Vietnam Property Check publishes foreign-buyer apartment purchase registrations for Hanoi, sourced from official filings, with full traceability back to the source document for every record. It is a data-transparency project, not a due-diligence business — see /methodology for what that means in practice.
The Housing Law 2023, Land Law 2024, and Real Estate Business Law 2023 created a clearer legal framework for foreign ownership in Vietnam, including a 30%-of-units foreign ownership quota per building and a selling-permit requirement for off-plan sales. This information is published — but across dozens of Vietnamese-language government PDFs and spreadsheets, in inconsistent formats, updated at irregular intervals.
This project parses those filings, normalizes the Vietnamese text, and republishes the resulting records with their source file, extraction method, and a confidence indicator attached to each row. It does not compute foreign-quota fill percentages, because there is no reliable public source for the total unit count per building — see /methodology for the full reasoning.
All data is sourced directly from official Vietnamese government portals. We do not use real estate marketplace data, agent listings, or third-party aggregators.
Foreign-buyer purchase registration lists (PDF/Excel)
Our checks are based on the legal requirements introduced by three laws that came into effect on 01.08.2024.
Housing Law 2023
Governs foreign ownership rights, leasehold terms (50 years, renewable), and quota limits (≤30% of units per building). Effective 01.08.2024.
Real Estate Business Law 2023 (REBL)
Requires developers to obtain a selling permit before collecting deposits for off-plan projects. Defines valid sales agreements.
Land Law 2024
Clarifies land use rights for foreigners, restrictions near national security zones (≥500m buffer), and Viet Kieu land inheritance rights.
Data collection. A Python pipeline is run manually against PDF/Excel lists published by the Hanoi Department of Construction. There is no scheduled scraper and no OCR step — files without an extractable text layer are logged as unparsed, not guessed at.
Normalisation. All Vietnamese text is normalised using NFKC Unicode. Project names are matched to a project registry by filename and address pattern; unmatched rows stay in the dataset as unresolved rather than being dropped or guessed into a project.
No risk scoring. This site does not compute a risk score, a quota-fill percentage, or an encumbrance check — none of those have a reliable data source behind them today. What is shown is limited to what the source filings actually contain.
Limitations. Full, itemized list at /methodology — including known data gaps, why quota fill isn't calculated, and the difference between when a document was published and when a record was loaded. Always verify critical decisions with a licensed Vietnamese property lawyer.
Vietnam Property Check provides information services only. Nothing on this platform constitutes legal or financial advice. Data accuracy depends on government portal updates, which may lag behind actual project status. Always verify information directly with the relevant Vietnamese authority or a licensed lawyer before transacting. We are not responsible for decisions made based on data provided through this platform.