Phuket Condo Budgets and Floor Space

A THB 5 million figure can represent very different things. One listing may quote the full asking price of an identifiable condo, while another shows a launch price, a deposit or a starting figure attached to a unit type that is not currently available. Floor-space comparisons only become meaningful when the full price of a specific unit is known.

A “from” price is therefore useful only when it can be tied to an available condo with a stated floor area and total price. These are asking prices, not recorded transaction prices; they show what sellers were requesting at the snapshot date, before any negotiation.

Documented one-off charges can sit alongside the purchase price in an all-in scenario for that particular unit. Monthly or annual common-area charges belong in a separate ownership-cost line, because rolling them into the headline purchase price mixes two different types of spending. Transfer and registration costs also cannot be assigned to one side by default without the terms of the actual deal.

The figures on this page are a snapshot of active public listings observed on 27 September 2026. Availability can disappear or prices can change, so the ranges describe that market moment rather than guaranteeing a future unit at the same price.

The table covers 200 unique condos with a stated full asking price and floor area that were publicly available on 27 September 2026. The floor-space range is the 25th–75th percentile, capturing the middle half of each budget band. These are asking-price listings rather than completed sales, and a condo appearing in a price band does not by itself confirm that its ownership route is available to a particular foreign buyer.

The clearest location gap appears between THB 3 million and THB 5 million. Condos in Phuket Town and the island’s inland areas have a median floor area of 51 sq m across 14 listings, compared with roughly 33 sq m across 10 west-coast listings. The southern group sits between them at 43 sq m across 11 listings. That is an 18 sq m median gap inside the same budget band.

A similar pattern remains at THB 5–8 million, although it is less pronounced. The southern group reaches a 56 sq m median across 16 listings, while the west coast comes in at 42.5 sq m across 21. Inland listings show 61 sq m, but there are only eight of them in this price band, so that figure is too thin to treat as a broad island rule.

Location is not the only reason for the difference. Each area mixes older completed buildings, newer developments, varying fit-out levels and different project stages. Those characteristics can change floor area substantially within the same price bracket, so the gap should not be read as a pure “coast premium.”

The THB 8–12 million band makes that limitation clear: west and south are almost level, with median floor areas of about 66 and 68 sq m. Price, location and space do not move in a single straight line; meaningful unit comparisons still need a similar completion stage and a comparable ownership route.

Two condos at the same price can represent different choices for a foreign buyer before floor area even enters the comparison. Public listings use labels such as Foreign Quota, Thai Quota and leasehold, while many ads do not provide enough ownership evidence to classify the unit confidently. The visible market is therefore broader than the set of condos that can be treated as confirmed foreign-freehold options.

Thai law caps foreign ownership at 49% of the total floor area of units in a condominium building. At transfer, the condominium juristic person must provide evidence that foreign ownership remains within that limit. A Foreign Quota label is useful screening information, but it is not a substitute for confirming the unit documents and the building’s quota position for the actual transaction.

Leasehold belongs in a different ownership bucket from foreign freehold, and a Thai-quota or unclear listing should not be treated as an equivalent foreign-freehold option. Completion status matters as well. CBRE reported that Phuket condominium launches rose 44.8% in H1 2026 compared with H2 2025, while only three projects totalling 1,196 units were completed, so completed and still-building stock naturally sit side by side in today’s asking-price market.

For an off-plan or under-construction condo, a future completion date remains a stated target until handover is actually achieved. A developer’s “from” price is likewise not comparable with a completed-unit asking price unless it can be tied to an identifiable available condo with a known floor area and full price.