On The Transaction – FazWaz Conference
Last weekend (Friday 9th March), the FazWaz team from across Thailand got together in Hua Hin to discuss the future of the transaction in Thailand. FazWaz employees from a combination of Phuket, Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Hua Hin and Samui got tog...Read More
Russian property buyers rising again in Phuket
From Russia with Love might is a James Bond 007 thriller but it has also been a mantra for island developers as the past nine months has seen a strong uptick in demand in Phuket real estate by Russian buyers. According to the recently released Phuket...Read More
Why selling property too fast is bad business?
One of the most common mistakes by property developers in hot markets or with premium properties is the misconception that a fast sell-out is good. It’s often hard for real estate sales people whose mantra follow’s the ABC’s (always be closing) to un...Read More
Phuket Commercial Land Parcels Soar
Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra might be gone but who can forget those tuneful lyrics “Fly me to the moon,let me play among the stars, let me see what spring is like, on a Jupiter and Mars, in other words…” Well in other words what has taken flight in Ph...Read More
Malaysia considers restricting foreign property purchases
A hot topic over the past month has been the Malaysian government’s review and possible increase of the set minimum of investment in property by foreign buyers.Currently the level for the most part is RM1 million (approximately USD225,000), The trigg...Read More
Splendid Condominium, Kata, Phuket
Sweeping views across Kata Bech and the Andaman Sea. Splendid Condominium is a b...
From gentrification to terrification
How can suburbs never be the same, but will always look the same? People are scared, especially of interiors. The design world continues to provide a plethora of normative options and confusing variety of the same thing. Beige is the order of the da...Read More
Snapchat for real estate? Reality bites
.The year was 1984 and MTV was still a rising infant terrible. Onto the scene popped up a new artist named Corey Hart with his video “Sunglasses at Night” and the rest is one-hit wonder music history. These days MTV has gone the reality television ...Read More
Dr. Seuss lets the cat out of the luxury bag
Is the cat in the hat? Or is the mouse a house? Rhyming Simon Dr. Seuss always had a way with words but maybe the cat has been let out of the bag. Making international luxury news recently was data in from online reseller Reebonz about the soaring v...Read More
Living upside down in a post-Titanic world
A world without Celine Dion would be a far, far, far better place. But let’s hold that one for later. For years my growing dissatisfaction with residential designers rest on the modern abandonment of the seemingly simple rule of architecture that for...Read More
Turning on the lights
Trick question. What uses more power? Siam Paragon in Bangkok or the entire province of Mae Hong Son (with 250,000 residents)? The astonishing answer is, of course, Siam Paragon. By a factor of DOUBLE the power consumption of the north-western Thai p...Read More