Condos for sale in Phuket: 129 condominium buildings, foreign freehold explained, prices by district and the finished buildings you can move into

Phuket’s condominium buildings by district

Phuket sells condominiums along one coast, and the map of the 135 buildings on this site is the map of the west coast from Mai Khao to Nai Harn with a detour into the Kathu valley. Bang Tao holds 56 of them, more than the rest of the island together, and the other districts follow at a distance. The table covers each district with a building on the catalogue on 5 September 2026: buildings counted, buildings finished, the lowest developer starting price, the median, and what kind of unit the district actually sells. All figures come from the project cards, each of which names its source and date.

The price bands tell a buyer where a budget lands. Of the 120 priced buildings, 15 start under 3,000,000 THB, 44 between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 THB, 39 between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 THB and 22 at 10,000,000 THB or more. Five million THB, about $152,905 at 32.7 THB per dollar, therefore reaches 59 buildings; ten million reaches 98. The all Phuket property page sets these buildings beside the island’s 149 villa estates, and the Phuket villas page covers the other product.

What a Phuket condominium is: low-rise, small units, big buildings

Phuket’s condominiums do not look like Bangkok’s or Pattaya’s, and the reason is planning law. The island’s town plan steps building heights up from the shoreline, so the towers that define Jomtien and Sukhumvit do not exist here; of the buildings on this site that state their height, the median is seven floors and none exceeds eight. What the developers have done instead is build wide: the median building among those that publish unit counts has about 245 units, 14 buildings have more than 300, and the largest, in Kathu, has 814. A Phuket condominium is therefore typically a cluster of low blocks around a pool deck rather than a single tower, and a buyer should ask which block, which floor and which orientation, because the pool-facing upper units and the road-facing ground units in the same building are different purchases at different prices.

The units are small. Among the 110 buildings that publish sizes, the smallest unit in a typical building is about 35 square metres and the largest about 95. Forty-three of the 135 buildings lead with a studio, and the studios run from 22 square metres at VIP Great Hill in Nai Yang and 24 to 33 at Utopia Central in Kathu to about 35 in the Cherng Talay buildings. One-bedrooms of 35 to 60 square metres are the island’s standard product, two-bedrooms of 60 to 100 square metres the next tier, and anything larger is a Laguna residence: Angsana Oceanview’s units run from 209 to 304 square metres, Laguna Reef’s from 131.

Insider tip: in a Phuket building the metre rate can differ by a fifth between a ground-floor studio facing the car park and a top-floor one-bedroom facing the pool, and the price list shows it if you read it by the square metre rather than by the unit. Ask for the full list with areas and floors, not the brochure’s “from” price, and compare the rate of the unit you are offered with the rate of the building’s median unit.

Bang Tao and Laguna: one district, three condominium markets

Bang Tao’s 56 buildings are not one market, and a buyer who treats the district median of 6,836,950 THB as a price will be surprised in both directions. The Cherng Talay low-rises, inland of the beach road and around the Boat Avenue and Porto de Phuket shopping streets, sell studios and one-bedrooms from 1,800,000 THB at Apple House and 2,310,000 THB at The Cube Amaze to about 7,000,000 THB at CANVAS Cherngtalay and The Title Legendary; they are the district’s volume product, they house the island’s remote workers and its long-stay Europeans, and twelve of them are completed. The lagoon-side and golf-side residences inside Laguna, Cassia, the Lakelands and the Golf Residences, sell one- and two-bedroom units from about 5,000,000 THB to the Lakelands’ waterfront residences at 54,800,000 THB, with the resort’s facilities and Banyan Tree’s management attached. And the beachfront residences, Laguna Reef Beachside at 27,000,000 THB, Laguna Beach Residences Seashore at 22,700,000 THB and Bayside at 27,700,000 THB, and Angsana Oceanview at 45,820,000 THB, are the top of the island’s condominium market, 131 to 304 square metres of residence with the sea across the lawn. The same district, and a price range of thirty times between the cheapest and the dearest unit; the Bang Tao and Laguna guide separates the three by street.

Patong and the Kathu valley: the studio market

Patong’s nine buildings and the Kathu valley behind the hill are where Phuket’s condominium prices begin, and they sell one thing well: the studio. Utopia Central in Kathu has 405 units of 24 to 33 square metres from 1,450,000 THB, completed; Sansiri’s The Base Rise has 326 units of 31 to 36 square metres from 2,690,000 THB and THE BASE Bukit from 2,880,000 THB for 26 to 35 square metres, both completed; DCondo Cove at 2,435,000 THB and Origin Place Centre at 2,490,000 THB are the off-plan schemes from Bangkok’s listed developers at the same price point. The buyers are of two kinds: investors letting to the workers and long-stay visitors of the island’s busiest town, and Thai and foreign residents who work in Patong and want to live ten minutes from it without the noise. The valley’s drawback is the hill road to the west-coast beaches in high-season traffic; its advantage is that it is the one part of the island where a completed unit by a listed developer costs less than 3,000,000 THB. The Patong guide covers the town’s streets and its letting rules building by building.

Nai Yang and the airport corridor: small units by a quiet beach

Nai Yang’s seven buildings sit between the airport runway and a beach inside the Sirinat national park, and they sell the island’s smallest units at its second-lowest prices. VIP Great Hill’s studios of 22 to 25 square metres start at 1,849,000 THB, completed; Royal Lee’s units of 30 to 70 square metres from 3,217,133 THB, completed; The Title Halo 1, 329 units from 36 square metres at 5,128,240 THB, completed and the district’s largest building. The corridor’s buyers are people who fly often, who want a beach that tour buses do not visit, and who accept aircraft overhead for a lower price; the Mai Khao and north Phuket guide explains the national park’s building limits, which keep the beachfront low and the supply small, and the VIP Thailand guide is the read before a Nai Yang studio.

Rawai and the south: condominiums for people who live here

Rawai’s thirteen buildings and the three in Nai Harn are the island’s residential condominium market in the plain sense of the word: the owners live in them. The buildings are small, The Proud Rawai with 48 units of 31 to 70 square metres from 3,625,000 THB and Babylon Sky Garden 2 with 49 units from 5,186,400 THB, both completed, against the 300-unit blocks of Kathu and Cherng Talay; the median building starts at 4,828,000 THB; and Utopia Mini’s 30-square-metre studios in Nai Harn from 2,600,000 THB are the south’s entry price. The buyers are long-stay foreigners who have chosen the south for Nai Harn beach, the Chalong hospitals and the quieter roads, retirees on annual extensions, and the owners of the district’s many small businesses. Rental programmes are rare here, short lets are usually banned by the regulations, and the tenant market is people who sign for a year. A buyer who wants a home in Phuket rather than an asset should start in this district and read the Rawai guide and the Nai Harn guide, which cover the streets between the two beaches and the drive times to the rest of the island.

The south’s limitation is supply. Thirteen buildings and two completed ones is a thin market, most of the new stock is off-plan, and the district’s villas outnumber its condominiums in the price range where a family would look. Buyers who cannot find a unit in Rawai often end up in a Chalong building near the marinas, two of which sit on this site from 2,671,200 THB, or accept a longer drive from Kata.

Foreign freehold in Phuket: how the 49 percent works in practice

The Condominium Act lets foreigners own up to 49 percent of the total floor area of the units in any registered building, and Phuket’s developers have built a sales strategy on that clause. A building aimed at foreign buyers sells its foreign quota first, at the list price; once the quota is full, the remaining units are offered to foreigners on a 30-year lease from a Thai-registered owner, usually the developer’s company, at a discount that on many Phuket schemes is the clearest statement of what the freehold right is worth. The same unit, the same view, two rights and two prices.

Three checks follow. Before reserving, ask the developer in writing how much foreign floor area has been sold and how much remains, and on a completed building get the juristic person’s register of foreign owners rather than a sales assurance. When paying, send the purchase price from abroad in foreign currency, in your own name, marked as payment for the unit, so that the bank on the Thai side produces the Foreign Exchange Transaction record without which the Land Office will not register a foreign owner; a unit paid for with baht already in Thailand cannot go into the foreign quota. On transfer day, leave the Land Office with the Or Chor 2, the condominium title deed, in your own name, showing the unit’s area and its share of the common property. The foreign quota guide and the condominium title guide go through each step.

A Thai company buying a unit in the Thai quota is legitimate if the company trades and its Thai shareholders paid for their shares, and a nominee arrangement if they did not; after the registrar’s and Land Department’s scrutiny of 2025 and 2026 it is a poor way to hold a holiday flat. A leasehold condominium is a lawful and cheaper route, priced as a 30-year right; the freehold versus leasehold guide explains how to value one. Every nationality buys on these terms; the guide for European buyers adds the tax side at home.

The 27 completed buildings

Buyers who want to inspect a unit, read a juristic person’s accounts and confirm the quota at the Land Office on the same day have 27 buildings to choose from on this site. Two do not publish a starting price.

A completed building is a different purchase from an off-plan one, and the diligence changes with it. The unit can be measured against the title. The juristic person’s accounts reveal whether the sinking fund is intact, how many owners are behind on fees, and whether a levy is being planned. The general meeting minutes reveal the quarrels. And the Land Office confirms the foreign quota as it stands rather than as it was planned. The premium a completed unit carries over the off-plan building next door is the price of knowing all of that.

Hotel-run buildings and residential buildings

Seventy-two of the 135 buildings on this site mention a rental programme, a hotel operator or a brand in their material, and that single fact divides Phuket’s condominium market into two products that share a legal form. A residential building is owned and run by its owners through the juristic person; a unit is a home first and a letting second, the regulations usually restrict short stays, and the resale buyer is another resident. A hotel-run building puts its units into a rental pool operated by a hotel company, limits the owner’s own use to a set number of nights, splits gross revenue between operator and owners, and sells to investors who will resell to investors. Laguna’s residences under Banyan Tree’s brands, Angsana, Cassia and Garrya, the InterContinental residences in Kamala and the MGallery residences at MontAzure are the branded end of that product; many unbranded Cherng Talay and Patong buildings run the same model without the name.

Neither product is wrong, but buying one while wanting the other is the most common mistake on the island. A buyer who wants a home should look for a building whose regulations ban nightly letting and whose owners live there; a buyer who wants a managed asset should read the management agreement as the governing document and price the unit on the operator’s contract rather than on the title. The guaranteed return guide explains the rental programmes that come with the second kind, and why a guarantee is the buyer’s own money returned on a schedule.

Who builds Phuket’s condominiums

A handful of developers account for much of the supply on this page, and their records are readable. Banyan Tree’s Laguna group carries nine schemes on this site, from Cassia and the Lakelands to the beachfront residences, covered in the Laguna developer guide and the Banyan Group guide. Sansiri, Thailand’s largest listed housebuilder, has completed three The Base buildings on the island and sells DCondo Cove off-plan in Patong; the Sansiri guide sets out its Phuket record. The Title builds low-rise resort condominiums in Nai Yang, Rawai, Kata and Bang Tao, fifteen schemes on this site and three of them completed, and the Title developer guide compares its phases. Utopia and VIP Thailand each have four schemes here at the entry end of the market, and the VIP Thailand guide is the read before a Nai Yang studio. Origin, Skypark and the Gardens of Eden schemes carry three each. For everyone else the developer reputation guide sets out the company search, the delivery history and the permit check.

Off-plan buildings: what 108 of 135 asks of a buyer

Most Phuket condominiums are sold before they exist, and the law does little to protect the buyer’s instalments while they are built. Escrow under the 2008 Act is voluntary and almost never offered, so the protection is the contract and the developer. Four documents decide whether a reservation is safe. The environmental impact assessment, which any residential building of 80 units or 4,000 square metres must obtain, delays more Phuket buildings than any other document, and most buildings on this page are large enough to need one; a building marketed before its assessment is approved has a completion date that is a hope. The construction permit for the specific building, matching the plans and the height rules. The land title under the building, in the developer’s name and free of undisclosed mortgages. And the developer’s delivery history, projects finished against the dates advertised.

The contract should tie instalments to construction stages rather than to calendar dates, carry a delay penalty and a refund right, state a built-area tolerance with a price adjustment if the unit comes in smaller, and set a defects period after handover. The off-plan guide works through the clauses, the escrow guide explains what to ask for in place of escrow, and the handover checklist covers the snagging visit when the unit is finally handed over.

What a Phuket condominium costs to buy and to hold

The purchase costs are national rates; the holding costs are set by the building. At transfer, a 2 percent fee on the appraised value, usually split with the seller by contract and often absorbed by the developer on an off-plan sale; the seller’s specific business tax, 3.3 percent inside five years of ownership, or 0.5 percent stamp duty beyond it, together with the seller’s withholding tax; a one-off sinking fund contribution set by the developer per square metre; the first period’s common-area fee in advance; and a lawyer’s fee that starts near 40,000 THB when the purchase is a simple foreign-quota unit. Where a listing quotes a 0.01 percent transfer fee, it is quoting the Thai-buyer relief on homes priced to 7,000,000 THB that runs to June 2027; foreign buyers pay 2 percent.

Every year, the common-area fee, set per square metre per month by the juristic person and covering security, the pool, lifts, gardens, common electricity and the building’s insurance; Land and Building Tax at 0.02 percent of the assessed value for a residence; and electricity and water for the unit, with the caution that buildings selling to foreigners sometimes bill electricity above the Provincial Electricity Authority’s tariff. The transfer fees guide has the worked examples and the tax guide the yearly rates.

Letting a Phuket condominium: the building decides

Whether a Phuket unit can earn is decided by the building before it is decided by the market. Letting by the night falls under the Hotel Act of 2004, and is lawful in a licensed building or through a licensed operator and unlawful in a residential building whose regulations ban it, and juristic persons across the island have tightened those regulations since 2023 as owners tired of suitcases in the lift. Tenancies of 30 days or more are open to any owner in any building. Guests are reported on a TM30 form, which a management company should do and be able to prove. Rent paid to a non-resident owner carries 15 percent withholding tax at source; an owner resident 180 days or more files a Thai return with a 30 percent standard deduction.

What no building can tell a buyer is the income, and this page does not guess. Thailand keeps no letting register, and every occupancy and nightly-rate figure in a Phuket brochure is the seller’s projection. The honest inputs are a completed building’s actual letting history through its management company and the operator’s contract, and the model is the buyer’s own.

Matching the condominium to the buyer: five briefs

A unit to let to the tourist trade. Patong, Kathu and Karon, in a building whose regulations permit short stays or that runs a licensed programme, from 1,450,000 THB.

A base for winters and long lets between. Rawai and Nai Harn, in a completed low-rise near the beach road, from 2,600,000 THB, in a building where the neighbours are residents. An owner who stays two months and lets the other ten has a different brief, weighed district by district in the two-months-a-year guide.

A managed residence with a brand. Laguna, in a Banyan Tree residence from about 22,500,000 THB, or Kamala’s branded buildings, with the operator’s agreement read as the governing document.

A first purchase in Thailand at the lowest risk. A completed Cherng Talay or Bang Tao building by a developer with a record, from 1,800,000 THB, inside the foreign quota, with accounts to read.

A view over a lagoon or the sea. Bang Tao’s lagoon-front buildings and Kata’s and Kamala’s hillside blocks, from about 3,000,000 THB, with the orientation and the floor checked against the price list.

Buyers comparing Phuket’s buildings with Bangkok’s, Pattaya’s or Samui’s can start from the Thailand condos page; for the streets themselves, read the guides to Bang Tao, Cherng Talay, Patong, Rawai, Kamala and Kata; and the condo versus villa comparison is for buyers not yet sure of the product.

How MORE Group works on a Phuket condominium

MORE Group’s team is on the island and has reviewed every building above, with the source and date of each figure on the card and blank fields where a developer has not confirmed a fact. The fee on a new-build sale is paid by the developer, which leaves the buyer paying the list price. What the buyer gets is a shortlist matched to a written brief, the quota and title checks at the Land Office, the juristic person’s accounts or the developer’s permits, the regulations on letting, the contract, the transfer of funds with the Foreign Exchange Transaction record, and the transfer day itself, with a plain answer when a building does not stand up.