Property purchase calculators
Estimate what buying a property in Thailand costs on top of the price, and how a developer's installment plan spreads the payments.
Transfer taxes and fees
Taxes and fees are paid at the Land Office on the day ownership is transferred. Who pays which item is agreed in the sales contract.
The Land Office's own valuation, often lower than the price. Leave it as the price if you don't know it.
Only for a mortgage registered at the transfer.
Estimated costs
Transfer fee
2% of the appraised value
฿60,000
Specific business tax
3.3% of the price or appraised value, whichever is higher: company sellers, or owned for less than 5 years
฿99,000
Withholding tax
Progressive income tax on the appraised value, by years of ownership
฿34,500
- Buyer pays
- ฿30,000
- Seller pays
- ฿163,500
- Total taxes and fees
- ฿193,500
This is an estimate, not tax or legal advice. The Land Office calculates the actual amounts on the day of the transfer from its own appraised value and records, and rates and relief measures change. Ask us for the figures for a specific property.
Developer payment plan
Off-plan units are usually paid in stages: a reservation deposit, a payment at contract signing, monthly installments during construction and the balance at the transfer.
Part of the price.
About the months until completion.
Payment schedule
- Reservation deposit
- ฿50,000
- At contract signing (15%)
- ฿450,000
- 24 monthly installments (15%)
- ฿18,750 / month
- Paid before completion
- ฿950,000
- Balance at the transfer (68.3%)
- ฿2,050,000
Transfer taxes and fees come on top at the transfer: see purchase costs.
This is an example. Each developer sets its own deposit, installments and dates, and they differ between projects and change over time. Ask us for the figures for a specific property.