Looking for Phuket Real Estate Web Sites

[3dom]

Good day!

Need help finding (illustrated) web-based real estate listings (properties for sale): need some "real-time" information but could only find Phuket Gazette and some semi-dead sites with like 6-18 month old information. Please point some Phuket real estate sites with refreshing information - if they are exist at all.

(please don't advice to use search on forum - I'm pretty bad as posts/messages bloodhound)

Is it true prices are lowered for like 5-10% during last 6-9 months? (found something like that on thaivisa)

Thanks!

[K2]

Welcome to the board 3dom.

This site is quite good:-

Ayudhya Real Estate Brokers - Invest in Quality of Life

Phuket Gazette is probably best place to start out and to find a sensible price that has not had a silly broker mark up put on it.

Phuket's land pretty much hold steady despite the tsunami, THB collapse and the coup. It really is only the price of existing homes that may fluctuate - even then very modestly.

Do not expect drop in asking prices as the few Thai-Chinese families that own most of the available build able land will never take a loss - they rather sit and hold ... however long it takes, and this mentality means land prices hold up very well.

Buying existing or new built property is relatively straight forward if you wish to do so (good lawyer etc etc needed) but I would strongly advise you to live here renting for at least a year to really get to know the market, build up contacts and choose a place to settle down.