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Developers demand urgent measures
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 24/11/2025
» Real estate developers have reiterated their calls for the government to expedite financial and tax relief measures, noting the sector is on track to record its lowest growth in two decades.
State advised to help support senior housing
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 30/11/2024
» The government is being urged to support senior housing projects by offering tax incentives and low-interest loans.
Low-cost rent policy targets low-income people, farmers
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 29/06/2024
» The Finance Ministry has announced a policy to allot 260,000 rai of state land to low-income individuals and farmers at minimal rental rates.
Ministry urges help for homebuyers
Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/12/2023
» Policymakers in the Finance Ministry recommend the government implement measures to improve the property sector, helping to stimulate the economy next year, says a ministry source who requested anonymity.
Land tax teeters
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 30/10/2020
» The persistent pandemic crisis at home and abroad is a decisive factor in whether the long-awaited land and building tax, which is the Fiscal Policy Office's (FPO) brainchild of 25 years, will produce the desired impact or not.
GH Bank urges larger home pool
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 20/02/2020
» State-owned GH Bank is set to propose the Finance Ministry raise the ceiling price of homes entitled to the bank's low-rate mortgages under the government's 1-million-unit budget residential scheme to 1.2 million baht per unit from 1 million, but the new maximum will be restricted to those located in Greater Bangkok.
GH Bank plans savings lottery for cheap loans
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 22/01/2020
» State-owned GH Bank wants to launch a 50-billion-baht savings lottery to offer low-rate housing loans after the central bank loosened loan-to-value (LTV) requirements.
Landowners panic over tax changes
News, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/12/2019
» Operators of homestay and home-sharing premises will soon face much higher commercial property tax than buy-to-let homeowners who pay residential rates, the Finance Ministry says.
Buy-to-let classified as 2nd homes
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 25/12/2019
» Owners of buy-to-let residences in both low- and high-rise projects should feel more at ease after the Finance Ministry made clear that these properties will be taxed according to the second-home category in cases where more than one house is owned under the new land and buildings tax.
GSB offers cheap mortgages
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 26/11/2019
» The state-owned Government Savings Bank (GSB) is offering 25 billion baht in low-rate mortgages, at 0.01% per year with a 10-baht instalment payment for every 1 million baht loaned for the first year.