Chief of Phuket Provincial Land Office, Paitoon Lertkrai said his deep concern toward the land selling in Phuket that is then to people that is not from Phuket.

“I do not mean just people from other countries, I mean anyone not from Phuket,” he said.

“I really worried about the future of Phuket people. Right now they selling their land which most of the buyers are people from other provinces or Thai companies. What about the future generation, if they keep selling the land, there is nothing left for them except poverty,” said Mr. Paitoon, who is originally from Surat Thani.

“I want Phuket people to keep their land for their children… and their children’s children. If they sell it all, where will their children live? They should sell only some of it and the remaining was for their children to live on,” he advised.

His concern has grown out of the recent spike in volume of land transfers being processed at the Land Office in Phuket Town.

“Just today [December 28, 2010] our office earned more than 10 million baht in transfer fees alone. We transferred ownership of about 200 titles today,” he explained.

“On average, we earn about four million baht a day.” he added.

Mr Paitoon pointed out that during the fiscal year October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Phuket Land Office earned about 1.3 billion baht in transfer fee revenue.
News by Phuket Gazette