For the time being, these are the general rules to do with land.
Lao citizens can have what is called ‗land use rights‘ over land, which is roughly equivalent to ‗land ownership‘ or ‗estate in fee simple‘ that may be familiar to you from your home country.
Lao citizens‘ ‗land use rights‘ are different to ‗land ownership‘ in that the Lao citizen owner has those land use rights subject to the underlying ownership of the land by the Lao state.
Foreigners may take out long term leases over land ‗owned‘ by Lao citizens or the State.
Foreigners may own buildings but not the land they are built on.
There have been some recent legislative changes potentially allowing foreigners to own land, under very narrow circumstances, but the exact extent of these changes is not clear yet and information about these changes should be treated with a great deal of caution.
Over 2,600 land-lease and concession agreements were granted covering a total of 1.1 million hectares of territory, or roughly 5% of Lao PDR‘s land. The territory exceeds the area used for wet rice production.