Every market foreigners buy into has its own legal minefield. We build a country-specific rulebook for each one, starting where the danger and demand are highest. Bali, Thailand and Dubai are live today.

An estimated 10,500 properties held in illegal nominee structures (K3NI). 2026 regulation now criminalises these arrangements with asset seizure. The most urgent market for Australian buyers, and fully covered today.
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A 2025 Supreme Court ruling struck down the "30+30+30" lease-extension trap many villa contracts still use — the legal cap is 30 years. Meanwhile Thai authorities have flagged 46,918 companies for nominee investigation (DBD, 2025). Foreigners can own condos freehold within the 49% quota — 14,899 transferred in 2025. We check the structure, the developer, and the contract against these Thai-specific risks.
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Foreigners can own freehold here — but only in designated areas, and most sales are off-plan. Dubai law requires every off-plan payment to sit in a RERA-supervised escrow account (Law No. 8 of 2007), with sales recorded on the DLD's Oqood register before any title deed exists. We check the developer, the project registration, the escrow routing, and the contract against these UAE-specific risks.
Check a Dubai deal →Coastal and border-zone property must be held through a bank trust (fideicomiso). Misused or poorly structured trusts, and unregistered developers, are common ways foreign buyers get burned. Our fourth market and first in the Americas.
Target: Q1 2027Foreigners can't own land and are capped at 40% of any condo project — a limit that's easy to breach unknowingly. "Dummy" ownership arrangements carry real legal penalties, and developer track record varies widely.
Target: 2027Foreign buyers are limited to 50-year leasehold-style ownership and strict per-building foreign quotas. Pink-book title status and developer solvency on off-plan projects are the traps that catch buyers from abroad.
Target: 2027Structured regional waves: the Mediterranean & Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, France) and the Americas (Costa Rica, Panama) — off-plan deposits, title-deed and illegal-build risk for relocating buyers.
Target: 2028Buying somewhere not listed here? Tell us where. We prioritise new markets based on real buyer demand, and we'll let you know the moment yours is covered.
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