limited company may hold land, with a foreign shareholder up to 49 %, and that is lawful for a company with real activity and real shareholders. It is unlawful when the Thai shareholders are nominees with no economic interest. That structure has been the subject of Land Department scrutiny for years and the exposure falls on the buyer. If it is offered to you as a shortcut to freehold land, it is a risk, not a product.

Buying a Bangkok condo without being in Thailand

1. Shortlist and live viewing. We visit the unit on a video call while you direct the camera: the actual view from the window rather than the brochure render, the noise from the expressway, the condition of the common areas, the lift waiting time at 8 am. For off-plan we send the developer's licence, the approved plans and the construction permit.
2. Reservation and sale agreement. A reservation deposit, typically 100,000 to 200,000 THB, holds the unit during due diligence. The agreement is bilingual, and the Thai version prevails in a Thai court, so your own lawyer reads it, not the seller's.
3. Due diligence. Title deed and ownership chain at the Bangkok Land Office, mortgages and encumbrances, the foreign quota certificate, the debt-free letter, the sinking fund position and the minutes of the last co-owners meeting. That last document is the one nobody reads and the one that tells you whether a major facade or lift renovation is about to be voted.
4. Transferring the funds. Foreign currency, from abroad, purpose stated. Keep the Foreign Exchange Transaction Form.
5. Power of attorney. Signed with certified passport copies, witnessed at a Thai embassy or consulate or notarised and legalised at home, naming the specific unit and the specific transaction. Generic wording is refused at the counter.
6. Registration. A few hours at the Land Office. Payment by cashier's cheque released against the officer's registration. Title deed issued the same day, in your name.

Costs on top of the purchase price

Talk to an agency that is actually in Bangkok

Five Stars has been selling Thai property since 2006 from an office on South Sathorn Road in Bangkok, with listings across Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Phuket and Pattaya. We answer in English and in French. Tell us your budget, the corridor you are considering and whether the unit is to live in or to let, and we will come back with the buildings in the districts above that fit, with the foreign quota position checked before you get attached to anything.

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