Zenithy La Ville Review 2026: Prices & Yield

Zenithy La Ville: Where Phuket’s Expat Families Actually Live

Bang Tao gets the Instagram posts. Koh Kaew gets the expats who stay.

Positioned between Phuket town, the international schools corridor, and Central Festival (Phuket’s largest mall), Koh Kaew has quietly become the address of choice for families who base themselves in Phuket long-term. Zenithy La Ville brings a carefully considered villa product to this market: 22 private-pool villas with 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and around 342 sqm of built-up area each, completing in Q1 2027.

Prices start at 19,425,000 THB, a meaningful number, but one that buys considerably more space and lifestyle than an equivalent budget would deliver in Bang Tao or Cherngtalay.

Location: Koh Kaew: Phuket’s Most Underrated Address

The case for Koh Kaew is built on infrastructure rather than scenery:

Schools: Several of Phuket’s top international schools cluster in this zone. British International School Phuket (BISP), HeadStart International School, and others are all within a short drive. For families making a medium- or long-term commitment to life in Phuket, this radius matters enormously.

Shopping and services: Central Festival Phuket, the island’s largest and most complete shopping centre, is around 10 minutes away. Macro, BigC, and major supermarkets are equally close.

Phuket town: Phuket’s old town, with its Sino-Portuguese architecture, independent restaurants, weekend markets, and growing creative scene, is under 15 minutes. The town is increasingly popular with longer-term residents as a cultural counterweight to the resort zones.

Airport: The northern tip of Koh Kaew connects quickly to the airport road. For frequent travellers, this is a meaningful convenience.

Beaches: Bang Tao, Surin, and Kamala are 20-25 minutes. Patong is under 20 minutes via the bypass road. Close enough for a weekend beach day; far enough to avoid the tourist-season congestion.

Rental demand in Koh Kaew is driven by corporate relocation, family school enrollment, and long-term expats working in Phuket town or in businesses that don’t need a beach address. Monthly rents for well-furnished 3BR pool villas in this area typically range from 60,000-120,000 THB depending on size, finish, and garden quality.

Design and Units

The 3-bedroom, 4-bathroom configuration is a deliberate choice. Four bathrooms in a 3-bedroom villa means each bedroom has an ensuite, and there is a guest or utility bathroom as well. For families with children, for couples who host regularly, or for rental configurations that need to market a premium product, this specification matters.

The design aesthetic follows Zenithy’s consistent approach across its portfolio: contemporary tropical, with clean architectural lines, large windows and sliding doors connecting interior to exterior, and a material palette that leans on natural tones, stone, timber, warm concrete, rather than high-gloss finishes that date quickly in Phuket’s climate.

Ground-floor volumes are open-plan, with the kitchen, dining, and living areas flowing onto a covered terrace and then the private pool. Upper floors carry the bedrooms, with the master suite typically positioned for privacy from the road and from common areas.

The development itself has 22 villas, large enough to sustain a managed community with shared costs for landscaping and security, but small enough to avoid the impersonal scale of resort-style projects. Q1 2027 completion gives buyers approximately 3-4 quarters of construction progress from now, with the development already underway.

The payment plan, 30% on signing, then three milestone payments of 20%, and 10% on completion, is structured to spread outlay across the build timeline without requiring a large balloon payment at the end.

Who Is Zenithy La Ville For?

Long-term rental investors who want steady occupancy from corporate tenants, school-season families, and expat professionals. Monthly rent income from a well-managed 3BR villa in Koh Kaew is predictable in a way that holiday short-let income in beach zones often isn’t.

Value-conscious buyers who find that 19-25M THB in Bang Tao buys a 2-bedroom condo or a very dated villa, but in Koh Kaew buys a brand-new 3BR 342-sqm pool villa with a Q1 2027 delivery date.

Second-home buyers who visit Phuket several times per year and want a proper base, space for a home office, room for visiting family, a pool in the garden, rather than a hotel-sized unit.

Buyers already in Phuket’s condo market looking to step up to villa ownership without stepping into the 30M+ THB bracket. Zenithy La Ville’s range (under 42M THB at the top) makes it accessible for buyers who have already built equity in Phuket property.

Pricing the school run

Koh Kaew’s entire premise is that families choose it for the schools, and that premise is worth converting into numbers rather than leaving as a lifestyle claim, because it is what makes an inland villa worth 19.4M THB.

A family with two children in international school in Phuket makes the same journey twice a day, five days a week, for however many years they stay. From Koh Kaew that journey is ten to fifteen minutes. From a beach address in Rawai or Nai Harn it can be forty-five each way in morning traffic. Over a school year that difference is measured in weeks of somebody’s life, and it is the single most common reason families who bought for the beach sell and move inland within three years. Buying the short journey at the outset is cheaper than buying the beach and then buying the short journey.

The rental case follows the same logic and is the reason this villa lets well despite having no sea view. Your tenant is a relocating family, a corporate posting, or a professional couple on a two or three year contract (see the rental yield guide for how long-let maths differs from nightly), and they are choosing on exactly the same criteria you are. That produces twelve-month tenancies at 60,000 to 120,000 THB, high occupancy, and almost no turnover cost, which is a very different asset from a beach villa that earns most of its money in five months.

What you give up is the holiday market entirely, and with it the top of the rate card. Nobody flies to Phuket for a week and books an inland villa in Koh Kaew. If the plan involves nightly letting, compare the best areas guide instead, because this is the wrong purchase; if it involves a resident tenant or your own family living here, the arithmetic is better than anything comparable on the coast.

One caveat worth checking before you commit to the school premise: confirm that your children can actually get places at the school you are buying near. Seats at the popular international schools are not guaranteed, and a villa bought for a school run to a school with no vacancies is just an inland villa.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• 342 sqm three-bedroom pool villas from 19.4M THB, a footprint the beach corridors do not offer at this price
• Inside the school run for BISP, HeadStart and several bilingual schools, which is why families cluster here
• The bypass road puts Patong under 20 minutes and most of the island within reach without crossing it twice
• A resident, year-round neighbourhood rather than a seasonal one, which supports long-let occupancy
• Q1 2027 completion is near-term by current Phuket standards

Cons

• A villa is never foreign freehold: ownership is a registered lease or a Thai company, see freehold vs leasehold
• Not a beach-facing location, beaches are 20-25 min away
• Koh Kaew is less well-known than Bang Tao/Cherngtalay to international buyers
• Top-end pricing (over 41M THB) for the largest villas requires significant capital
• Short-stay rental performance will be weaker than in tourist beach zones
• No on-site resort amenities, residents rely on nearby commercial infrastructure

Two formats, and the family that rents each

Koh Kaew is bought for the school run, and the letting case follows from that rather than from a beach.

	The 19,425,000 THB end	The 41,328,000 THB end
Who takes it	A family on an academic-year lease	A larger household, or two families sharing
Lease length	Usually a year, often renewed	The same, from a smaller pool of tenants
When it turns over	August, and rarely otherwise	August, and more slowly
Void risk	Concentrated in one month	Concentrated, and longer if it happens
Resale buyer	Another school-catchment family	A narrower group, at a slower pace

Both ends are the same business at different scale: an annual tenancy rather than a nightly rate card. Judge the yield against a long lease, and treat any holiday income as outside the base case.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the price range for villas at Zenithy La Ville? +

Villas are priced from 19,425,000 THB to 41,328,000 THB depending on villa size and plot position. The entry price for a 3-bedroom, 4-bathroom villa with private pool at 342 sqm represents strong value per square metre for a new-build in Phuket.

When will Zenithy La Ville be completed? +

The project is scheduled for completion in Q1 2027. Buyers should confirm the latest construction progress and milestone dates directly with MORE Group, who maintain ongoing contact with the developer.

How far is Zenithy La Ville from the beach? +

Koh Kaew is an inland residential area. Bang Tao and Surin beaches are approximately 20-25 minutes by car. Patong Beach is under 20 minutes via the Phuket bypass road. The trade-off for this distance is significantly more space and a quieter, family-oriented environment compared to beach-zone villa prices.

Which international schools are nearby? +

Koh Kaew sits within easy reach of British International School Phuket (BISP), HeadStart International School, and several other international and bilingual schools, most within 10-15 minutes. This is one of the main reasons expat families choose this area.

What is the rental potential for a villa at Zenithy La Ville? +

Long-term rental (monthly or annual) is the strongest use case here. Well-furnished 3BR pool villas in Koh Kaew typically achieve 60,000-120,000 THB per month from corporate, family, and expat professional tenants. Holiday short-let income is possible but less predictable than in beach-zone properties.

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