Deal reviews
Short, anonymised write-ups of deals we've looked at — what the marketing said, what we found, and the call we'd have made. The point isn't the verdict; it's the checks that got us there.
Every review is de-identified — no specific buyer, developer, or unit is identifiable. See our editorial standards for how we work.
A buyer was days from paying in full for a BKK1 unit whose strata title existed only on a marketing sheet. We mapped what was really being sold — and why we’d have walked.
A coastal pre-sale dangled a guaranteed rental yield. We treated the guarantee as worthless and restructured the deal around what was actually defensible — at a lower price.
A buyer wanted a landed borey on the Phnom Penh fringe via a land-holding company. The structure was workable, but the cheap version on offer wasn’t. Here’s what we’d fix before proceeding.
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