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Property, trading pose high credit risk
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 25/12/2025
» The Bank of Thailand has expressed concern over rising credit risks among some large corporations with high debt-to-equity (D/E) ratios, particularly in the property and trading sectors.
Real estate price war on the horizon
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 13/08/2025
» The slowdown in the real estate sector is expected to trigger a price war in the property market and dampen the purchasing power of upper-income homebuyers.
BoT allays deposit run concern
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 22/09/2020
» The central bank insists it is not worried about a possible deposit run after pro-democracy demonstrators called for a boycott of a commercial bank.
Second mortgages fall hard after LTV curbs tame market
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 11/10/2019
» Second and subsequent new mortgages, particularly for condo purchases, plunged 39% year-on-year in the three months to June after the central bank's tougher loan-to-value (LTV) regulations came into force in April.
Red flag raised on household debt spiral
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 11/07/2019
» Two key committees under the Bank of Thailand have voiced concerns that threats to financial stability are still on the rise as household debt accumulation accelerates.
Analyst: Mortgage concerns not urgent
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 29/09/2018
» Risks from overextended mortgage lending, which has the Bank of Thailand concerned, will not lead to the kind of systematic risk that snowballed into the Asian financial crisis in 1997, given that the majority of presales are real demand, says Kasikorn Research Center (K-Research).
Fragile residential market presaged
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 06/07/2018
» A higher ratio of new mortgages with loan-to-value (LTV) rates exceeding 90%, the increasing loan-to-income (LTI) proportion and deteriorating bad mortgage rates all point to the residential property market's fragility, warns the Bank of Thailand's Monetary Policy Committee and Financial Institutions Policy Committee.