Property for sale in Lamai, Koh Samui

Lamai is Koh Samui’s second beach town, on the east coast south of Chaweng. Its bay is long and wide, with the Hin Ta and Hin Yai rock formations at its southern end, and behind it sits a village that has kept a genuinely local character alongside its international residents: markets, gyms and training camps, cafés and a busy walking street.

For people living on the island year-round, Lamai is often the practical choice. Supermarkets, schools and clinics are close, Chaweng is about twenty minutes away and the airport around half an hour. The hills that rise behind the village give many homes sea views without the price of a beachfront plot.

The property we present in Lamai is varied. There are boutique developments of three-bedroom pool villas on the hillside, an apartment project a short walk from the beach offering foreign freehold within the condominium quota, sea-view plots with villas to be built, and, unusually, an operating beachfront resort offered as a whole.

Ownership differs from project to project here, from registered leases to condominium freehold. Each listing sets out the structure, the fees and what the seller has and has not yet confirmed.