Real estate developers targeting foreign buyers, especially those in tourist destinations, may need to adjust their business plans to make their products appeal to a wider group of potential customers, according to executives. Udorn Olsson, managing director of Para Development Co, the developer of Panorama Pool Villa in Hua Hin, said the failure to endorse [...]

Internal political problems are having a greater impact on the Thai property market than the global economic crisis, with no transactions made by foreign buyers and investors so far in this traditionally high season, said Duangjai Kraus, managing director of the Hua Hin branch of the property consultant Engel & Volkers (Thailand) Ltd. She said [...]

Exotiq Real Estate, South East Asia’s largest resort focused brokerage, has signed a joint venture agreement with Siam Property Prestige, Hua Hin’s leading property services company. The wide ranging agreement covers SPP’s management of Exotiq Hua Hin, to be located just behind the Hilton Hotel in the centre of town, future branch offices in the [...]

While Phuket and Pattaya´s property markets have boomed over the past few years, with high-rise condominiums and luxury villas projects dotting the respective landscapes, something more moderate has been taking place along the Gulf of Thailand´s western coast. Hua Hin, which was established as the country´s first beach resort by King Rama VII in the [...]

As little as 60 years ago, there wouldn’t be much use in going to what is now Hua Hin unless you had a really soft spot for rickety houses and leaky boats. Called Samor Riang at the time, the little fishing village 200 km south of Bangkok started to gain notoriety when King Rama VII [...]