Residences at Garrya Phuket

Wisteria was introduced with a deliberately different purpose. Banyan Group described the new building as a home for year-round living and explicitly stated that it would not be managed as part of the Garrya Hotel inventory. Its one- and two-bedroom residences run from roughly 57 sqm to 116 sqm. An owner can use the home continuously and may opt into Banyan Living rental services separately. That distinction matters more than the branding: Wisteria is the clearest fit within the project for someone who wants a primary or long-stay Phuket base rather than a room-like asset tied to hotel operations.

The November 2025 final release swings back toward the hospitality model. Banyan Group announced two- and three-bedroom beachfront penthouses, each with a private rooftop pool, and described them as part of the soon-to-open Garrya Hotel Phuket offering. The project therefore contains two operating logics under one master identity: independent residential use in Wisteria and hotel-managed use in other releases. A price comparison is only meaningful after deciding which of those two experiences the buyer actually wants.

The latest corporate reporting also changes the way the project should be counted. Laguna Resorts & Hotels' 2025 One Report lists Garrya Residences Phuket with 70 units and records 25 units sold, or 36%, as of 31 December 2025. Many property portals still show 38 units across four four-storey buildings; that figure corresponds to the earlier project scope and predates the 2025 additions. For a current dossier, 70 is the stronger project-level figure because it comes from the later public-company disclosure, while the older 38-unit number remains useful only for understanding why current marketplace pages disagree.

The unit mix has widened accordingly. Wisteria provides the lower entry point with one-bedroom homes of about 57–58 sqm and a two-bedroom layout around 116 sqm. Earlier two-bedroom apartments are generally shown at about 113–115 sqm. The established two-bedroom penthouses are much larger at roughly 215–220 sqm and include a private rooftop pool. The final release moves further up the scale: current independent listings identify a roughly 239 sqm two-bedroom penthouse and a 316 sqm three-bedroom penthouse, while Banyan Group itself confirms that the final collection includes both two- and three-bedroom rooftop-pool penthouses.

Wellness is not just a branding label here because the common areas are structured around it. First-party material describes a jungle-style pool, reflection pond, wellness and spa facilities, a beachfront club and bar, a lap pool and a livelier party pool. The hotel-linked residences are designed to lean most heavily on Garrya Phuket services. Wisteria remains outside the hotel room inventory but was still launched with access to the project's beachfront and wellness setting. Buyers should distinguish access to shared facilities from the separate question of whether their residence itself is placed into hotel operations.

Location is one of the easier parts of the story to verify. The site is within Laguna Phuket in Choeng Thale, close to Bang Tao Beach on Phuket's west coast. Banyan Group describes the beach as only steps away and the airport as roughly a 30-minute drive. Laguna adds an existing network of golf, dining, spas and internal transport, while the wider Bang Tao and Choeng Thale area supplies the everyday retail and services that a long-stay resident needs. This makes the setting different from a stand-alone resort that is attractive for holidays but awkward for ordinary daily life.

Tenure needs more care than most sales pages suggest. Banyan Group's earlier project material describes a leasehold ownership model for the hotel-style proposition, yet current marketplace listings range from leasehold-only descriptions to freehold or foreign-quota claims. Thailand's normal condominium framework can allow foreign freehold ownership within the statutory foreign quota, but that rule only answers the question once the legal registration and title of the specific unit are known. Because Residences at Garrya Phuket mixes hotel inventory and independent residential stock, there is not enough first-party evidence to assign one tenure formula safely to all 70 units.

The completion date is similarly release-sensitive. Current sources quote Q3 or Q4 2026 in some listings, September 2027 in others, and Q2 2028 on pages that appear to cover the expanded inventory. Banyan Group's 2025 Wisteria announcement only says that completion will coincide with the opening of Garrya Hotel Phuket, without a calendar date. As of August 2026, current market sources still describe the project as under construction. A buyer should therefore treat any headline completion date as unit-specific until the contract schedule for the chosen release is reviewed.

The price ladder is wide because these are materially different homes. FazWaz showed a one-bedroom residence from THB 15.44M when checked on 25 August 2026. Two-bedroom apartments were being marketed around THB 29.9M at the lower end, while two-bedroom penthouses sat roughly in the high-THB-60M to low-THB-70M range. Banyan Group's own November 2025 final-phase announcement quoted penthouses from approximately THB 67.3M. These numbers are useful budget anchors, not a live developer price sheet; availability, furnishing, tenure, management terms and payment timing can change the actual transaction.

The project makes the most sense when approached as a choice of operating model rather than a single investment story. Wisteria is the obvious part to investigate for full-time or unrestricted personal occupation. The hotel-linked apartments and final penthouses suit a buyer who actively wants professional hospitality management and is comfortable with the personal-use framework attached to it. That is why comparing homes purely by price per square metre would miss the decisive issue: how the residence can actually be used after purchase.