Every mark on a listing, and what it means
One screen: the crest, the zone chip and the glyphs that sit on every plot in this district. Nothing here is decoration — each mark stands for a document, a rule or a measurement, and each one says where it came from.
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The title crest
The crest answers the first question: what document stands behind this land, and has anybody checked it? Gold is a Chanote. The tick inside the seal is the only mark on this site that means we did the six checks ourselves, on a printed date.
- Chanote, checkedA full title deed (Chanote, น.ส.4 จ.), the strongest land document in Thailand — and we have pulled it at the Land Office and walked the boundary ourselves, on a date printed on the listing.
- Chanote, as statedThe advert says Chanote, the strongest land document in Thailand. Nobody has pulled the deed yet. We do that before any viewing.
- Nor Sor 3 GorA confirmed certificate of use with a surveyed boundary. It can be sold, mortgaged and upgraded to a Chanote, and it is registered at the Land Office.
- Nor Sor 3A certificate of use whose boundary was never properly surveyed. It can be transferred, but the edges are an estimate: a boundary walk with the neighbours present is required.
- Title not statedThe advert names no document at all. That is the most common case in this district — a question to ask, not a defect to assume.
The zone chip
Chiang Dao runs on the Chiang Mai provincial plan, not the city plan. The swatch is painted in the plan's own colours, so it matches what you see on the official land-use viewer.
- CommunityPink. The built-up cores of Chiang Dao town and Mueang Ngai. A normal residential or commercial build.
- Rural and agriculturalSolid green. Farming, a house, schools, temples and utilities. No land subdivision, and no large residential building.
- Conservation rural and agriculturalWhite under a green hatch. As the green zone, plus conservation work itself — and hotels, subdivision and golf courses are barred.
- Forest conservationLight green under a white hatch. The strictest zone, and by area most of this district. Even on privately held land inside it, use narrows to farming or a single detached house that is not a subdivision: no resort, no hotel, no rental villa.
The house glyph beside the swatch says whether a house is permitted on privately held land. All four zones here allow one; three of them allow only one, not subdivided. The glyph is struck through only where an overlay we have actually read — a wildlife sanctuary or a national reserved forest — bars building whatever the zone colour says.
A chip printed in lighter type and labelled “tambon reading” is not a reading of that parcel. It is what the official viewer showed at two or three points inside that tambon on 21 September 2026. We check a plot by its own deed number before any viewing.
The glyphs
Eight glyphs, always in the same order, with the value under each one.
- Route 107: 1.2 km
- Chiang Dao town: 3.4 km
- The Ping: 800 m
- Hot spring: 6.1 km
- Doi Luang: 9.7 km
- Power: Stated
- Mains water: Stated
- Chiang Mai: 72 km
- Solid — stated in the listing
- The advert's own words say so: ติดถนน, วิวดอย, ไฟฟ้า, น้ำประปา and the rest. We have not stood on the plot.
- Dimmed — not stated
- The advert is silent. It does not mean the plot lacks the thing; it means nobody has told us, and we will ask.
- A plain distance
- A straight line from the listing's own map pin to the place named, measured against OpenStreetMap. Not driving time.
- ≈ approximate, by tambon
- The advert carries no map pin, so the distance is measured from the village at the centre of its tambon instead. Good to a few kilometres, no better.
Size, price and the band
- Size is written the Thai way, rai-ngan-wa, with the square metres beside it. 1 rai = 4 ngan = 400 square wah = 1,600 m².
- The small square is the plot drawn to scale beside a full-size football pitch, 7,140 m². It is a square because an advert states an area, not a shape.
- The price is in baht. The currency switch converts it at the European Central Bank's daily reference rate and prints that rate's own date — land here is priced in baht, and a conversion is a convenience, not a price.
- The bar shows where the price per rai sits inside the indicative district band from our own scan of Chiang Dao listings. Asking prices, not closing prices.
Nothing on this page is a promise about a specific parcel — every listing says, in its own first line, how much of it anybody has checked. Browse the listings