With the continued development and proliferation of new hotels and condominiums in the face of may unused or underused older pre‐existing office and apartment buildings in places like Bangkok and Phuket, some have wondered if it would not be an environmentally wise as well as an economically prudent move for a prospective hotel or condominium developer to consider refurbishing such a pre‐existing structure for their purposes. At the same time it seems there is common misconception that such a conversion of a building is not possible under Thai law.
