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Map guides · Episode 1
Thailand, seen from above
Six destinations compared on the same criteria: price, supply, villa or apartment, new builds, the sea. Scroll: the columns change, the map stays.
Survey of 19 October 2026 · asking prices, median per development
Each dot is a development we track; its colour is its median asking price per square metre.
30,000 ฿/m²180,000 ฿/m² and above
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1 of 7 · Approach
Six destinations, six ways of living in Thailand
From up here, Thailand is a single name. On the ground, six markets that look nothing alike. The same eye on each: what it costs, what it offers, the life it proposes.
A square metre in Phuket costs 2.3 times one in Chiang Mai
Each column stands as tall as its destination's median asking price per m², on a single scale. The islands and the capital at the top, Hua Hin and Chiang Mai at the bottom; Bangkok, at 73,650 ฿ (€1,919), stays below Phuket.
Asking prices, median per development then median of developments; a destination median mixes condominiums and villas.
Reflexion survey of 19 October 2026
3 of 7 · Supply
Bangkok offers 21 times more choice than Koh Samui
Height shows the number of units for sale: the capital first, then Phuket (21,651) and Pattaya (13,903). On Samui, choice comes down to a few hundred developments: you choose your developer as much as your house.
Height shows the share of villas among developments: 86% on Samui, 72% in Hua Hin, 37% in Bangkok. The same budget does not buy the same life: a high floor with a view in town, a garden on the islands.
Height shows the share of developments sold before completion: 53% on Samui, 23% in Phuket, 7% in Bangkok. Buying off plan means judging a developer on what it has already delivered.
The beach is closer on Samui and in Pattaya than in Phuket
Height shows the share of developments 1,000 m or less from a beach: 43% on Samui, 39% in Pattaya, 32% in Phuket, 24% in Hua Hin. Bangkok and Chiang Mai have no column: no beach.
The city and choice: Bangkok. The beach and the villa: Phuket and Samui. Weekends two hours from the capital: Hua Hin and Pattaya. Budget and mountains: Chiang Mai.
Median asking prices per m². Profiles, not advice: every address must be checked.
Reflexion survey of 19 October 2026
Your plans begin here
City or coast, apartment or villa, to live there or to spend part of the year: three gestures are enough for your advisor to start from your project, not from a catalogue.
Prices are asking prices, surveyed on 19 October 2026 in our database. For each development we take the median price per square metre of its unsold units; for an area, the median of those medians, shown only from 20 developments upward. A unit is set aside as an outlier below 10,000 ฿/m², above 1,000,000 ฿/m², above 500,000 ฿/m² on less than 30 m² or with no known floor area, above 500 M ฿, or with less than 10 m² per bedroom. The off-plan share counts developments whose status is known. Distances are measured as the crow flies. Euros are converted at €1 = 38.374 ฿ (13 September 2026).
Across the six destinations, 357 units were set aside at this survey.
These are listing prices, not sale prices. No figure on this page is a promise of return.
This page is market information, not legal, tax or financial advice. The rules quoted are dated; check that they still apply with a professional before any decision.