The Estates Samui at Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui
The Estates Samui is a fourteen-villa estate inside the grounds of the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, and how the villas are owned, and what they cost to run, is to be confirmed.
Photograph, Four Seasons.
- Price
- USD 7,220,217
- Stage
- Selling
- Bedrooms
- 4
- Developer
- Minor International PCL
- Design
- Bill Bensley
We tell you what is available and arrange the introduction.
The property
The Estates Samui occupies a secluded grove above Laem Yai Bay on the north-west shoulder of Koh Samui, on the same site as the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui and reached through the hotel lobby, an estate of fourteen villas. Bill Bensley designed them. Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui was also the principal filming location for the third season of The White Lotus, whose on-screen resort is a composite of five Thai properties.
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Minor International PCL sits behind the property, at 88 The PARQ in Bangkok. Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui adjoins the villas; Four Seasons' management of the estate is to be confirmed. Four Seasons itself records the Koh Samui private residences as sold out and lists rentable residence villas at the resort, with nothing for sale directly.
Ownership is the part of this property a buyer most needs in writing. For the completed villas the structure is that the building itself may be held outright in a non-Thai buyer's name, while the land sits either in a Thai company or on a registered lease of thirty years, renewable to ninety years in total; any description of the title as simply freehold cannot be literally true for a foreign individual buying Thai land. For the three villas in the newer phase, the lease term, the company structure and the foreign-ownership position are to be confirmed.
Two markets run side by side here. Completed villas are asked at USD 7,220,217 and USD 7,821,901, and three earlier villa sales went through at THB 210,000,000, THB 225,000,000 and THB 250,000,000. Sold prices, not availability. In the newer phase, Villa 2 is asked at USD 12,500,000 and Villa 3 at USD 12,000,000. Prices in that phase are fixed in US dollars and any baht figure is a conversion at the moment of quoting, which is why dollars are given on this page and baht is not.
The Estates Samui suits a buyer who already knows the resort and wants a house on its land, rather than a buyer working through a shortlist, and who is content to have counsel establish the title structure before anything else happens. The asking prices move, the number of villas for sale at any moment moves with them, and the service charge is to be confirmed. We make an introduction here directly, and put those three questions to Minor International PCL in writing before a client travels to see anything.
- Estate size
- Fourteen villas
- Newer phase
- Three villas within the fourteen, listed off-plan; page last updated 21 May 2026
- Developer
- Minor International PCL
- Design
- Bill Bensley
- Four Seasons sales position
- Four Seasons records the Koh Samui private residences as sold out; sales run through the developer and the resale market
- Position
- Integrally part of the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui site at Laem Yai Bay, accessible through the hotel lobby
- Airport
- 30 minutes, or 20 kilometres, from Samui International Airport
- Recorded sales
- Three villas recorded as sold at THB 210,000,000 (1,014 sqm), THB 225,000,000 (946 sqm) and THB 250,000,000 (1,129 sqm). Sold prices, not availability
- Listed sizes
- Units listed at 899 to 1,059 sqm built, on land plots of 2,204 to 3,680 sqm
- Shared facilities
- Communal pool, bar and clubhouse, gym and spa, tennis court, on-site restaurants, 24-hour security and direct beach access
The homes
Named exactly as the developer or the seller's agent names them. Sizes appear only where they are published.
Villa 2
2,994 sqm built area on a 3,772 sqm land plot
A villa in the newer off-plan phase, with a carport for up to four cars and two lifts. Bedroom, bathroom and floor counts are to be confirmed.
Villa 3
2,749 sqm built area on a 5,751 sqm land plot
A villa in the newer off-plan phase, with a carport for up to three cars and two lifts. Bedroom, bathroom and floor counts are to be confirmed.
Four-bedroom villa
4 bed · 1,085 sqm
A completed villa offered on the resale market, at 1,085 sqm.
Owning it
How title works here, what is on the market, what it costs to run and what happens when you are away. Open the one that is your question.
How ownership works here
For the completed villas: the building may be owned outright in a non-Thai buyer's name, while the land is held either through a Thai company or on a registered lease of thirty years, renewable to a total of ninety years. A description of the title as simply freehold cannot be literally true for a foreign individual buying Thai land. For the three villas in the newer phase, the lease term, company structure and foreign-ownership position are to be confirmed, with Thai counsel, before any commitment.
Leasehold or freehold: which is better?
Each has its advantages, and we would not steer a buyer to one over the other in the abstract. Freehold is title in perpetuity: the home is yours outright, it passes to your heirs without a clock on it, and it is the simpler asset to finance and to sell to the widest pool of buyers. Leasehold is normally structured to 90 years, as a 30-year registered term with two further 30-year terms written into the contract in Thailand, or as a 99-year term in markets such as Singapore, and it is the route to a villa on its own land where the law keeps freehold land in local hands. On resale a lease is assigned rather than a title transferred, which in Thailand means a fraction of the transfer fees and taxes a freehold sale attracts, and a well-run branded estate keeps its resale value on the strength of the operator and the address rather than the tenure. What matters is the specific home: the years left on the term, how the renewals are secured, and what the purchase pack says about assignment. We put those three questions to the developer or the seller's side before any offer, and we tell you what comes back.
What is available now
Completed villas are asked at USD 7,220,217 and USD 7,821,901. In the newer phase, Villa 2 is asked at USD 12,500,000 and Villa 3 at USD 12,000,000, with the rest of that phase priced on request. The number of villas for sale moves before quoting.
What it costs to run
The service charge, common-area fee and sinking fund for The Estates Samui are to be confirmed; the figures in circulation sit on a stale off-plan payment schedule and we do not use them.
Who is behind it
Developer
Minor International PCL
Architecture and interiors
Bill Bensley
The hotel on site
Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui
Completion
The built villas have been occupied for some years; the newer phase targets the end of 2026. A target rather than a delivery date, to be confirmed against construction progress.
Where it is
Koh Samui, Thailand.
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