The short version: Roi Et is not a condominium market. BAANLYY checked the Thai rental and sale portals for this province in August 2026 and found no named condominium project anywhere in it, on a total visible presence of about thirty-five apartment listings for 1.28 million people. Being one of the better-provisioned provinces in Isaan has not produced a condominium sector, because the two things are driven by completely different forces. If you specifically want a lift, a pool and a gym, the nearest real market is Khon Kaen, about 113 kilometres northwest.
What follows is what the province does have, described honestly, plus a methodological note we think matters more than the finding itself. Reading a zero in a portal filter as evidence of absence is a mistake we have made before and are not going to repeat here — the section below sets out why the amenity facets in this province cannot carry that weight, and what the real evidence for a no-condo market looks like instead.
Roi Et's actual housing stock
Rooms, apartments and mansion blocks
Mueang Roi Et and the Selaphum campus belt · the formal rental sectorThis is where almost all of Roi Et's formal, purpose-built rental stock is. In the provincial town it clusters around the hospital, the markets and the education anchors — Roi Et Industrial and Community Education College and the Mahamakut Buddhist University campus are the two largest demand drivers visible in the portal data. In Selaphum it clusters around Roi Et Rajabhat University at Ko Kaeo, where the cheapest formal housing in the province sits, with blocks quoting from around 1,500 baht a month. Across the province our August 2026 check found observed asking rents running roughly 1,500 to 7,000 baht a month and clustering around 2,000 to 4,500. A high proportion of these properties also quote daily rates of roughly 250 to 700 baht, which is the tell that much of the stock is a serviced-room or dormitory hybrid rather than long-lease residential — useful to know before you negotiate a twelve-month term.
Townhouses and detached houses
The town municipality, Si Somdet and the district townsFor anyone who wants space rather than a room, the answer here is a house — which in a province with this much flat, cheap land is not the compromise it would be in Bangkok. Townhouses and detached houses in and around the town municipality and in Si Somdet are the realistic family option, and they are what most relocating families end up in given that the international school is inside the municipality on Airport Road. In the district towns of the Thung Kula plain and the north, the same stock exists at lower prices. Almost none of it is advertised nationally; it is found by walking, asking, and through agents and LINE.
Village houses and farm compounds
The eastern uplands, the Thung Kula plain and the Chi–Mun confluenceAcross the twenty districts, the housing that exists is village houses and farm compounds let directly by their owners, effectively never advertised online. This is the majority of the province's housing by volume and it is entirely invisible to any remote search. The one location-specific caution worth carrying into a viewing is in the southeastern corner around Phanom Phrai, At Samat and Thung Khao Luang, where the Chi meets the Mun: that is the province's lowest ground and its best paddy for the same reason, and flood and drainage history is a real question there rather than a formality.
The verified building directory
On the BAANLYY backlog, and labelled as suchBAANLYY does not publish a developer, completion year, floor count, unit count or coordinate for any building we have not individually confirmed, and we have confirmed none in Roi Et. That is why this page has no building directory: not because the work has not been queued, but because the alternative would be republishing unchecked portal metadata as if it were verified. A verified directory for this province sits on the BAANLYY data backlog and will appear here when the buildings behind it have been checked one at a time.
Why we did not use the amenity filters
A tempting shortcut for a page like this is to point at the portal's facility filters: no listings with a lift, none with a swimming pool, none with a gym — therefore no condominiums. In Roi Et those filters do return zero for all three. They also return zero for air conditioning, fans, wifi, parking, keycard access, CCTV and security, which self-evidently exist in rental stock at 2,000 to 4,500 baht a month in Thailand. When a facet returns zero for something that must be present, the facet is unpopulated for that province and it is not measuring anything. So none of those zeroes appear as findings on this page. The evidence we do rely on is simpler and stands on its own: across every portal we checked, no named condominium project exists in Roi Et province — not one building with a project name, a developer and a unit count. That is a finding about the market rather than about the database.
Housing questions
Are there any condos in Roi Et?
No verified ones. BAANLYY spot-checked the Thai rental and sale portals for this province in August 2026 and found no named condominium project anywhere in Roi Et. The province's entire visible rental presence was about thirty-five apartment listings — twenty-one in Mueang Roi Et, six in Selaphum, three in Suwannaphum, two in Si Somdet and one each in Thawat Buri and Pho Chai — with observed asking rents of roughly 1,500 to 7,000 baht a month. That is portal visibility rather than a census, and the real market here is walk-in, agent and LINE. But the absence of any named condominium project is consistent across everything we checked, and we do not publish building records we have not individually verified.
The portal filters say no building in Roi Et has a lift or a pool. Is that right?
It is not usable evidence, and this is worth explaining because it is exactly the kind of number that looks authoritative and is not. RentHub's amenity filters for Roi Et do return zero for lift, swimming pool and fitness — but they also return zero for air conditioning, fans, wifi, parking, CCTV and security, all of which certainly exist in Thai rental stock at these prices. When a filter facet returns zero for something that must be present, the facet is unpopulated metadata for that province rather than a finding about it. So we do not cite those zeroes. The evidence that Roi Et has no condominium market is the different and much better one: no named condominium project appears anywhere in the province's listing set, on any portal we checked.
Why does a province that ranks 10th nationally have no condo market?
Because human development and property-market depth are independent axes, and Roi Et is a clean demonstration of it. The province ranked tenth of seventy-seven on the 2022 Human Achievement Index at 0.6654, in the "high" band — a composite of health, education, employment and income — and it has an 879-bed regional teaching hospital, an IB World School, a Rajabhat university and a daily jet to Bangkok to show for it. What drives condominium development is something else entirely: a mass-transit line, a tourism economy, a foreign-buyer market, or a large white-collar employment base. Roi Et has none of those. It has 1.28 million people, an agricultural economy built on GI-registered jasmine rice, no railway, and no foreign-resident population bidding for a lift and a pool. Well-provisioned and undeveloped are not contradictory.
What should I actually rent in Roi Et?
It depends on what you are optimising for. If you want walkability and the international school, take a townhouse or a house in or near the town municipality, or a room or apartment unit in the centre if you are on your own — expect the 2,500 to 7,000 baht range for something reasonable. If you want the lowest formal rent, look at the student blocks around Roi Et Rajabhat University at Ko Kaeo in Selaphum, where asking rents start around 1,500, and budget for a motorbike. If you want land and quiet, look at houses in the district towns and villages, and understand that you will find them by being there rather than by searching. Whatever you choose, arrive first and take something short-term while you look — remote searching does not work in a market this thin.
Can foreigners buy property in Roi Et?
The same national rules apply here as anywhere in Thailand: foreigners generally cannot own land outright, and the standard condominium route — foreign freehold within the 49 per cent foreign-quota allowance of a registered condominium building — is not available in Roi Et for the simple reason that BAANLYY could not verify a registered condominium project anywhere in the province. That leaves long leases, a Thai company structure, or ownership through a Thai spouse, each of which carries real legal complexity and each of which should be taken to a qualified Thai property lawyer rather than to a seller's agent. This page is general information and not legal advice.
Sources & References
- Roi Et province — Wikipedia
- Apartments for rent in Roi Et — RentHub
- Tourism Authority of Thailand
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
Primary and official sources are cited above. Government rules, fees and procedures in Thailand change over time and vary by office; always confirm current requirements with the relevant authority before relying on them. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.
General information and indicative pricing, not legal, tax or financial advice. Foreign ownership of Thai property is legally restricted and structures marketed as workarounds carry real risk — take advice from a qualified Thai property lawyer, not from a seller. Hero photo via Pexels.
