Buying property in Vietnam
Articles about buying and owning property in Vietnam as a foreign buyer.
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Ho Chi Minh City Names 4,125 Tax Debtors Owing $452 Million, Led by Property Developers
Alphanam Group: The Entity Structure, Filings and Delivery Record Behind the Brand
Vietnam Clears Its Housing and Real Estate Bills for the Assembly Session Opening October 17
Bitexco Group's Delivery Record: Completed Towers, Transferred Projects and the Checks That Matter
Vietnam Moves to Bar Foreign Buyers From Villas and Townhouses Entirely
Vietnam Opens Public Consultation on Rewritten Land, Housing and Real Estate Laws
BRG Group and the North Hanoi Smart City: Announced in 2019, Still on Phase One
Vietnam Breaks Ground on the First Infrastructure Project Inside Its Da Nang Free Trade Zone
Vietnam Passes the Urban Development Law: What Changes for HCMC and Foreign Buyers
What Happens If Your Vietnamese Developer Doesn't Deliver the Pink Book
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? The Legal Answer and the Foreign Quota Explained
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? No, and Here Is What You Can Own Instead
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam? The 2026 Legal Reality
Vietnam Real Estate FAQ for Foreign Buyers: 25 Questions Answered
A 2026 FAQ answering the most common questions foreign buyers ask about property in Vietnam, including the 50-year leasehold, the 30% foreign ownership cap, VAT and transfer taxes, the Pink Book, and resale rules.
What Happens When Your 50-Year Leasehold Expires in Vietnam
What foreign owners face when the 50-year ownership term on a Vietnamese Pink Book expires, including extension rules under the Housing Law 2023, resale options, and how to plan an exit.
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? The Legal Reality
What Happens If Your Vietnamese Developer Doesn't Deliver the Pink Book
The legal status of a paid buyer without a pink book, the demand letter, complaint, civil and criminal routes, contractual penalties, and the patterns seen in real cases.
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? The 2024 Land Law Reality
Vietnam's New Rehabilitation and Bankruptcy Law (March 2026): What Foreign Apartment Buyers Need to Understand
Hai Phong Is the Quiet Story of 2026: What Foreign Buyers Should Know Before Following the Money North
The 2% Maintenance Fund: Vietnam's Quiet Money Trap for Foreign Apartment Buyers
What Happens When Your 50-Year Leasehold Expires in Vietnam
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? The Direct Answer
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – May 22, 2026
Vietnam's 2024 Land Law: What Foreigners Can and Cannot Own in 2026
Power of Attorney and Declaration of Trust Won't Save You in Vietnam: The 2025 UBO Crackdown
The 5 Percent Deposit Cap: What Foreigners Buying Off-Plan in Vietnam Actually Get Under the 2026 Rules
Hanoi's 404 Stalled Projects and the March 1, 2026 Cleanup Deadline: What It Means for Foreign Buyers
Da Nang Beachfront Condo Prices Per Square Meter in 2025 and 2026: What Foreign Buyers Are Actually Paying
HD Mon Holdings: Profiling the Hanoi Developer Behind Mon City and The Zei for Foreign Buyers
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – May 15, 2026
Handover Day in Vietnam: The Defect Checklist That Saves Foreign Buyers from Losing Leverage
The day you get handed keys to your apartment in Vietnam is the day you have the most use you will ever have over the developer. After you sign the handover...
Can Foreigners Get a Mortgage in Vietnam? The Real Numbers for 2026
A reader emailed last week asking why no Vietnamese bank would lend him money to buy a $280,000 apartment in District 2, even though he had a work permit, a...
HCMC Has 1,200 Stalled Projects to Clean Up. What That Means If You Are a Foreign Buyer.
Vietnam has a stalled-project problem, and Ho Chi Minh City has been told to fix part of it on a deadline. The central government instructed HCMC to fully re...
Can Foreigners Own Land in Vietnam in 2026? The Legal Answer Most Guides Get Half Right
Search results for "can foreigners own land in Vietnam" are crowded with articles that quietly swap the word "land" for "property" halfway through. That swap...
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – May 1, 2026
Da Nang's residential market closed April with two events that will shape the year. On April 23, CBRE Vietnam used its quarterly briefing to confirm what the...
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – April 24, 2026
This week in Da Nang, residential supply continued to expand against a backdrop of cautious buyer behavior. Q1 2026 data from Avison Young shows primary apartm
Zoning Check Before You Sign: How Quy Hoach Catches Out Foreign Property Buyers in Vietnam
A foreign buyer in Da Nang signed a deposit contract last year on what the agent described as a beachfront villa plot in a master-planned resort near My Khe. U
Vietnam Rental Income Tax for Foreign Landlords: What You Actually Owe in 2026
Most foreign owners who rent out their Vietnamese apartment never declare the income. They hand the tenant a bank account, collect rent in VND (Vietnamese dong
What Happens to Your Vietnam Apartment When You Die: A Foreign Owner's Inheritance Guide
When a foreign buyer signs a Pink Book (So hong, the ownership certificate issued by the People's Committee or Uy ban nhan dan) on a condo in Ho Chi Minh City o
The 30% Quota Gotcha: How Foreigners Keep Losing Deposits on HCMC Apartments in 2026
A French couple called me in March. They had wired $48,000 as a 20% deposit on a two-bedroom unit in a new District 2 tower, signed the SPA, and started planni
The Da Nang Condotel Trap Is Still Catching Foreigners in 2026
I got another one last Tuesday. American guy, Seattle, bought a "beachfront condotel" outside Da Nang in 2018 for $185,000.
Hanoi's 30% Price Surge and the Foreign Buyer Who Walks In at the Top
Early 2026 market data out of Hanoi is the kind of number that sets off inbox alarms for overseas investors. Primary apartment prices hit about USD 3,950 per s
What Actually Happens in Year 50: The Vietnamese Leasehold Expiry Rules Foreign Buyers Rarely Read
Every foreigner buying an apartment in Vietnam hears the same sentence from the sales agent. "It is a 50-year ownership, renewable.
Getting Your Money Out of Vietnam: The Capital Repatriation Trap Nobody Explains Before You Wire In
Most foreign buyers in Vietnam spend months worrying about whether they can legally buy. Almost none of them think about whether they can legally get the money
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – April 17, 2026
Da Nang's residential property market closed the first quarter of 2026 in a state of cautious consolidation rather than runaway growth, with primary condomin...
The Condotel Trap: Why That Phu Quoc Beach Unit Might Never Get a Pink Book
Someone put a glossy brochure in front of you. A resort-style unit on Phu Quoc's Long Beach, or maybe a beachfront tower in Da Nang.
Developer Bond Defaults in Vietnam: What the Hung Thinh and Novaland Sagas Mean for You
Most foreign buyers researching Vietnam property spend their time worrying about the obvious risks: the 50-year leasehold, the 30% quota, nominee ownership s...
Vietnam's 30% Foreign Quota: What Happens When You're Buyer #31
You've done your research. You've visited the project, liked what you saw, done the math on rental yields, and you're ready to wire money.
Vietnam's Condotel Reckoning: Pink Book Limbo and What Buyers Can Do Now
If you bought a condotel in Vietnam between 2016 and 2020, you were probably sold a story about 8% to 12% guaranteed annual returns, a Pink Book delivery tim...
Nominee Ownership in Vietnam: Why It Will Cost You Everything
At some point during the first few years I spent advising foreign buyers in Vietnam, I stopped being surprised by nominee ownership arrangements. I started ...
The 30% Quota Trap: What Foreign Buyers in HCMC and Da Nang Are Walking Into
Every week someone emails me with a variation of the same story. They found a great unit in a high-rise in District 2 or an ocean-view apartment in Da Nang'...
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing – April 13, 2026
Da Nang has quietly become one of Southeast Asia's most legit markets for foreign real estate investors, and this week's developments only strengthen that case.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-04-12
Da Nang's property market starts the second quarter of 2026 in a careful consolidation mode. Prices in central districts are holding firm despite a noticeable
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-04-06
The Da Nang property market is in a cautious but structurally healthy place right now. Prices continue to hold firm across the city's prime districts, but tr...
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - April 3, 2026
Da Nang is having a strong start to 2026. Real estate revenue jumped 36.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - April 2, 2026
The mood right now is cautiously optimistic. Da Nang's market has come out of a two-year slowdown with real momentum: transactions roughly doubled in 2025, a...
The Da Nang Condotel Trap: What Every Foreign Investor Gets Wrong in 2026
Every week I get messages from foreigners who found a "great deal" on a beachfront unit in Da Nang. Stunning ocean views.
The Mr Pips Case: How Vietnamese Real Estate Becomes a Money Laundering Machine - And Why Foreign Buyers Should Care
In March 2026, Hanoi police charged 83 people in what's being called one of the largest fraud cases in Vietnamese history. At the center of it: a TikTok pers...
Vietnam's Developer Bond Crisis: Why Q1 2026 Should Make Every Foreign Buyer Nervous
If you're shopping for a condo in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi right now, there's something you need to understand before you wire a single dollar: a massive wa...
The 5 Most Common Vietnam Property Scams Targeting Foreign Buyers
I've seen foreign investors lose $50,000, $150,000, even $300,000 in Vietnam real estate scams. Not because they were stupid.
Da Nang vs. Ho Chi Minh City vs. Hanoi: Where Should Foreign Investors Buy?
I get this question constantly: "Where should I invest? Da Nang, HCMC, or Hanoi?
What Happens When a Vietnam Developer Disappears With Your Deposit?
You've found the perfect apartment in a new high-rise in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. The unit is 120 square meters, priced at $300,000, and the sales agent...
Can Foreigners Actually Own Property in Vietnam? The Real Rules in 2026
The short answer: yes, but with constraints that don't exist in your home country. And the long answer is where most foreign investors go wrong.
Is This Vietnam Developer Legit? How to Check Before Wiring Money
A woman from Berlin sat in my office last year with a glossy brochure for a "luxury mixed-use development" in Binh Duong Province. The showroom in District 1...
What Is a Pink Book and How Do You Know Yours Isn't Fake?
Last month, I watched a client from Melbourne nearly close on a $400,000 apartment in District 1. Two weeks before the handover, her lawyer flagged something...
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing, April 1, 2026
Da Nang's property market is riding a confident wave into Q2 2026. Real estate revenue in the city jumped 36.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-03-31
Da Nang is riding a genuine wave right now - not the speculative froth of years past, but something that feels more durable. Revenue from real estate services jumped 36.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-03-30
Da Nang's property market is running hot right now. Revenue from real estate services jumped nearly 37% in the first two months of 2026 compared to the same period last year, apartment sales are up more than tenfold, and the city is leading all of Vietnam in real estate search interest growth.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-03-27
Da Nang's property market is on a roll right now - real estate revenue surged nearly 37% in just the first two months of 2026 compared to last year, apartments are moving at ten times the pace they were this time in 2025, and major developers are actively breaking ground on some of the biggest projects the city has ever seen. The mood among both local analysts and out-of-town investors is cautiously bullish: the fundamentals are genuinely strong, and the city's growth story has shifted from speculative to structural.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-03-26
The mood in Da Nang's property market right now is cautiously confident - and for good reason. Real estate revenue jumped 36.
Da Nang Real Estate Briefing - 2026-03-26
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