Risk & Due Diligence
The checks that protect capital — title, developer, structure, and exit — before you commit to a Cambodian purchase.
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Cambodia's Riverbank Planning Shift: What Devolved Waterfront Rules Mean for Buyers
Cambodia is pushing riverbank planning and land demarcation down to provincial committees and inviting waterfront owners into erosion-prevention schemes. For riverside property, local autonomy is both an opportunity and a new layer of risk — a due-diligence read.
Condo Handover in Cambodia: The Snagging Checklist and the Warranties the Law Gives You
Cambodia's Construction Law hands every buyer statutory defect warranties — 2 years on systems, 5 on the envelope, 10 on structure — that no contract can shorten. The handover guide: when to inspect, what to test, what to withhold, and the paperwork to demand before you sign.
Political and Expropriation Risk in Cambodian Property: What a Title Can — and Cannot — Protect
Cambodia's written law promises fair-market compensation paid in advance before any taking. Boeung Kak, two million hectares of concessions, and a lake whose legal boundary moved 55 times say the written law is not the whole story. How to read the risk and position around it.
When a Cambodian Property Deal Goes Wrong: Courts, Arbitration, and Real Leverage
Cambodia has no commercial court in operation, won't enforce your home country's judgments, and routes unregistered-land fights through an administrative maze — yet arbitration awards travel to 160+ countries. The honest recourse map, and why leverage beats litigation.
Buying a Resale Condo in Cambodia: The Second-Owner Checklist
Resale removes completion risk — and adds a different inspection list: the building’s real occupancy, the foreign quota’s current position, service-charge arrears, the sinking fund, and a title that must be re-verified, not inherited.
Guaranteed Rental Returns in Cambodia: What the Guarantee Is Actually Worth
The “8–12% guaranteed for five years” pitch is everywhere in Cambodian off-plan sales. Here is what underwrites that promise, how it is priced into your purchase, and the questions that make it collapse or hold up.
How to Verify a Cambodian Land Title in 2026: QR Checks, Cadastral Searches, and What Each Proves
Title verification in Cambodia has never been easier — or more necessary. The verify.gov.kh QR check, the cadastral burdens search, what each one proves and doesn’t, and the verification sequence to run before any money moves.
How to Read a Cambodian Sale-and-Purchase Agreement Before You Sign
The SPA is where Cambodian property deals are actually won or lost — payment schedules, deposits, penalty clauses, handover triggers, and the escrow question. A clause-by-clause guide for foreign buyers.
The First-Time Buyer’s Guide to Cambodian Property
A practical, risk-first roadmap for foreigners buying property in Cambodia for the first time — what you can own, how to choose a market, get the structure right, fund it, run the diligence, and plan the exit. The honest version, with links to the detail at each step.
Cambodia Property Red Flags: The Warning-Sign Checklist
The specific warning signs that should make you slow down, dig deeper, or walk away from a Cambodian property deal — across title, the seller, the structure, the money, and the sales pressure itself.
Off-plan vs Resale: Which Buying Route Is Right for You in Cambodia?
Two ways into Cambodian property: buy off-plan from a developer before it’s built, or buy a completed unit on the resale market. One trades price and choice for completion risk; the other trades certainty for a higher price. A head-to-head to match the route to the buyer.
Property Management in Cambodia: A Guide for Absentee Foreign Owners
Buying is half the job; managing the property — usually from abroad — is the other half. What property management covers, what it costs, how to choose a manager, and the absentee-owner risks that quietly erode a Cambodian property return.
Selling Cambodian Property: An Exit Guide for Foreign Owners
The exit is the hardest part of a Cambodian purchase and the least planned. Who you can actually sell to, how your holding structure and the building’s foreign quota shape liquidity, the costs and tax on a sale, and why you should plan the exit before you buy.
The Best Property Developers in Cambodia? How to Actually Judge One
There is no honest, fixed “best developers in Cambodia” list — reputations move and most rankings are paid placement. Here is the independent way to judge a developer: the track-record checks, the green flags, the red flags, and where to start.
Is Cambodia a Tax Haven? A Sober Answer
Being outside the CRS is not the same as being a tax haven. Cambodia levies real taxes, the biggest non-CRS country in the world is the United States, and none of it removes your duty to declare. A myth-busting look at a common misconception.
How to Vet a Cambodian Property Developer Before You Buy Off-Plan
Off-plan in Cambodia means trusting a developer to deliver years from now. Track record, permits, the land title under the project, and escrow are the checks that separate a safe purchase from a lost deposit.
FATF, AML, and CRS: Making Sense of Cambodia’s Financial-Regulatory Landscape
Cambodia left the FATF grey list in 2023 but remains outside the CRS. These are different frameworks measuring different things. What each one means for a foreign property buyer, and where the real risks sit.
Property Insurance in Cambodia: What's Insurable, What the Law Expects, and What to Buy
Nothing forces a Cambodian homeowner to insure — but the Construction Law makes owners jointly liable for occupancy defects, floods are a named peril, and premiums below $50M follow a tariff. What the young insurance market actually sells, and how a foreign owner should buy it.
Flood and Climate Risk in Cambodian Property Due Diligence: The Check Nobody Runs
Phnom Penh carries a "High" flood classification — damaging floods expected within any ten-year hold — while the lakes that drained the city are filled for the towers sold on them. How to read elevation, infill history, and drainage before the wet season does it for you.
The Pre-Purchase Due Diligence Checklist for Cambodia
The specific checks that separate a defensible Cambodian property purchase from an expensive lesson — title verification at the cadastral office, the 70% foreign quota, developer licences, and exit costs. Sourced and cited.
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