Author: Mike Riemer

The housing market will improve slightly this year, with more than 80,000 units of new supply serving pent-up demand from last year’s fourth quarter and the higher incomes of civil servants. Sopon Pornchokchai, president of the property consultant Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA), said last year’s floods affected 23 housing projects which were subsequently […]

Soi Dog’s newly planned Dog Hospital will be one of the largest and most modern dog hospitals in Thailand! Our current Hopsital is tiny and badly injured and sick dogs have to be kept in small cages, often stacked on top of each other. As soon as these dogs are out of danger they have […]

Transport Minister ACM Sukumpol Suwanatat backs calls for an electric train assembly facility to supply trains for the country’s mass-transit rail projects. Prapas Chongsanguan, former governor of the Mass Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA), floated the plan. ACM Sukumpol said if a local assembly facility is to be set up it must have large orders […]

Thailand’s eastern double-track railroad linking this province with Chonburi’s Laem Chabang opened Thursday, and expanding the country’s road and rail logistics system with a connection to the deepwater Laem Chabang Port. Deputy Transport Minister Pol Lt-Gen Chat Kuldilok presided over the railway’s opening ceremony. The railroad will also support the Lat Krabang Inland Container Depot […]

Listed Thai development firm Raimon Land have continued to pursue a portfolio of projects in Pattaya. Those launched already include Northpoint, Northshore, Zire Wongamat and the latest UNIXX. Unit sizes go from studios at 22 square meters up to two bedrooms of 62 square meters. Pricing starts at THB880,000 or installments of THB4,400 per month. […]

PRESS RELEASE: The MRT Purple Line is a rapid transit line under construction in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, which includes the city and five adjacent provinces. Among other things, elevated structures and 16 stations need to be built for the 23 kilometer long main line. Thai BAUER Co. Ltd., a local subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau […]

Thailand’s most valuable real estate is located on Bangkok’s Silom Road, with property worth Bt850,000 per square wah (4 square metres), followed by the capital’s Rajprasong intersection, the epicentre of last year’s red-shirt political rally, where each square wah fetches Bt800,000, according to the Treasury Department. Average land prices nation-wide increased 21.34 per cent over […]

Italian-Thai Development Plc will initially require an investment of about Bt240 billion to develop the infrastructure in Dawei, a designated industrial zone in Burma that covers about 200,000 rai. Somjet Tinnapong, managing director of Dawei Development Co Ltd – a subsidiary established to handle the development, said in an interview to Krungthep Turakij that the […]