Botanica villas on the east side of the island — near Boat Lagoon and BISP international school
Botanica Majestia — villa project, Ko Kaew: entry from ~$1,141,721, from $2,126 per sqm. Beach: Bang Tao, ~13 km (the project sits on the east side, not the west coast). Both freehold and leasehold available. A managed rental program runs here — the yield is calculated per unit. Completion: off-plan, no confirmed date.
Botanica Majestia is an unusual project for the Botanica (AAP Development) brand: almost all of the developer’s other villas cluster on Phuket’s west coast (Bang Tao, Layan, Si Sunthon), while Majestia sits on the east side of the island, in Koh Kaew — near the Boat Lagoon marina (2.4 km) and BISP international school, just 300 meters away. For families whose villa choice hinges on a specific school rather than a beach, that changes the calculus: location here works for infrastructure and convenience, not resort living.
Data on the villa count in the project diverges more than usual. Villacarte lists 33 villas with 3–4 bedrooms on plots of 537–1,006 sqm and a starting price of ~$1,141,721 — the priciest entry among all the Botanica projects we’ve reviewed. Aggregator phuket.net, meanwhile, describes only 7 available villas with an identical layout (4 bedrooms, each with a private 13m pool). The most likely explanation is that phuket.net shows the current remaining unsold inventory rather than the total unit count, but this figure absolutely needs to be verified directly with the developer before a deal.
The nearest west-coast beach, Bang Tao, is about 13 km away — Majestia is not a beach project, and reaching the sea on the east side is harder given the lack of a developed beachfront in the Koh Kaew area. In exchange, the Boat Lagoon marina is close by, golf courses are 4–5 km away, and it’s 15–20 minutes to Phuket Town — an infrastructure mix geared more toward full-time living and business travel than resort rental.
The developer is the same Botanica Luxury Phuket behind dozens of villa projects on the west side: on the market since 2005, around 19 completed complexes, named “Best Phuket Developer” in 2020 and placed in the Luxury Lifestyle Awards top 100 in 2023. The track record is solid, but for this east-side location the brand has fewer completed comparables than on its usual west-coast turf.
No source we checked confirms an exact handover date — villacarte cites an average build time of about 12 months from sales launch. The stated ~6% annual yield is a developer marketing estimate; for a project in a residential/business district rather than on a tourist beach, we’d recommend treating this figure with extra caution and requesting real rental statistics for a villa of this format in Koh Kaew rather than relying on the general projection.
Who does Majestia suit? Families choosing a villa around a specific school and full-time living, more than investors targeting resort rental with high tourist occupancy. For the latter, it makes more sense to compare the project not against Botanica’s west-coast beach quarters but against other villas in the island’s eastern side — Koh Kaew and neighboring Koh Sirey — where infrastructure, not beach proximity, is the main driver of price and demand.
As an agency we work off villacarte’s current pricing, but for Botanica Majestia the first step is a direct cross-check of the number of available villas and their exact specs with the developer — the gap with phuket.net is too notable to rely on a single figure — along with a conversation about whether the east-side location genuinely fits the client’s goal (rental vs own use).
Prices and availability change; data is accurate as of the page update date. Request a fresh price list — we send it the same day. Updated: July 2026.
Our catalog currently tracks 10 projects in Ko Kaew; new-build entry level here: from ~$372,040. Botanica Majestia’s entry price is about 27% above the district median — the project sits in the upper segment of the location.
The median is calculated from the “from” prices of all catalog projects in the district and refreshes with every update.
Neighbours are picked by the same property type and the closest entry price in the same area — the projects our buyers actually shortlist against each other. Figures recalculate with every catalogue update.
| Botanica MajestiaThis project | Anchan Burgundy | The Villas Overlooking Layan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price from | from ~$1,141,721 | from ~$1,139,891 | from ~$1,139,772 |
| $/sqm | $2,126 | $1,608 | — |
| Beach | Bang Tao, ~13 km (the project sits on the east side, not the west coast) | Layan, ~5.4 km / ~10 min by car (villacarte measures from Layan; an inland site in Thep Krasattri) | Layan, ~1.6 km |
| Completion | Under constructionoff-plan, no confirmed date | Under constructionmade-to-order off-plan — construction starts after the first payment, 10–24 months (averaging ~12) | delivered in 2016 |
| Ownership | freehold and leasehold options (per villacarte only, not independently confirmed) | both freehold and leasehold available, per villacarte | freehold / leasehold |
| Rental program | yes | yes | yes |
The developer information in this listing states: freehold and leasehold options (per villacarte only, not independently confirmed). This is the project-level starting point, not a legal opinion on a particular unit. The contract, title, foreign quota and seller authority must be verified before reservation.
A foreign-quota condominium is registered in the buyer’s name. Purchase funds must enter Thailand with the correct purpose so the receiving bank can issue the foreign-exchange evidence used at the Land Office.
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From ~$1,141,721 per the primary source, villacarte — the highest entry price among the Botanica projects we’ve reviewed.
Villacarte lists 33 villas with 3–4 bedrooms. Aggregator phuket.net describes only 7 available villas — likely the current remaining inventory rather than the total unit count, but this figure should be confirmed directly.
In Koh Kaew, on the east side of Phuket — near the Boat Lagoon marina (2.4 km) and BISP international school (0.3 km). It’s the only Botanica project in our catalog not on the west coast; Bang Tao beach is about 13 km away.
Botanica (AAP Development) — a villa developer on Phuket since 2005, around 19 completed projects, named “Best Phuket Developer” in 2020.
No confirmed date. Villacarte cites an average build time of ~12 months from sales launch; we confirm the current status directly with the developer.
Koh Kaew is not a tourist beach area but more of a residential/business district with an international school and marina nearby. The developer’s stated ~6% yield is not independently confirmed; projects near the beach are better suited to a rental strategy.
Freehold and leasehold options — this information comes from villacarte only, with no independent confirmation from other sources.
No guaranteed rate is claimed: a managed rental program runs here and income follows occupancy. We calculate it for the specific unit.
Funds arrive from abroad in foreign currency and the Thai bank issues an FET form. Without it the Land Department will not register freehold to a foreigner, so we agree the amount and payment reference in advance.
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