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Why Invest - Thailand? Why Invest - Eastern Seaboard? Why Invest - KohChang?
What is a Lifestyle Investment ?
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Why Invest - Thailand ?
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Lifestyle investment is a growing worldwide trend, as successful people start to consider not only the material aspect of their investments, but also wish to benefit from their investments on a personal level, reaching a better, more relaxed, higher quality time for their remaining lifetime.
Other luxury goods that the affluent may aquire, such as luxury cars, designer products of all sorts, yachts etc. enhance the lifestyle as well, but can hardly be considered as investments, since they lose their value rather quickly.
A tropical luxury home at a prime location both improves the lifestyle of its owner considerably, and will not only keep its value, but bring handsome returns over time.
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Thailand has won many times in a row awards for the most preferred tourist destination worldwide. There must be strong reasons for this high attraction. A home in the everlasting summer is a dream many people from the colder climates heed.
Real Estate prices in Thailand have steadily increased over the last decade. Yet - comparing prices with other destinations in the area, Thailand until today is still a bargain. The price levels in Vietnam or Malaysia come in 2-3 times higher than Thailand, and Singapore prices are even much higher.
And Thailand prices come in at a bargain that comes with huge advantages: a highly developed infrastructure, ease and quality of western oriented services, a large international community to socialize with, and with a BIG smile.
Thailand is developing plans to not only become a travel hub for the entire region, but a world medical hub where patients fly to just for the purpose of getting medicare, at higher quality and much lower prices than in their own home countries.
What other place is better prepared for hosting the baby boomers that are starting to retire in the years ahead?
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Why Invest - Eastern Seaboard (Pattaya) ?
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A Place in the Sun for Baby Boomer Retirement
The Eastern Sea Board is the most prosperous region in all of Thailand. The GDP per head is even slightly higher than the GDP of the Bangkok area. The Eastern Seaboard is not only the major tourist destination in Thailand, but is often referred to as the "Detroit" of Asia, since it attracted most major motor vehicle manufacturers and their auxiliary businesses to the area, which together with a large petrochemical industry has spurred dramatic economic growth for this region.
Combined with Thailand’s largest expatriate community outside Bangkok, Pattaya has grown into a bustling metropolis which lacks no infrastructure, amenities and facilities of any kind.
Apart from the vibrant city centre, life is typically sub-urban in residential areas such as Siam Royal View. The expatriate as well as the local Thai communities are involved in an abundance of social, cultural and club / charity activities.
Culinary tastes from all corners of the earth may be tasted at the area’s over 1,000 restaurants, ranging from McDonald’s fast food, through traditional Thai cuisine at all levels, through inexpensive fisherman style sea food shanties by the seaside to high level "Chaine du Rôtisseur" style, exclusive restaurants, both independent and at the large hotels. The colourful night life is regulated and restricted into zones. The expatriate community however prefers the numerous night spots featuring live music or other "off the beat" type locations for their evening recreation. There is a place for every taste, ranging from quite romantic piano bars, to lively Irish pubs, through blue
s, jazz and rock & roll places, Dinner Dances or Moulin Rouge style Cabaret shows. A stroll down the world famous Walking Street is a must.
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Pattaya offers a huge selection of shopping, department stores, boutiques, markets and supermarkets where you will find nearly everything a foreigner is accustomed to from home.
Multiple International Hospitals, Clinics and Dental Clinics offer high-grade medical care which apart from their attentive service and high quality health care are famous for inexpensive medical and dental treatment and therefore attract large numbers of medical tourists to the area.
Indeed, Thailand boasts some of the most talented surgeons in the field of reconstructive and plastic surgery as well as other medical specialities.
Considering this modern, western-oriented infrastructure and dynamics the citiy offers, combined with the low cost of living, it is hard to find any other location in the world that is so well suited to host the baby boomer generation as it is increasingly turning into retirement.
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Why Invest - KohChang
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"Earn Money From Your Holiday Home"
When you buy a home at The Siam Royal View KohChang Village, you invest in a true luxury private island lifestyle.
The care and devotion to providing the highest quality product is evident in everything, from the design of our villas to our in-house services.
Due to its status as a national park, land availability on Koh Chang is very limited. Availability of land on the highly prized stretch from the ferry terminals to White Sand Beach is even more limited as large portions either belong to the Royal Thai Navy or have been declared nature conservation areas.
Siam Royal View Koh Chang is one of the last large beach front land parcels in the prime area of the island.
Through its shape and location, the land is in its self very unique, interesting and beautiful. Peace, quiet, and privacy are guaranteed through a complete enclosure of the land by nature preservation area, land belonging to the navy and the ocean.
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Land of this quality is very unique not only in Thailand, but world wide. Unique, prime locations will always find an interesting market and the scarcity of the supply will drive prices significantly up on a mid- and long term basis.
One very unique feature of the land is the two sided access to the sea. The project boasts and extraordinary shore line to area ratio, meaning the number of direct sea front plots that can be developed is unusually large.
The project boasts almost 4 kilometres of shoreline, of which over 2 km are sandy beaches. Additional assets are the project’s direct access to the island’s ring road (and thus electricity) and a private boat pier along with river access for the marina. Also the surrounding area and greenery through the national park is a valuable asset of this project. The projects beaches are only accessible from within the project guaranteeing privacy.
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The major asset however, apart from its beauty, is the project’s location.
Why is Koh Chang an interesting place to invest ?
Koh Chang will be the next Phuket !
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However, it is now possible to buy property at Siam Royal View in superior quality but at a fraction of the cost that similar property in Phuket would require.
There is no doubt, however, that demand in Koh Chang will remain strong and that prices will increase considerably over the next years.
Land values in Koh Chang and its environs are expected to appreciate strongly as top brand resort and hotel chains plan new properties in the area.
The property market in Koh Chang is still relatively new, but capital growth has been averaging in excess of 20% per year for most of the last few years.
Hotel room prices are some of the highest in the kingdom, and yet all hotels are fully booked, sometimes even overbooked, during the high season.
Based on this strong demand, rental income returns can be considered strong compared to other areas.
However, there is another aspect to consider; overcrowded building development such as in Phuket will never happen on Koh Chang thanks to the stringent building codes and nature conservation regulations that have been imposed here.
The quality of living for those who prefer unspoilt natural setting will remain high in spite of the ongoing development, since this happens in an ecologically conscious way.
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Thus development of the property market may be as speedy and financially rewarding as that of Phuket, but on a more ecologically sustainable basis. And indeed, the government has implemented multiple infrastructure projects as a basis for rapid development.
Many VIPs of Thailand have been known to have invested in land in the Koh Chang archipelago.
Koh Chang is the last major group of virtually undeveloped tropical islands in Thai territorial waters.
The Koh Chang / Koh Kood archipelago has a larger combined land mass than that of Phuket and Koh Samui together. Chang island its self is only approx. 20% smaller than Phuket island.
Koh Chang can be conveniently reached by car from both Bangkok and Pattaya and will thus become the playground of the rapidly growing economic power house represented by the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand, the area surrounding Pattaya.
As the cruise industry, ex the new Laem Chabaeng Port Cruise Terminal, grows in the Gulf of Thailand, Koh Chang will continue to provide an ideal stopover for all cruise routes entering or leaving the Gulf of Thailand.
Expect a large yachting industry to establish around Koh Chang, possibly based out of Pattaya, as the Koh Chang archipelago provides some of the most scenic and interesting yachting grounds in the Gulf. The first few mega yachts out of Hong Kong and Australia have already been spotted scouting the pristine waters around the island.
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