About the company
View Talay (Thai for “sea view”) is the name behind a series of condominiums in south Pattaya built over more than a decade, from View Talay 1, completed in 1997, to View Talay 7 in 2010. Public listings name the same developer, View Talay Pattaya Beach Condominium, for six buildings in the series: View Talay 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8. The company has no website, publishes no accounts and is not listed, and its history is not documented anywhere public, so the buildings themselves are the best guide to the developer.
The name also appears on other properties: the low-rise View Talay Residence 1 and 2 on Jomtien Second Road (early 2000s; listings give the developer as View Talay Marina Beach Condominium Co., Ltd.) and the View Talay 6 tower in central Pattaya (2007). Whether these companies share owners cannot be established from public data.
What their projects are like
View Talay mostly means large high-rises from the 1990s and 2000s, from the two 15-storey blocks of View Talay 1 to the 30-storey View Talay 8. Units range from studios to two bedrooms, and the standard facilities are a communal pool, a gym and 24-hour security; some buildings also have a café, a mini-mart and a laundry on site. View Talay 5 has its own key-card gate straight onto Dongtan Beach.
Almost all the buildings sit in the small area between Pratumnak and Jomtien: along Thappraya Road, at the northern end of Jomtien Beach (Dongtan) and on Jomtien Beach Road. Depending on the building, the sea is anything from a couple of hundred metres to about a kilometre away.
Projects in Thailand
- View Talay 1 (1997) — two 15-storey blocks on Thappraya Road, about a kilometre from Jomtien Beach.
- View Talay 2 (2002) — two buildings, A and B, also on Thappraya Road.
- View Talay 3 (2006) — two 20-storey blocks on Pratumnak, on Soi Pratumnak 6.
- View Talay 5 (2007) — two 22-storey blocks on Thappraya Road by Dongtan Beach.
- View Talay 8 (2008) — a 30-storey tower on Jomtien Beach Road.
- View Talay 7 (2010) — a 27-storey tower about 200 m from Jomtien Beach.
What buyers should check
Every building in the series is a resale purchase, and age is the main factor. View Talay 1 is nearly 30 years old, and even the newest, View Talay 7, is more than fifteen. Before choosing a unit, ask the juristic person for the sinking-fund balance, the maintenance plan for lifts, roofs, façades and pools, and the minutes of recent general meetings, which show whether owners are in arrears and how major spending gets approved. Compare the monthly common-area fee too; it differs noticeably from one building to the next.
In the larger blocks many similar studios are on the market at once, so floor, view and condition set the price, both when you buy and when you later sell. Not every unit has the sea view the name promises, so check it in person. Ask how much foreign quota remains: once 49% of the floor area is in foreign names, a foreigner can only buy freehold a unit already registered to a foreign owner. Finally, unit counts for these buildings vary widely between public sources, so confirm the details of a particular block against the title documents and the building management’s records.
