Research
Grounded, city-by-city guides to where the opportunity is real and where it depends on factors outside a buyer’s control.
A head-to-head on Phnom Penh’s two leading residential districts — BKK1’s premium expat core versus Toul Kork’s quieter family upmarket. Price, yield, tenant pool, resale, and which buyer each one actually suits.
Read researchBKK1, Daun Penh, Toul Kork, Chroy Changvar, and the Russian Market area each attract a different buyer and carry a different risk profile. A district-by-district orientation for investors.
Read researchThe practical path most foreigners take to live in Cambodia: arrive on a tourist visa, convert to an ordinary (E-class) visa, then extend it long-term. Here is the sequence, the documents, the costs you should expect, and the overstay risks to avoid.
Read researchABA, ACLEDA, Canadia and the rest — Cambodia’s banks differ more than their marketing suggests. A grounded comparison of the major banks on what actually matters to a foreign buyer: account access, digital quality, lending, and safety.
Read researchCambodia’s best-preserved colonial town and its rice-bowl capital is a place to live, not a place to flip. Why Battambang charms residents and frustrates investors — the arts-town appeal, the agricultural economy, and the thinnest foreign-buyer market of any city covered here.
Read researchKep is tiny, slow, and gorgeous — a former French seaside resort of crab shacks, hillside villas, and modernist ruins. A granular look at its micro-markets and why it is even thinner and more illiquid than neighbouring Kampot.
Read researchBeneath Kampot’s easy charm sit several distinct little property markets — the old town, the riverfront, the road to the sea, Bokor, and the farmland around them — each with its own buyers, risks, and realities. A granular guide for anyone looking past the postcard.
Read researchCambodia’s gentle southern coast is a lifestyle and hospitality market, not a capital-growth play. Who Kampot and Kep genuinely suit — and the thin-market risks that come with the charm.
Read researchThe boom-and-bust coastal city is the highest-variance market in Cambodia. A grounded look at who it suits and who it does not.
Read researchA single-industry town rebuilding its visitor economy. Where the property opportunity is real and where it depends entirely on tourism returning.
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