Guides
Thailand beachfront, explained for foreign buyers.
Everything a foreign individual, family or company needs to know about holding beachfront land in Thailand for the long term, building on it, running a business from it, and living here.
Leasing in Thailand
The structures we offer: the registered lease of up to 30 years, superficies for your buildings, joint ventures at Sichon, registration costs, and the questions on renewal, EIA, fees and assignment.
Read the pageThe 30-year lease
Why foreigners lease rather than buy, what the Land Office registers, what it costs, how renewals really work, and how to protect a 30-year position.
Read the guideBuild a villa on leased land
Owning the house you build, permits and coastal setbacks, realistic build costs per square metre, timelines, and living here part of the year.
Read the guideStart a beach business
Beach club, restaurant, retreat or boutique hotel: company set-up, licences, staff and work permits, seasons, and what a ten-year lease can pay back.
Read the guideLiving in Thailand
Long-stay visas, tax residency and remittance rules, inheritance, healthcare, schools and flights for international owners.
Read the guideWhy lease, not buy
What foreigners can and cannot hold, why nominee companies are a mistake, and why the lease is the better deal.
Read the guideComparisons and practicalities
The shorter reads.
What leasing costs
Rent structures, the 1% registration fee, taxes, legal fees, a worked example and the rai-to-square-metre glossary.
ReadSichon vs Koh Samui
Land, airports, cost, rules and brands compared for a resort developer choosing between the island and the mainland coast opposite.
ReadNatai Beach vs Phuket
Same airport, different beach: what an operator gets on each side of the Sarasin Bridge.
ReadA beach club site at Natai
The operator's page for the 7.7-rai plot: what fits, capital, season, payback and the honest part.
ReadFor brokers and advisors
How to register an introduction, protection, fee basis and what we provide.
ReadWhere in Thailand are we
Maps of both sites and what surrounds them: airports, islands, neighbours, towns, hospitals and seasons.
ReadThis coast
Sichon, and what it is like.
The quiet coast
A district of eighty-two thousand people at a hundred and sixteen to the square kilometre, and why a mainland coast differs from an island.
ReadRoom to breathe
The arithmetic of a crowded island, what it costs an owner, and why continuity of title is the whole argument.
ReadLiving at Sichon
Hospital, schools, shops, flights and the season, with the three things that are genuinely harder here.
ReadRetiring on the LTR visa
Ten years, an exemption from Thai tax on foreign income remitted, and how a registered lease counts toward the threshold.
ReadA coast with a timetable
The airport, the bridge and what is being built, with the caveats stated as plainly as the claims.
ReadWe will build it
Lease and build yourself, lease and we build to your brief, or develop it together.
ReadThese guides are general information as at September 2026, not legal, tax or investment advice. Rules change; confirm everything with independent Thai counsel before committing.
The properties
Two places to do it.
Sichon Beach
Long-term registered lease of up to 30 years. Room for a resort, branded villas, or a private estate on part of the holding.
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Natai Beach
Ten-year lease with the first year rent-free if you build. Made for a beach club, restaurant, small retreat or boutique stay near Phuket.
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