Best Sansiri Projects in Phuket 2026: Ranked

Best Sansiri Projects in Phuket 2026: Ranked for Foreign Buyers

Sansiri carries seven schemes and 350 priced units on our Phuket file, from 2,435,000 THB at Dcondo Cove in Kathu to 40,500,000 at Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat in Ko Kaeo. No single project is “best”, the right choice depends on your budget, on whether you need a standing building, and on how far you are willing to be from a beach. This guide ranks them on the things the records can actually settle, and says plainly where a ranking cannot be made at all.

What the price file actually holds

Before any ranking, the inventory. This page previously described “four active Sansiri projects”; our price list carries seven schemes and 350 priced units, and three of them are finished buildings rather than promises.

Scheme	Area	Status	Priced units	Range (THB)	Median THB/sqm	Walk to beach
THE BASE Bukit	Wichit	Finished	99	2,880,000 - 6,930,000	118,333	120 min
Dcondo Cove	Kathu	Q2 2027	85	2,435,000 - 5,414,000	99,462	106 min
Canvas Cherngtalay	Bang Tao	Finished	65	6,927,000 - 21,043,000	185,716	31 min
Rhea by Sansiri	Surin	Q4 2027	44	4,810,000 - 10,150,000	154,167	7 min
The Base Rise	Wichit	Finished	40	2,690,000 - 4,980,000	129,600	120 min
Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat	Ko Kaeo	Q3 2026	11	16,800,000 - 40,500,000	83,333	200 min
The Base Cherngtalay	Bang Tao	Q3 2026	6	7,686,000 - 8,745,000	137,295	38 min

Two of those rows contradict how this page used to read. The Base Rise is finished, not off-plan, and it is the cheapest finished Sansiri unit on the island at 2,690,000 THB ($82,263). And Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat is a house scheme, eleven four-bedroom villas of 204 to 323 sqm in Ko Kaeo, which is why the Sansiri range reaches 40,500,000 THB; ranking it against a Bang Tao one-bedroom is not a comparison.

Ranking 1: what can and cannot be ranked on income

The original version of this section ranked all four projects by gross yield, gave a worked figure for one of them and put the others in bands. Every one of those numbers is withdrawn.

Thailand keeps no letting register: no authority records what a privately owned unit was let for, on how many nights, at what rate. There is no occupancy series for Surin, Bang Tao, Wichit or anywhere else on the island. So a yield ranking across seven schemes is not a ranking of anything, it orders seven assumptions, and the order is decided by whoever chose them.

What can be ranked is the metre, and it says something a yield table hides.

Scheme	Median THB per sqm	Against its own area
Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat	83,333	Villa product, not comparable to the condominiums
Dcondo Cove	99,462	Kathu area metre is 108,214, so below it
THE BASE Bukit	118,333	Wichit area metre is 111,786, so slightly above
The Base Rise	129,600	Wichit again, 16% above the area
The Base Cherngtalay	137,295	Bang Tao area metre is 161,000, so below it
Rhea by Sansiri	154,167	Surin area metre is 155,000, so below it
Canvas Cherngtalay	185,716	Bang Tao again, 15% above the area

The pattern is the opposite of the intuitive one. The cheapest tickets carry the dearest metres relative to their own area: the two Wichit Base buildings sell small units at above-Wichit rates, while the expensive coastal schemes, Rhea in Surin, The Base Cherngtalay in Bang Tao, price below their areas’ medians. What you are paying for in Wichit is a small, cheap, easily let unit, and small units always cost more per square metre; what you are paying for in Surin and Bang Tao is the address, and Sansiri is not charging a premium over the address itself.

Anyone ranking by “yield per dollar invested” is really ranking by ticket size, because the smallest ticket produces the largest percentage from any given rent. That is arithmetic about denominators, not a finding about buildings.

Ranking 2: for a buyer who wants to inspect before committing

This is the ranking that can be made without inventing anything, and it is the one that separates the seven most sharply.

Three schemes are finished: THE BASE Bukit (99 priced units, Wichit), Canvas Cherngtalay (65, Bang Tao) and The Base Rise (40, Wichit), 204 units in total. On a standing building you can walk the actual unit rather than a show flat, read the juristic person’s last two or three years of accounts, check the sinking fund balance against the building’s age, ask what the common-area charge per square metre was three years ago and what it is today, and read the minutes of the last two owners’ meetings. If the unit has been let, an owner’s statement exists. None of that is available for the other four.

Canvas Cherngtalay is the only finished Sansiri building near a beach, at 31 minutes’ walk and 29 to the airport by car. It is also the dearest metre in the lineup at 185,716 THB, and its book is dominated by two-bedrooms: 58 of its 65 priced units, from 9,790,000 to 21,043,000 THB, against seven one-bedrooms from 6,927,000. A buyer expecting a compact holiday unit here will find the choice is mostly larger than that.

The two Wichit buildings are the opposite proposition: 120 minutes’ walk from a beach, 41 to 43 minutes to the airport, and almost entirely one-bedroom, 95 of THE BASE Bukit’s 99 units and all 40 at The Base Rise. That is a long-stay residential product for people who live and work on the island, not a holiday let, and the walking distance says so more plainly than any description.

Ranking 3: for a budget

There is no competition at the bottom of the range, though the answer changes depending on whether “finished” is part of the requirement.

If your budget is	The option	Note
Under 3,000,000 THB	Dcondo Cove, from 2,435,000 (Kathu, Q2 2027)	Cheapest entry of the seven, but off-plan until Q2 2027
Under 3,000,000 THB, finished	The Base Rise, from 2,690,000 (Wichit)	8,000,000 THB dearer per square metre than nothing, it exists today
2,880,000 - 4,660,000 THB	THE BASE Bukit one-bedrooms, 95 units	The largest single pool of Sansiri stock at any price
4,810,000 - 6,240,000 THB	Rhea one-bedrooms, 17 units (Surin, Q4 2027)	7 minutes’ walk to Surin beach, the shortest in the lineup
6,927,000 THB and up	Canvas Cherngtalay	The only finished coastal option
16,800,000 THB and up	Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat	Four-bedroom houses, a different product entirely

Rhea deserves a sentence of its own because of one number: seven minutes’ walk to the beach. Across the whole Sansiri book, and across most of what we hold in Phuket generally, that is exceptional, the other six schemes run from 31 minutes to 200. Whether that translates into rental performance is unknowable here, but as a fact about the property it is the most distinctive thing any of the seven has. It delivers Q4 2027 and is sold on a 30/20/50 plan.

Ranking 4: capital growth, and why this section has no ranking

The original section here ranked all four projects by capital growth potential and stated an annual rate of price appreciation for premium condominiums in Cherng Talay over recent cycles.

That figure is withdrawn, and so is the ranking built on it. No transaction index covers Phuket condominiums, the Land Department registers transfers but does not publish a price series by area or by segment, so there is no measured appreciation rate for Cherng Talay, Surin, Wichit or the island as a whole. A ranking of seven schemes by a quantity nobody measures is a ranking of opinions.

What can be said without a series is narrower and more useful:

• Supply near you is observable. Ask what else is under construction within a kilometre of the building you are considering, including the same developer’s next phase, because that is what your unit competes against at resale. In Bang Tao specifically the pipeline is large: the corridor carries more units under construction than any other on the island.
• Finished stock is scarce and that is a durable fact, not a forecast. Of 12,054 priced apartments on our island-wide list, 871 sit in completed buildings. A buyer who requires a standing building is choosing from about 7% of the market, and three of those choices are Sansiri’s.
• Resale liquidity is a reasonable expectation, not a measurement. A recognised listed developer plausibly shortens a marketing period. Nobody publishes days-on-market for Phuket, so treat it as a judgement you are making, and price it accordingly.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does buying from a large listed developer give you? +

Delivery certainty that is verifiable rather than claimed, and a shorter marketing period at resale because the name is recognised. It does not by itself make the yield work.

Is freehold available across the range? +

In condominium products, within each building's 49% foreign-quota floor area. In villa and house products, no: foreign freehold of land is unavailable anywhere in Thailand, so those are registered leases or Thai company structures.

How should I choose between their projects? +

By location relative to what you actually want: a west-coast building for holiday letting, an east-side one near the schools and hospitals for annual tenancies. The developer is a constant across both; the demand is not.

What does the brand premium buy? +

Delivery certainty and exit recognition rather than higher yield. Whether it is worth it depends on your holding period, since a shorter hold benefits more from the faster resale and a long hold benefits more from whatever you saved elsewhere.

What should I check that the brand does not answer? +

The specific building's letting position, the juristic person's sinking fund against its age, and what is under construction nearby, including the developer's own next phase, which will compete with your resale.

The three schemes that get no headline, and why they matter

Rankings tend to be written around the flagship. On this book the flagship is Canvas, and the three schemes that never lead a ranking hold 224 of the 350 priced units between them, nearly two-thirds of everything Sansiri has on our list. They deserve their own reading.

THE BASE Bukit (Wichit, finished, 99 priced units). The largest single pool of Sansiri stock at any price, and the one most people never see because it is in the town rather than on the coast. Ninety-five of the 99 units are one-bedrooms of 26 to 35 sqm, from 2,880,000 to 4,660,000 THB, median 3,550,000, at a 118,333 THB metre against a Wichit area metre of 111,786. Four two-bedrooms sit above it from 6,140,000. The building is standing, which means everything in the inspection list applies. What it is not is a holiday asset: 120 minutes’ walk to a beach and 41 to the airport by car. It is an address for people who work on the island, and it prices accordingly.

The Base Rise (Wichit, finished, 40 priced units). All forty are one-bedrooms, 25 to 36 sqm, from 2,690,000 to 4,980,000 THB, median 4,090,000, at a 129,600 THB metre. That is 16% above the Wichit area metre and 10% above its own neighbour THE BASE Bukit, which is the price of buying the smaller unit: at 25 sqm the floor area is the smallest in the whole Sansiri book, and the smallest units always carry the dearest metre. Payment is 100% at transfer, because there is nothing left to build. For a buyer whose absolute requirement is “finished, Sansiri, under 3,000,000 THB”, this is the only entry that qualifies.

Dcondo Cove (Kathu, Q2 2027, 85 priced units). The cheapest entry of the seven at 2,435,000 THB, and the one that sits furthest below its own area metre, 99,462 against Kathu’s 108,214, an 8% discount to the district. Two other condominium schemes also price under their areas, Rhea and The Base Cherngtalay, but neither by as much. Seventy-six one-bedrooms of 24 to 35 sqm run to 3,697,000, and nine two-bedrooms of 52 sqm from 4,576,000 to 5,414,000. The trade is time and distance: Q2 2027 delivery, 106 minutes’ walk to a beach, 45 to the airport. Kathu is the inland valley between Patong and Phuket Town, which is a real residential market with schools and a hospital and no tourist demand of its own.

Read those three together and the shape of Sansiri’s Phuket book becomes clear: it is mostly small one-bedroom apartments in inland districts, sold to people who live here. The coastal schemes (Canvas, The Base Cherngtalay, Rhea) are the minority, at 115 of 350 units. A guide that ranks Sansiri as a holiday-let developer is describing a third of what it actually sells.

What all seven projects share

• SET-listed developer with audited financials and governance accountability
• 40+ years of delivery history, over 400 completed projects in Thailand
• Freehold ownership available to foreigners up to 49% of each building’s floor area, but not at Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat, which is a house scheme and therefore a registered lease or a Thai company structure
• Professional management infrastructure post-completion
• Brand recognition that plausibly supports resale liquidity; nobody publishes days-on-market for Phuket, so this is an expectation rather than a measurement
• 0% buyer commission when purchased through MORE Group as an authorised partner

Pros and cons: choosing a Sansiri project

Pros

• A SET-listed developer with audited accounts you can read before committing
• Several delivered Phuket projects, so the local record is walkable rather than only Bangkok-based
• A range of projects at once, so the choice can be made on location and format rather than on availability
• Corporate scale materially reduces the chance of a stalled site
• Strong secondary-market recognition, which widens the buyer pool at resale

What to consider:

• The Base Cherngtalay carries six priced units on our file. Whatever the sales percentage quoted to you, the choice there is between six apartments, all two-bedroom, within 1,059,000 THB of each other
• The off-plan schemes are Dcondo Cove (Q2 2027), Rhea (Q4 2027) and Setthasiri Kohkaew Retreat (Q3 2026); The Base Rise is finished, contrary to how this page previously described it
• No single project maximises every objective, and two of the objectives buyers most often start with (yield and appreciation) cannot be measured here at all
• The premium over smaller developers is real but is not uniform: on the metre, three of the six condominium schemes sell below their own area’s median

How to actually use this page

Work in this order, because the first two steps eliminate most of the book and neither of them requires a number nobody has.

1. Decide whether you need a standing building. If you do, the list is three schemes and 204 units (THE BASE Bukit, The Base Rise, Canvas Cherngtalay) and four of the seven disappear. If you do not, you gain the cheapest entry (2,435,000 THB) and the shortest beach walk (7 minutes), and you accept a delivery date between Q3 2026 and Q4 2027 plus the usual Thai off-plan buffer.

2. Decide how far from a beach you will accept. The book splits cleanly: Rhea at 7 minutes, Canvas at 31, The Base Cherngtalay at 38, then a long gap to Dcondo Cove at 106, the two Wichit buildings at 120, and Setthasiri at 200. There is no middle. That single number decides more about the tenant profile than the developer’s brand does.

3. Only then compare price, and compare it per square metre against the area rather than against the other Sansiri schemes. The table in the first section gives both. A unit that prices below its own area’s median is buying you floor area cheaply; one above is buying you something else, usually a smaller unit, a better building, or a better position, and it is worth asking which.

4. Ask for the documents the finished buildings can produce. The juristic person’s accounts for the last two or three years, the sinking fund balance against the building’s age, the common-area charge now and three years ago, the minutes of the last two owners’ meetings, and the written foreign-quota position for the specific unit. On an off-plan scheme, ask instead for the delay penalty, the long-stop date, and whether the SPA permits assignment before completion.

Nothing in that sequence produces a yield, and that is the point: the sequence is made of things you can verify before you pay, which is the only part of the decision that is actually in your control.

Frequently Asked Questions

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