Thai property documents
Find the same Thai labels on your own document, see what each field means, and learn which details belong together.
Illustrated examples with invented entries. Keep your own documents beside you.
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Choose a document, then select a numbered field.
Find the unit, its registered area and its share of the common property. Then turn it over to follow the registered history.
Condominium ownership certificate with invented entries and a boundary-and-balcony plan.
หนังสือกรรมสิทธิ์ห้องชุด
This heading identifies a condominium ownership certificate, often called a “condo Chanote”. A land Chanote has a different heading: โฉนดที่ดิน. Start with the heading, especially on a black-and-white copy.
What to check
A condo certificate describes a unit and its share of common property. Choose “Land Chanote” if your document says โฉนดที่ดิน.
The condominium title. Field 1: Read the document heading
Start with the unit number and plan on the front. Then read the registration history for later transactions.
All filled entries are fictional. Downloaded images include Blue Horizon Condos branding. For a transaction, confirm current ownership and registered rights with the Land Office.
Open a document below to read every field in order. The sample-image links and this text guide also work without the interactive reader.
Find the unit, its registered area and its share of the common property. Then turn it over to follow the registered history.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)หนังสือกรรมสิทธิ์ห้องชุด
This heading identifies a condominium ownership certificate, often called a “condo Chanote”. A land Chanote has a different heading: โฉนดที่ดิน. Start with the heading, especially on a black-and-white copy.
What to check: A condo certificate describes a unit and its share of common property. Choose “Land Chanote” if your document says โฉนดที่ดิน.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)ตำแหน่งที่ดิน
The upper-left block identifies the condominium’s underlying land: title reference, locality and land area. This is not the floor area of your apartment. Our fictional example uses deed reference 999999 and 2 rai.
What to check: Keep the underlying land reference separate from the unit number at the upper right.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)ที่ตั้งห้องชุด
Look for the unit number, floor, building number, condominium name and condominium registration reference. In this example, the legal unit number is 888/42 on floor 7 in the fictional Example Residence.
What to check: A sales label such as “A-704” is not necessarily the registered number. Ask the juristic office to confirm the link between the sales label and the legal unit number.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)ให้แก่
This names the person or company to whom the certificate was first issued. For a newly registered condominium, this may be the developer’s company. In our example, the company is the developer. Later sales are recorded in the registration history, so its name can remain on the front long after a buyer takes ownership.
What to check: Do not assume the front-side name is still the current owner. Read all later registrations and confirm the current Land Office record.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)แผนผังห้องชุด
The plan shows the unit’s outer boundary, balcony boundary and measurements; it does not show doors or windows in this example. This invented plan has an 8.00 × 5.00 m room (40.00 m²) plus an 8.00 × 0.50 m balcony (4.00 m²): 44.00 m² in total. The room and balcony labels explain how this example totals 44.00 m².
What to check: Read each area label on your own plan. Do not add a balcony again if it is already included in the stated total. Screen size does not preserve the original drawing scale.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)เนื้อที่ประมาณ / สูง
The line below the plan states the unit area and height. Our example reads 44.00 square metres and 2.70 metres high. Compare the deed’s figures with the sale contract and listing.
What to check: Do not confuse square metres (ตารางเมตร / ตร.ม.) with square wah (ตารางวา), which appear in land measurements.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)อัตราส่วนแห่งกรรมสิทธิ์ในทรัพย์ส่วนกลาง
This is a ratio of common-property ownership. The invented example is 44 parts out of 8,800, or 0.5%. It is not an extra 44 m² of private space and it is not a foreign-ownership quota figure.
What to check: Read the numerator and denominator together. For charges, also check the condominium’s registered rules and applicable fee basis.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)ออก ณ วันที่
This example was issued on 15 January 2566 (2023). The later sale, mortgage and discharge have their own dates on the reverse.
What to check: Read a date with its label: issuance, registration and printing are different events.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)พนักงานเจ้าหน้าที่ / ประทับตรา
The circular red-orange ink impression accompanies the issuing official’s signature. Section 21 of the Condominium Act includes the official signature and seal among the certificate’s contents. The sample shows a worn impression and an invented signature.
What to check: This is separate from the printed Garuda above. Read the stamp with the signature and nearby wording; appearance alone does not confirm the current registered record.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)หมายเลขแบบพิมพ์
The serial strip at the lower left identifies the printed certificate form. The Land Office controls its stock of title forms and records the form numbers used. This sample uses 000000. It is separate from the underlying land-deed reference and registered unit number above.
What to check: If asked for this reference, copy the whole printed string, including its prefix. Do not read the small prefix as a year or province code without confirmation from the Land Office.
Department of Lands · control of printed title forms (opens in a new tab)ผู้เขียน / ผู้ทาน / หัวหน้างาน
These three smaller sign-offs are for the staff who prepared the certificate (ผู้เขียน), checked it (ผู้ทาน) and supervised the work (หัวหน้างาน). Other editions use labels such as ผู้ตรวจ and หัวหน้าการ. They are separate from the main issuing official’s signature and seal inside the border.
What to check: These are office-processing details, not a list of owners or later property transactions. Follow the registration table for changes after issue.
Department of Lands · condominium title form and issue procedure (opens in a new tab)Read the date, transaction type and parties together. The last name on the page is not automatically the owner.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)สารบัญจดทะเบียน / ใบต่อ
The registration table can continue onto additional sheets, often headed ใบต่อ. A front page and one photograph of the back may not show the complete record.
What to check: Ask for a complete, legible copy, including continuation sheets. Match their identifying references to the same title.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)จดทะเบียน / ประเภทการจดทะเบียน
Read across each row. ขาย means sale; จำนอง means mortgage; ไถ่ถอนจากจำนอง means discharge or redemption of a mortgage. They do not all transfer ownership. The dates here use Buddhist Era years.
What to check: Follow an earlier mortgage through to the entry that discharges it. Use the number helper below for Thai digits and modern B.E. years.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)ผู้ให้สัญญา / ผู้รับสัญญา
These are the parties giving and receiving under the registered transaction. Their meaning depends on its type: seller and buyer for a sale; mortgagor and mortgagee for a mortgage.
What to check: A bank shown as ผู้รับสัญญา on a mortgage row is not thereby shown as the buyer. Never interpret a party column without reading the transaction type.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)ขาย
On 8 February 2567 (2024), the example developer sells the unit to “Sample Person A”. In this sequence, Person A becomes the owner through this registered sale.
What to check: Compare the seller’s identity and authority with the current registered record. Later rows might record another sale, inheritance or a change affecting the owner.
Department of Lands · Condominium Act (opens in a new tab)จำนอง
On 9 February 2567 (2024), Sample Person A mortgages the unit to “Sample Bank”. This row records security over the property; it does not describe a sale to the bank.
What to check: A mortgage amount in an entry is not necessarily today’s outstanding balance. Obtain current discharge requirements for an actual transfer.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)ไถ่ถอนจากจำนอง
On 12 August 2568 (2025), the bank and Sample Person A appear in the discharge entry. Its reference connects it to the earlier mortgage. Person A remains the owner in this illustrated sequence: discharging the mortgage does not transfer ownership, and no later sale is shown.
What to check: This sample illustrates one discharged mortgage. On a real title, check every entry and continuation sheet with the Land Office before concluding which rights remain.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)พนักงานเจ้าหน้าที่ / ลงลายมือชื่อ ประทับตรา
The rightmost column is for the official’s signature and seal beside each registration. Here the three worn impressions accompany a sale, a mortgage and a discharge.
What to check: Read across to the date and transaction wording. The seal itself does not tell you whether the row is a sale or a mortgage.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)Find the parcel references, read the land area, and follow the boundary drawing. The registration pages tell you what happened after issue.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)โฉนดที่ดิน
This is the land-title heading. The form designation น.ส. ๔ จ. appears at the upper right. The centre drawing describes a parcel of land.
What to check: Match the heading and field labels on your document. The condominium certificate has a different heading and a unit plan.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)ตำแหน่งที่ดิน / ระวาง / เลขที่ดิน / หน้าสำรวจ
Read the map sheet, parcel number, survey reference and subdistrict separately. Our invented parcel is 456, with survey reference 7890 and a dummy map-sheet reference.
What to check: Parcel number 456 is different from deed number 888888. Keep the Thai label with each number when requesting a lookup.
Treasury Department · land references (opens in a new tab)โฉนดที่ดิน / เลขที่ / เล่ม / หน้า
The upper-right block identifies the deed and its filing references. Here it reads deed 888888, book 12, page 34, followed by the fictional district and province.
What to check: The continuation sheet in this guide repeats deed 888888. Match the actual deed and locality references across your own pages.
Treasury Department · land references (opens in a new tab)ให้แก่
The fictional company in this block is the original grantee. The example register later shows sales to Sample Person A and then Sample Person B.
What to check: Read later registrations before identifying the current owner.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)เนื้อที่ / ไร่ / งาน / ตารางวา
The example reads 0 rai, 1 ngan, 20 square wah. That is 120 square wah, or 480 m². The words beneath say one ngan and twenty square wah.
What to check: Read all three units. This is not 1.20 rai. Check later registrations for changes to the parcel or area.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)น / มาตราส่วน
น marks north. Above the map, the example labels the map-sheet scale 1:4,000 and the parcel drawing scale 1:500.
What to check: An image resized on a screen or printer is not a scale drawing you can measure with a ruler.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)รูปแผนที่
The invented parcel number 456 sits inside its outline. Corner circles and adjacent labels identify boundary markers; nearby numbers identify adjoining parcels. This is a boundary drawing, without buildings or room layouts.
What to check: Use the references when discussing an actual boundary with the Land Office or surveyor. This illustration cannot establish on-site boundaries or access.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)ออก ณ วันที่
The fictional issue date is 15 January 2566, or 2023. Later dates on the registration pages describe later transactions.
What to check: Keep issue dates separate from sale and mortgage dates.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)เจ้าพนักงานที่ดิน / ตราราชการ
The circular ink impression accompanies the issuing official’s signature. The illustration follows the faded impression in a reference document; the signature is invented.
What to check: Read the seal with its signature and surrounding entry. The printed red Garuda at the top is a separate part of the form.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)หมายเลขแบบพิมพ์
The boxed serial near the lower edge identifies the printed form. Here it is 000000. It is separate from deed number 888888, parcel number 456 and survey reference 7890 in the upper part of this example.
What to check: Use the field requested by the Land Office. A printed form serial is not interchangeable with the deed or parcel number.
Department of Lands · control of printed title forms (opens in a new tab)เจ้าพนักงานรังวัด / เจ้าพนักงานทะเบียน
This illustration labels survey staff at the lower left and registration staff at the lower right. Staff labels, the number of lines and their arrangement can differ between editions. Read each role with its nearby signature and date.
What to check: Distinguish these preparation and registration-office details from the main issue signature above and the transaction history on the reverse.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)Land registers include area columns as well as transactions and parties. Follow the complete sequence across every sheet.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)ใบต่อ / โฉนดที่ดินเลขที่
ใบต่อ means continuation. This sample repeats deed number 888888 and the fictional locality; its sheet and page labels are at the top right.
What to check: Ask for preceding and subsequent pages too. This example sheet illustrates a sequence; one continuation sheet is not a complete title search.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)วัน เดือน ปี / ประเภทการจดทะเบียน
The four invented rows are sale, mortgage, discharge of that mortgage, and another sale. Their dates run from February 2567 to August 2568.
What to check: A later row does not necessarily transfer ownership. Read its transaction type first.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)ผู้ให้สัญญา / ผู้รับสัญญา
For a sale, read these as seller and buyer. For the mortgage shown here, they are the mortgagor and the bank receiving the mortgage.
What to check: The bank’s appearance in the receiving column is not a sale to the bank.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)เนื้อที่ดินตามสัญญา / เนื้อที่ดินคงเหลือ
These separate groups each have rai, ngan and square-wah subcolumns. The transaction-area cells in our example read 0 | 1 | 20. The remaining-area cells contain dashes.
What to check: Do not merge the two groups or interpret a dash as a measured zero. Read any subdivision, remaining-area and new-deed references with the full record.
Department of Lands · land registration examples (opens in a new tab)ขาย · 8 กุมภาพันธ์ 2567
The fictional company sells to Sample Person A on 8 February 2567 (2024). This explains why the company can remain named on the front while a later owner appears in the register.
What to check: Compare this row with the later sale below.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)จำนอง / ไถ่ถอนจากจำนอง
Person A mortgages the land to Sample Bank on 9 February 2567. The 12 August 2568 discharge refers back to that mortgage. Both rows must be read together.
What to check: An actual title can contain other rights, conditions and cross-references. This invented sequence demonstrates only one mortgage.
Department of Lands · mortgage registration (opens in a new tab)ขาย · 20 สิงหาคม 2568
The last illustrated row is a sale from Sample Person A to Sample Person B on 20 August 2568 (2025). Person B is the resulting owner in this fictional sequence.
What to check: For a real transaction, confirm the complete current record and the seller’s identity and authority.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)ลงลายมือชื่อ / ประทับตรา
The rightmost column is for the official’s signature and seal. The sample uses worn impressions beside each occupied row, following the printed form.
What to check: The transaction wording explains what was registered. A similar-looking seal on another row does not mean the transaction was the same.
Office of Justice Affairs · reading a land Chanote (opens in a new tab)Use this page to read the registered address and house details. Household registration does not establish property ownership.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)รายการเกี่ยวกับบ้าน
รายการเกี่ยวกับบ้าน means details about the house. On this spread it is below the fold, beneath the full printed instructions and penalties panel. The ท.ร. 14 designation is found on the blue book’s cover; the cover is not shown here. The printed 56-30-13 at the top is not this house’s registration ID.
What to check: For ownership, use the title and current registered history. A blue book can relate to a condominium unit as well as a house.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)เลขรหัสประจำบ้าน
This is the house’s registration identifier. It is different from the street or unit address, a person’s national ID, and a title reference. The sample uses the deliberately invalid placeholder 0000-000000-0.
What to check: Keep this code in a separate field from the address when completing forms.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)สำนักทะเบียน
This names the registration office responsible for the house record. Our drawing uses “Sample Registration Office” rather than reproducing an office entry from a private document.
What to check: Direct questions about house-registration entries to the relevant registration office; title-registration questions belong with the Land Office.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)รายการที่อยู่
Read the house number, village number (หมู่ที่), subdistrict (ตำบล), district (อำเภอ) and province (จังหวัด). Here the fictional address begins 888/42, matching the unit number on the synthetic condo title.
What to check: Compare your own documents, and confirm any mapping to a building’s room label. A number written on a cover or sticker may simply be an informal label.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ชื่อบ้าน / ประเภทบ้าน / ลักษณะบ้าน
These fields describe the house or building. A name here may be the development company’s name, especially in a book first prepared for a new development. It is not the resident list. In our example, the company is the developer; the separate resident pages show the people registered at the address.
What to check: Do not treat a developer or company name printed on this house-details page as proof that it still owns the unit. Layouts and filled fields vary.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)วันเดือนปีที่กำหนดบ้านเลขที่
This is the date the house number was assigned: 15 January 2566 (2023) in our fictional example. It is separate from the book’s printing date at the bottom right and is not a sale date.
What to check: A recently printed book does not by itself mean a recent change of ownership. Read the title’s registration history for transfers.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ลงชื่อ / นายทะเบียน
The house-details page has an execution area for the registrar. The sample uses a placeholder in the registrar’s signature position. It is not a field naming the owner or the householder.
What to check: เจ้าบ้าน is a civil-registration role that may be held by an owner, tenant or another entitled occupier. Personal entries appear on other pages. Being named in the book does not by itself establish ownership.
BORA · registration questions and answers (opens in a new tab)วันเดือนปีที่พิมพ์ทะเบียนบ้าน
This date is printed at the bottom right, below the registrar’s execution area. Our example says 20 August 2568 (2025). The house-number assignment date above remains 15 January 2566 (2023).
What to check: A new print date does not establish a new owner or a transfer. Compare dates with their specific labels.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)แทนฉบับที่สูญหาย
The bottom-left stamp in this example says that the book replaces a lost copy. Its fictional application reference is 000/2568, dated 20 August 2568. The reference is not the house number or the title number.
What to check: This stamp concerns replacement of the house book; it does not describe a property sale. Confirm unclear replacement entries with the registration office.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)Look for the Thai title and form number on the cover, then open the book to find its house and resident information.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)สำเนาทะเบียนบ้าน
This reads “Copy of house registration”. It is commonly called a blue book, house book or Tabien Baan. The cover helps identify which document to open.
What to check: The book concerns house and resident registration. Use the title and its registered history when checking property ownership.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ท.ร.14
ท.ร.14 is the form designation on this blue cover. It is separate from the house number and from the house-registration identifier inside.
What to check: Look for this designation with the document heading. Colour alone does not identify a page or explain its contents.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)บ้านเลขที่
Our sample label says 888/42, with an invented building and locality. Handwritten stickers can make a booklet easier to recognise, but they are separate from its printed register entries.
What to check: Confirm the registered address on the house-details page inside. Do not use a cover sticker as a title reference.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)กรมการปกครอง / กระทรวงมหาดไทย
These cover labels name the Department of Provincial Administration and the Ministry of Interior. The title registration handled by the Land Office is a separate record.
What to check: For questions about house or resident entries, contact the local registration office responsible for that house.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)Older house registers can use a large landscape table. This sheet records household members; it is a different page type from the modern house-details spread.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)สำเนาทะเบียนบ้าน / ท.ร.๑๔
The familiar house-registration heading also appears on this older landscape sheet, with ท.ร.๑๔ at the upper right. BORA has described the change from large-sheet registers to booklet formats.
What to check: Match headings and information types. This resident table is not a direct replacement for the modern house-details page shown in the guide.
BORA · older sheet and booklet formats (opens in a new tab)บ้านเลขที่ / หมู่ที่ / ตำบล / อำเภอ
The fictional address begins 888/42, followed by village number 99 and invented localities. Additional address headings run across the next line, above the resident table.
What to check: Read the printed address labels separately from names entered in the member rows below.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)ครอบครัวที่ / บุคคลที่ / ชื่อตัว ชื่อสกุล
The first columns organise household and person entries, followed by given name and surname. Our example leaves these rows empty so you can see the form.
What to check: A member entry is part of civil registration. It does not by itself show who owns the property.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ความเกี่ยวพันกับหัวหน้าครอบครัว / เกิด / สัญชาติ
These headings cover sex, relationship to the head of household, birth date and nationality. Their position differs from the modern house-details spread because they describe people.
What to check: Do not interpret a household relationship as a property ownership share.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)มารดาบิดาผู้ให้กำเนิด
This section has subfields for parents’ names and nationalities. มารดา means mother and บิดา means father. The repeated words are printed prompts, not names in this empty example.
What to check: These family details help identify a resident entry; they are not property details.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)เข้ามาอยู่เมื่อ / ย้ายออกเมื่อ
The right-hand cells contain place and date prompts for moving in and out, alongside registrar fields. Read each person’s row across the table.
What to check: A move date describes a civil-registration event. It is different from a sale or mortgage date on a title.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)สำนักทะเบียน / นายทะเบียน
The reference sheet has an ink seal and signature over the upper-right headings. This example reproduces that placement with an invented signature and a worn impression.
What to check: An older appearance alone does not tell you whether the record is current. Ask the registration office to resolve conflicting entries.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)These pages record people registered at the house. Compare the householder on the upper page with the resident on the lower page; neither label proves property ownership.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)รายการบุคคลในบ้านของเลขรหัสประจำบ้าน
The heading identifies the house-registration record to which this person’s entry belongs. Both pages use the same house code, 0000-000000-0, as our house-details example. This is a house reference, not the person’s ID number.
What to check: Match this code to the house-details page. Do not confuse it with the address or the personal ID below.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)เล่มที่ / ลำดับที่
เล่มที่ at the upper left is the book number. ลำดับที่ at the upper right is the person’s entry order: 1 above and 2 below. The small 2 and 3 on the outer margins are printed page numbers.
What to check: These numbers organise the register; none is a land-title number or an ownership share.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ชื่อ / สัญชาติ / เพศ
This row records the person’s name, nationality and sex. Both invented residents in this illustration are Thai. A blue book can also contain eligible foreigners with permanent residence; the book colour alone is not proof of nationality.
What to check: Read the individual nationality field. Check the registered spelling against the person’s identity documents when it matters for a transaction.
Bangkok registration office · permanent residents in T.R.14 (opens in a new tab)เลขประจำตัวประชาชน
This is the person’s 13-digit identification number, distinct from the house code above. The sample deliberately shows 0-0000-00000-00-0, an invalid placeholder, for both entries.
What to check: Treat real ID numbers and family details as private when sharing a book. A house code and a personal ID identify different things.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)สถานภาพ / เจ้าบ้าน / ผู้อาศัย
สถานภาพ means household status on this form. The upper person is เจ้าบ้าน, the householder responsible for registration matters. The lower person is ผู้อาศัย, a resident. It does not mean married or single here.
What to check: The householder can be an owner, tenant or another person responsible for the household. This role and resident status do not establish ownership of the condo.
BORA · registration questions and answers (opens in a new tab)เกิดเมื่อ
เกิดเมื่อ identifies the date of birth. Our examples use 1 January 2533 (1990) and 2 February 2535 (1992). This is not the date the person moved into the house.
What to check: Thai Buddhist Era years commonly appear here. Read the label before comparing this date with a registration or printing date elsewhere.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)มารดาผู้ให้กำเนิด / บิดาผู้ให้กำเนิด
The next rows identify the birth mother and birth father, with their nationalities. The names in this illustration are invented examples.
What to check: These are family details about the registered person; they do not show who owns or occupies the property.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)* มาจาก
This area records the previous registration location and related move-in entry. Our invented entries both name an example register and show 1 March 2567 (2024). It is separate from the birth date.
What to check: Read the full movement entry, including any date or office note. The printed label on this modern form is มาจาก; older forms can use a different arrangement.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)** ไปที่
This lower band is for the destination and related move-out entry. It is blank on both synthetic pages because we have not illustrated a later move.
What to check: A blank band on one photographed page does not establish the current registration position. Ask for relevant later entries or an updated record when needed.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)นายทะเบียน
The registrar’s area accompanies the registration or movement entry. These examples use invented blue initials beside the move-in records; the move-out registrar spaces are empty.
What to check: A registration signature records the relevant administrative act. It is not a signature transferring property ownership.
BORA · computerized registration rules, clauses 6, 12 and 14 (opens in a new tab)The yellow T.R.13 book records eligible non-Thai residents at a Thai address. It is a house-registration document; it does not grant ownership or immigration permission.
Open this sample image (opens in a new tab)สำเนาทะเบียนบ้าน
The title means “Copy of house registration”, just as on the blue book. The yellow cover is associated with the T.R.13 register for eligible non-Thai residents.
What to check: Use it to understand the address-registration record. It does not establish the right to own a condo or the land underneath it.
BORA · house-registration guide (opens in a new tab)ท.ร.13
This form designation distinguishes the yellow register from blue T.R.14. It is the registration route relevant to many foreign residents staying under temporary immigration permission. Eligible foreigners with permanent residence can instead be registered in T.R.14.
What to check: Ask the local registration office which procedure applies to your status. Being foreign does not automatically mean every applicant must use a yellow book.
Bangkok registration office · T.R.13 registration for foreign passport holders (opens in a new tab)กรมการปกครอง / กระทรวงมหาดไทย
The cover names the Department of Provincial Administration and Ministry of Interior. Apply through the registration office for the address where you live and ask for its current documents and witness requirements.
What to check: Its practical value depends on whether the organisation handling your paperwork accepts this address evidence. If you have no specific use for it, obtaining one may make little practical difference.
Bangkok registration office · T.R.13 registration for foreign passport holders (opens in a new tab)Recognise the book, then the page
Tabien baan, house book and blue book are names you may hear for the house-registration book. The modern booklet has a house-details spread and separate resident pages. The older sheet shown here combines an address header with a household-member table. Start by matching the page in your hands.
สำเนาทะเบียนบ้าน
Look for the Thai title and the ท.ร. 14 form designation. The cover identifies the book, rather than the owner of the home.
รายการเกี่ยวกับบ้าน
The house ID, registered address, building details and printing date appear below the printed information panel.
รายการบุคคลในบ้าน
Each resident has a separate entry, with a personal ID, household role, birth and family details, and movement records.
สำเนาทะเบียนบ้าน
A wide table with the address across the top and columns for people, family relationships, birth details and movements.
These are different page types as well as different layouts. Compare the modern resident pages with the older member table when reading information about people. Use the separate modern house-details spread for the house ID and address. A different layout or an older print date alone does not establish whether a book is valid. Neither format is a property title.
BORA’s historical guidance describes the change from large-sheet house registers to booklets. Read the format history House-registration rules
Another house-registration book
The yellow book, ท.ร. 13, provides a house-registration route for eligible foreign residents with temporary immigration permission. Bangkok registration guidance
The blue book, ท.ร. 14, records Thai nationals and eligible foreigners with permanent residence. House-registration guide Blue-book eligibility
Both record a household and address. Neither book proves property ownership or grants immigration permission.
Its value is mainly as an address-registration document. It may save paperwork when the organisation you deal with accepts it; if you have no specific use for it, it may make little practical difference. Check what your bank, licensing office or other recipient actually requires before applying solely for that transaction.
Contact the local registration office responsible for your actual address. Ask for its current document and witness requirements for your circumstances before preparing an application.
Read across the documents
The room label used by a building or agent may differ from the registered address. Match each number to its Thai field name.
ห้องชุดเลขที่ · รายการที่อยู่
The title and house book match in our fictional example. Compare the actual entries for your unit.
An example of a room label used in marketing. Ask the juristic office which registered unit it identifies.
เลขรหัสประจำบ้าน
A separate reference from the address. This example deliberately uses an invalid placeholder.
ตำแหน่งที่ดิน
The condominium certificate refers to its underlying land. This reference is not the room number.
Keep this beside you
Older Chanotes often use Thai numerals extensively, including unit or deed numbers, areas and dates. Some entries and printed serials may still use 0–9. If you cannot read Thai, start with the matching field label and use the digit key below.
For modern Buddhist Era years, subtract 543: พ.ศ. 2568 = 2025.
A date may mean the issue date, a registration date or the date the book was printed. Read its label before comparing dates.
For modern dates: 2484–2799 B.E. (1941–2256 CE).
A few useful distinctions
The householder, เจ้าบ้าน, has a household-registration role. A person listed as ผู้อาศัย is a resident. These entries do not by themselves establish property ownership. An empty resident page also does not decide who owns the property; check the title and current registered history.
สถานภาพ on the resident page describes that household role, rather than marital status.
The front records the original grantee. Later transactions appear in the register on the reverse and on continuation sheets. Read the transaction type and the parties together: a mortgage entry, for example, is different from a sale.
Ask for every page, including continuation sheets, and check the current registered position with the Land Office.
Condominium Act: certificate contentsThe printed Garuda at the top belongs to the title form. A circular ink seal beside an official’s signature accompanies issuance or a registration entry. Impressions can be faint, partial or overlapping; read the nearby date and wording.
In a blue book, แทนฉบับที่สูญหาย means a replacement for a lost copy; แทนฉบับที่ชำรุด means a replacement for a damaged copy. These notes concern the book, rather than a property sale.
Land area is written in separate units. 1 rai = 4 ngan = 400 square wah = 1,600 m². 1 ngan = 100 square wah = 400 m²; 1 square wah = 4 m².
Our land example 0–1–20 means 0 rai + 1 ngan + 20 square wah, or 480 m². It is not a decimal number. A parcel plan helps identify the land; on-site boundaries and legal access need separate verification.
A separate land sale contract (หนังสือสัญญาขายที่ดิน) records a sale agreement; the title has its ongoing registration history. For a condo transfer, a juristic-person debt certificate addresses common-expense debts and does not replace a registered-mortgage check.
Match the registered names with the seller’s identity and, where someone signs for an owner, their authority for that transaction.
Read our property buying guideWhen a document is missing
House books: contact the local registration office for the address. Title deeds: contact the Land Office responsible for the property. The replacement procedure depends on which document is missing and what happened to it.
Contact the civil registration office responsible for the home’s registered address and ask for a replacement householder’s copy, สำเนาทะเบียนบ้านฉบับเจ้าบ้าน. The householder (เจ้าบ้าน) or someone authorised by them can make the request.
Have the registered address or house code, identification and any authorisation paperwork available. If you are the owner but are not the registered householder, explain that when contacting the office so it can confirm who should apply and what evidence to bring.
For an ordinary lost house book, a police report is not normally required; report the loss to the registrar. Official guidance on police reports
The same office handles a blue book that is too damaged to use. Keep the damaged book and bring it with you.
Civil Registration Act: lost or damaged house books · BORA: requesting a replacement
Start by asking the seller—or the developer for a new unit—for the book and a copy of its house-details page. Ask the building’s juristic office to help confirm the registered address and trace the handover.
If the book cannot be located, contact the local registration office. For that enquiry, have your registered condominium title, transfer paperwork and ID or passport available. Ask whether a house book has already been issued and who can request a replacement. If one has never been issued, ask about first issuance. Describe a book retained by the seller as a handover problem, rather than a lost book.
Receiving the physical book and having your own name registered in it are different matters. A foreign condo owner is not automatically eligible to be listed in the blue book. See who can use a blue or yellow book.
First check whether your bank, seller, co-owner or representative has the original. If someone holds it, explain that situation to the Land Office instead of reporting it as lost.
For a lost condominium title or land Chanote, the owner or an authorised representative applies for an official replacement, ใบแทน (bai thaen), at the Land Office responsible for the property. Bring identification and any title copy or property references you have. Confirm the supporting documents and witnesses required; the ordinary witness procedure calls for at least two credible people to give statements. If it was stolen or lost through another criminal act, include police-report evidence.
Lost-title applications normally include a 30-day public notice period after the office’s checks. Preparing the notice, handling any objections and issuing the replacement take additional time. Ask for the expected collection date, especially if you are planning a sale.
Official procedures: Condominium title · Land Chanote
Keep the damaged original and take it to the Land Office. If its essential details and official certification can still be verified, replacement may proceed without the public notice required for a lost title. If important details are missing, the office can require the lost-title procedure.
Official procedures: Damaged condominium title · Damaged land Chanote
The illustrations follow real document layouts with invented entries. This guide explains how to read the fields; it does not authenticate a document or replace a current title search. Official references checked in September 2026.