Most of the day today was spent driving around looking at condos. I thought that it would be very easy to find one. After all, if I look out the window of my apartment near Thong Lo, I can see about 20 low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings -- and that's just in one direction.
But, as Piyawat and I found out today, 90% of those apartment buildings are serviced apartments. We had no idea that there was such a huge market for people to pay outrageous amounts of money to rent an apartment with maid service. (Most of the rents started around 60,000 baht. Compare that to the 7,500 I pay now...)
So, of the 10 apartments that looked nice from the outside in the area that we liked, exactly 0 of them had condos for sale. How disappointing! I guess this week we'll just have to hit the Internet and see what can be found there.
Recently I was at a BTS... either Chitlom or Nana and spent a while looking in the window of a new real-estate place there. They have lots for sale, all over (and rent) - worth a look, maybe?
Hmm... Do you mean in the station itself? Or just near the station? I saw one at the Phrom Phong station. It looked like they were targeting farang for sure, because the prices were pretty high. I'll check out the other two you mentioned as well.