Koh Samui · Homes on nominee or Thai-company structures
Keep your Samui home.Put the land on solid ground.
If your home sits on a nominee or Thai-company structure, there is a legal way forward. A genuine Thai buyer purchases the land at fair value, and you keep living in your home on a registered lease of up to 30 years.
- Genuine Thai ownership, at fair value
- Registered lease of up to 30 years
- Contracts by an independent licensed Thai lawyer
- Confidential from the first message
Thai buyer or investor? See what you get
Auctions
Open bidding rounds for Thai buyers.
Samui land with a registered lease already on it, offered to verified Thai buyers in an open, timed round.
How bidding works
Verified Thai buyers
Only Thai buyers whose identity and own funds are verified can make offers.
Offer a % of the valuation
Offers are a percentage of the independent valuation, so every listing compares fairly.
Hidden reserve, soft close
The seller's minimum stays hidden. A late offer moves the closing time, so nobody wins by sniping.
Award, lawyers, Land Office
The award goes to each side's own independent lawyer, then the sale and the lease are registered at the Land Office.
The risk
A structure that works until someone checks it.
Foreigners cannot own land in Thailand. Many Samui homes were bought with a Thai friend or partner on the title, or through a Thai company whose Thai shareholders put in no money of their own. Both can be nominee arrangements, and nominee arrangements are illegal.
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The law is plain
Section 113 of the Thai Land Code makes it an offence for a Thai person to acquire land on behalf of a foreigner. A private agreement saying the land is really yours does not protect you. It is evidence against the arrangement.
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Companies get checked
Land offices can ask Thai shareholders to show where their money came from, and authorities have investigated companies that exist only to hold land for foreigners.
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Nominees fall out, sell, borrow or die
If the person on the title turns against you, mortgages the land, sells it, or passes away, you may have no claim a court will enforce.
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Selling gets harder
Careful buyers and their lawyers look closely at how a property is held. A doubtful structure narrows who will buy, and at what price.
We cannot make an existing nominee structure legal.
We can help you move to one that is: genuine Thai ownership of the land, and a registered lease that protects your use of the home.
How it works
A real sale. A registered lease.
The land goes to a Thai buyer who pays for it and truly owns it. You keep the house and your right to live in it, secured by a lease registered at the Land Office.
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Free, confidential assessment
You tell us how the property is held today, and we tell you plainly which routes are open. Your own independent licensed Thai lawyer then reviews the title, any company and any side agreements.
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Fair valuation
The land is valued at a fair market price. The price paid is the real price, with nothing handed back later.
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Matching
We introduce you to Thai buyers and investors who want secure, long-term lease income and who buy with their own money.
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Due diligence on both sides
Title, permits and building records for the buyer. Identity and source of funds for everyone. Each side can have its own lawyer.
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Sale and lease, registered
The buyer takes title at the Land Office, and your lease of up to 30 years is registered on that title. Where it fits, your ownership of the house is secured separately, for example with a registered superficies or usufruct.
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The old structure is closed properly
The former company or nominee arrangement is unwound, with an independent licensed Thai lawyer handling the filings.
What this never includes
If a deal needs any of these to work, it is not a deal we arrange.
- No side agreements.
- No hidden loans behind the purchase.
- No secret buy-back or option to take the land.
- No control over the owner: no pre-signed transfers, no proxies, no holding their title deed.
- No nominees, of any kind.
For homeowners
You built a life here. Keep it, on terms that hold.
For foreigners who own or live in a Samui home held through a Thai nominee or a Thai company.
What you keep
- The house. A building can be owned by a foreigner, separately from the land.
- The right to live there for the lease term, registered at the Land Office and binding on any later owner of the land.
- An arrangement that is exactly what it says it is.
What changes
- The land genuinely belongs to someone else. They are your landlord.
- A registered lease runs for up to 30 years. A renewal clause is a promise between the parties, not an automatic right.
- Rent is agreed openly, in the lease.
This may fit you if
- Your land is held by a Thai company or a Thai individual on your behalf.
- You have had questions from the Land Office about your company's shareholders.
- Your relationship with the person on the title has changed.
- You want to stay on Samui for the long term, legally.
For Thai buyers & investors
Own Samui land outright, with a tenant from day one.
For Thai individuals, and Thai companies with genuinely Thai capital, who want land on Koh Samui and steady lease income.
What you get
- Full ownership of the land, with the title in your name at the Land Office.
- A registered long-term lease with a tenant already living in the home.
- Rent agreed in writing.
- Due diligence on the property and the tenant, by your own independent licensed Thai lawyer.
What we ask of you
- You buy with your own funds and can show where they come from.
- You decide as the owner. Nobody else holds your title deed, your signature or your choices.
- No side agreements, ever.
- The house on the land usually stays with the tenant. You own the land.
Questions
Straight answers.
Isn't this just a nominee arrangement with extra steps?
No. The Thai buyer pays fair value with their own money and becomes the real owner. There is no side agreement giving the land back, no loan behind the purchase and no control over the owner. That is the whole difference, and each side's own lawyer can check it.
Can the owner sell the land while I lease it?
Yes, it is their land. A registered lease stays attached to the title, so a new owner takes the land subject to your lease.
Why only 30 years?
Thai law caps a land lease at 30 years. Renewal clauses can be written in, but they are contractual promises, not guaranteed extensions. We will not tell you otherwise.
What happens to my house?
A building can be owned separately from the land, including by a foreigner. Where relevant, your lawyer can register a right such as superficies that records your ownership of the house on the land title.
What about my existing company or nominee?
It is unwound properly as part of the process, with an independent licensed Thai lawyer handling the filings. Every case is different, which is why it starts with an assessment.
What if I would rather sell, or move into a condo?
Both are clean routes. We can help you sell at a fair price to a genuine buyer with the old structure properly unwound. Or you can own a condominium unit freehold, within the building's foreign quota of up to 49% of the unit area, paid for with funds brought in from abroad.
Are you lawyers?
No. We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice. Contracts and registrations are drawn up by an independent licensed Thai lawyer, and each side can use its own. We make the match and coordinate the process.
Is my enquiry confidential?
Yes. What you send through this site is stored on our own server, used only to reply to you, and not shared without your agreement.
Next step
Find out where you stand.
Tell us how your home is held. We reply by WhatsApp or email, in confidence, with the routes that are open to you.
- Genuine Thai ownership, at fair value
- Registered lease of up to 30 years
- Contracts by an independent licensed Thai lawyer
- Confidential from the first message