A coast with a timetable

Sichon is a more interesting case, and the honest version needs the caveats stated as plainly as the claims.

The airport

Nakhon Si Thammarat has a new terminal built for up to four million passengers a year, against 2024 traffic of about 1.04 million.

What that does not yet mean: there is no scheduled international service, and the 2,100-metre runway limits the airport to narrowbody aircraft of around 180 seats. An extension to 2,600 metres is in the programme, which is what would open genuine regional routes. The capacity has been built ahead of the demand — which is the normal order, but it is not the same as the demand having arrived.

The bridge

A road bridge and expressway connecting Koh Samui to the mainland has been through public hearings, at a cost put at 74.044 billion baht in the Expressway Authority's final study presented in February 2026. The mainland landfall is at Thong Nian in Khanom, the district immediately north of Sichon.

The caveats matter more than the headline. The scheme has not reached Cabinet. Reported construction starts have moved between 2028 and 2029, and opening between 2033 and 2034. Treat any date with the scepticism a Thai megaproject timetable deserves.

The point is not the opening year. It is that a corridor of that scale, landing in the next district, is why brokerage research has begun treating Sichon–Khanom as one market rather than as two quiet districts.

The islands are not standing still

It would be easy, and wrong, to argue that the islands are full and therefore demand must come here.

Samui handled 3.02 million passengers in 2025 and begins an airport improvement project in the second quarter of 2026 that takes design capacity to around six million by 2027. Its runway remains 2,100 metres and its boundary is fixed, so there is a ceiling — but it is higher than it was, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.

Nationally, Thai arrivals fell 7.23 per cent in 2025, to 32.97 million, and the first quarter of 2026 was down again. The honest version of the demand argument is narrower and stronger: Samui specifically grew about nine per cent in early 2025, the island's land is finite and expensive, and mainland coast opposite it is neither.

The brands have arrived

Banyan Tree Residences Sichon broke ground in February 2025 — the province's first internationally branded residences. Around fifteen villas, developed by Urasaya Property, with Banyan Group licensing the brand and providing management. Published entry prices are from 65 million baht for a two-storey ocean-view villa and from 85 million for a single-storey beachfront.

One does not have to admire the scheme to read the signal. Capital of that kind does not commit to a coast it expects to stay empty, and a brand of that standing does not lend its name to one.

What is available

We hold 241 rai directly on this coast — a single contiguous parcel assembled across 33 Chanote freehold titles, with 1,014 metres of continuous, titled Gulf frontage, two road access points, and flat, buildable land under mature coconut palms.

Independent legal due diligence is complete, an international owner's title insurance policy is in place, and topographic and environmental surveys have been done. The whole frontage is under one ownership, which means a single master plan rather than an assembly of fragmented plots — the thing that is almost impossible to find on a developed coast.

It is offered on registered lease of up to thirty years. A joint venture is possible, and we will build to your brief. Title copies, surveys, appraisal and studies are shared under NDA with qualified parties.

General information as at September 2026. Not legal, tax or investment advice. Confirm everything with independent Thai counsel before committing.