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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing real estate or legal rights pertaining to real estate here in Thailand, and the Yellow House Book or Yellow Tabian Baan. 

For those who are unaware, Thailand utilizes sort of an ongoing continuous census system through use of what is called House Registration books, the House Registration book system. I've done a number of videos over the years on that. There are Blue Books for Thais and lawful permanent residents here in Thailand - those with immigrant status - and then in 1991 through I believe it was called the Civil Registration Act, they created the Yellow House Book that can pertain to foreigners who are in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant Visa, so that's the vast majority of folks here in Thailand that are foreign, so-called expats if you will. They do not necessarily have Permanent Residence to entitle them to be in a Blue House book, but they can avail themselves of being in a Yellow House Book.

Now the question posed by this video is does having one's name in a Yellow House Book confer property rights in and of itself, and the answer to that is effectively No. Again, rights of abode it's sort of like if you call the police in America on somebody and they are in their own home - they have a signed lease to an apartment for example - police show up and the person there says, "yeah the music is loud, I want to get all these people out of here". Anybody that isn't on a signed lease is going to have to leave. In a sense, there is a presumption of abode where you have a Yellow House Book because that's your registered address, residential, so it is presumed you live there. So insofar as that is concerned, there is something of a property right or prerogative if you will in terms of there's a presumption that you live on the premises. 

But one should not mistake a Yellow House Book for Chanote Title. The Chanote is the Title deed. Whose name is on that document determines who owns the property, whereas a Yellow House Book is exactly what its name implies, it's a house registration book. It's simply an address registration for the persons living there.