It's disgusting the way they are doing this to their clients and many times without notification, the only way they find out is when they try to pay for something or withdraw some funds, I for one will be closing my Bangkok bank account when all this is sorted.
But he can OWN the house, he can get 30 year leases with a clause to extend for another 30 but the first 30 would probably be long enough for what he needs it for anyway.