From landscape to a property project

1 of 6 · The national plan

The city must not exceed 3.24 % of the country by 2037

The plan caps urban land at 3.24 % of the territory in 2037, against 2.39 % in 2021, and classes 54.98 % of the country as development zone: a misleading name, since it also includes farmland. The lights are the 6,227 delivered developments we track.

% of the territory at most for the city, the plan's target

3.24%

% in the baseline

2.39%

2 of 6 · The edge · Chiang Mai

In Chiang Mai, the city has left the city

Watch the lights come on, year after year: the centre first, then the countryside. Before 2000, 20 % of our developments were built outside the city and 12 % were villas; since 2018, 64 % are outside the city and 70 % are villas, on the rice fields of Hang Dong, San Sai or Saraphi.

% of recent developments built outside the city

64%

% of older developments

20%

3 of 6 · The walls · Chiang Mai

Inside the walls, almost nothing is for sale

The plan lists Chiang Mai among the old towns to conserve and restore. In Si Phum sub-district, the old town inside its moat, we track only 4 developments; in Suthep, to the west, 72. The old town is rented and restored, but no longer built.

developments tracked inside the walls

4

in Suthep

72

4 of 6 · Bangkok · around the stations

In Bangkok, the city already rises around its stations

The plan wants to mix homes, offices and shops around public-transport stations, as at Punnawithi. The market got there first: 58.6 % of the towers of thirty floors or more we track are within five hundred metres of a station, against 42.3 % of all developments; the asking price is 126,919 ฿ (€3,307) per m² right by a station and 62,670 ฿ (€1,633) beyond two kilometres.

% of thirty-floor towers near a station

58.6%

฿ per m² right by a station

126,919 ฿/m²

5 of 6 · The East · who is it built for

In Si Racha, buildings for workers; behind Pattaya, villas

The plan wants to house workers in Si Racha and Ban Chang. The market already builds for them: a development has a median 377 homes in Thung Sukhla, at the port of Laem Chabang, and 353 in Si Racha; behind Pattaya, in Pong, 12, nearly always houses. Our guide to cities and jobs sets this port against the plan's ranks.

homes per development in Thung Sukhla

377

in Pong, behind Pattaya

12

6 of 6 · The method

Before buying at the edge, read the local plan

The national plan says how much the city can grow overall; the provincial or municipal town plan says what a plot can carry. At the edge, ask about the permitted land use, the protection of neighbouring farmland and connection to water and wastewater.