Hej
Enligt denna artikel kan utlänningar omöjligtvis äga 100 miljoner rai i Thailand eftersom landet består av 320 miljoner rai och av dessa är 120 miljoner rai i privat ägo, 55 miljoner rai i landets outvecklade delar, 30 miljoner rai som tillhör staten och 115 miljoner är öronmärkt skogsmark.
Det är enligt artikeln så att 90% av alla markägare äger 1 rai eller mindre och 10% av markägarna äger resten och där är 70% av marken köpt i spekulationssyfte som en investering och ligger i träda, att det är väldigt få som äger extremt mycket mark som dessutom inte används är ett stort problem man borde fokusera på, denna mark skulle kunna brukas av marklösa och ge både sysselsättning och inkomster till landet.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/284569/stop-this-land-xenophobia
Stop this land xenophobia
It is certainly right to be concerned about how it is getting increasingly difficult for Thais to own a piece of land. But it is completely wrong to blame foreigners for Thailand's inequitable land ownership problem and land grabbing.

Ombudsman Siracha Charoenpanij made headlines on Tuesday when he claimed that a third of land in Thailand, or about 100 million rai, is now in foreigners' hands due to proxy ownership made possible by legal loopholes and corruption.
The figures, he said, come from a National Institute of Development Administration study which specifies that wealthy foreigners are using marriages to Thai women or nominees to buy prized properties, particularly in well-known beach resort towns.
This is a classic case of xenophobia based on false statistics. Let's do some simple maths.
Thailand covers about about 514,000 square kilometres, or 320 million rai. Of this, 120 million rai is private land, 55 million settlement land, 30 million government land and 115 million rai earmarked as forest land.
Where on earth can the 100 million rai owned by foreigners come from? Private land? How much can rich foreigners buy when most private land is already owned by a handful of big landlords.
Of course, there is 55 million rai of settlement land that can be snapped up. But most is in rural areas with little infrastructure support. Is this the kind of land foreigners are looking for? If the 100 million rai under foreign ownership figure is correct, is the study suggesting their properties are in forests or on government land?
If the Ombudsman had focused on the problem of nominee land ownership in resort towns only, his concerns would have been legitimate because the crux of the problem is corruption. But the Ombudsman's cautionary words ended up carrying no weight as he pointed fingers in the wrong direction about land grabbing, complete with unbelievable statistics.
If the Office of the Ombudsman really wants to solve the problem of landlessness, it should pay attention to another set of statistics.
Start with the fact that 90% of land owners have one rai or less while the remaining 10% of private land is owned by landlords. Seventy percent of this land is speculative, lying idle and unproductive when 4.8 million farmers are struggling with landlessness and not having enough land to till.