{"id":162,"date":"2025-07-02T04:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/building-permits-as-proof-of-ownership-for-foreign-property-owners-in-thailand\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:10:40","slug":"building-permits-as-proof-of-ownership-for-foreign-property-owners-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thailawonline.com\/fr\/building-permits-as-proof-of-ownership-for-foreign-property-owners-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Les permis de construire comme preuve de propri\u00e9t\u00e9 pour les propri\u00e9taires \u00e9trangers en Tha\u00eflande"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Building permits<\/a> in Thailand are the usual evidence that a foreigner owns a house built on land he cannot own. The ownership itself comes from the Civil and Commercial Code<\/a>, not from the permit. Section 146 provides that a building which a person with a right over another person’s land builds in the exercise of that right is not a component part of the land. Without such a right, the building becomes part of the land and belongs to the landowner, whatever name is on the permit (sections 144 and 1310); the builder in good faith is paid only the increase in the land’s value, and a builder in bad faith can be made to remove it at their own cost (section 1311). The permit is evidence of who built; the right over the land, ideally a registered lease<\/a> or superficies<\/a>, is what makes the building his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legal foundation for this separation is Thailand’s distinction between land ownership and building ownership, which lets a foreigner lawfully own a house while the land stays in Thai hands. It is not a way around the land restrictions: the foreigner owns the building, never the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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