Reasons that make Phuket an attractive location for your permanent base, holiday home or place to spend your retirement.

Thailand’s biggest island, Phuket, lies off the country’s southwest coast. This attractive location offers a relaxing pace of life and an extensive array of reasons to buy that Phuket property as your holiday home.

Your Phuket property is located on Asia’s premier resort island with amazing natural beauty including idyllic beaches, amazing diving, first-class hotels, spas, magnificent golf courses, yacht marinas, and a plethora of fine restaurants, vibrant nightlife, and excellent shopping.

Phuket has one of the fastest growing property markets in the world with an increasing number of high quality projects by internationally-renowned real estate developers. Environmentally-friendly planning laws and height restrictions ensure that developments are low key and low density. Such regulations help add value to the real estate across the island and imply a Phuket property is an investment that will appreciate in value.

Phuket is Thailand’s wealthiest province and also the jewel in the crown of Thailand’s tourism industry, therefore receiving a high degree of protection and investment from the central government in Bangkok, once again such regulations work to add value to your Phuket property.

The cost of living in Phuket is very low compared to Europe or other premier resort destinations. Likewise for building costs – a Phuket property is built at only half the price of a similar property in matured markets like – Gold Coast in Australia and the Bay Area in San Francisco. In an article titled Paradise Found: Where to Retire Abroad Fortune magazine recently named Phuket as one of the top five places to retire to, “where you can still live like a king on your savings”.

Phuket’s appeal is so strong that it was one of the only places in Asia that was unaffected by the Asian economic crisis during the late 1990s. Property values also remained strong even after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The market has shown remarkable resistance to the adverse effects of disaster, reflecting a sound choice on the part of those who invests in a Phuket property.

Rental returns on apartments and villas continue to remain high as more and more holidaymakers are opting for the privacy of a rental property over a hotel room. With visitor arrivals predicted to top 6 million in 2008, the demand for holiday rentals will continue to grow. If your Phuket property is part of a rental pool, you will benefit form this rising demand.

Infrastructure and services continue to improve at a fast pace. With two international standard hospitals on the island; quality healthcare is available at a fraction of the cost in the West, thus adding to the attractiveness of your Phuket property

English language primary and secondary education is available on the island with international schools that follow the British or American curriculum, including the British Curriculum International School, formerly Dulwich International College.