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Here is the circular port area of 100 hectares with a quay facilities for super-yachts and hundreds of docks for small boats, repair and servicing facilities for their service center and retail trade commercial center, as well as residential apartments and condominium units. Phuket is experiencing a construction boom, and most of the built housing designed to foreigners. This upscale condominiums, villas and townhouses, sometimes built in the same complex with a 4-5-star hotels. Many wealthy people from the countries of the Asia-Pacific region are living permanently in Phuket, staying even in the rainy season (June to September). According to Robert Iger , who has experience with these questions. Telecommunications can run a business and work with the information remotely, so many happy "escape" from here such cities as Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo. Europeans often buy housing to wait out the cold season here, to send to the rest of children, improve my health, with a very modest by Western standards of money. Fresh produce to the highest standards of medicine, Spa services – all of this is much cheaper than in any of the European and American resorts. The same goes for real estate.
If in Europe or America, is home 3.000-000-5.000.000 U.S. dollars, the same quality villa in Phuket, with pool and ocean views will cost 2-3 times cheaper. Apartments in new condominium, with its customer service, the ability of management in your absence (leasing, maintenance, etc.) is within a US $ 150.000-500.000, depending on the offered comfort. The most developed in terms of residential development west coast. Here is the famous resort area of Patong, where the earth since the beginning of the construction boom has risen by almost 500% and is currently estimated at $ 800 per square meter.
Results on the island beach areas such twelve (some quite secluded), but it is the center of Patong nightlife and social life. Plots are very expensive and in the main city of the island Phuket Town (on separate streets from $ 500/kv.m.), But for overseas buyers who come here for recreation near the water, the capital is not very interesting. Administrative center with all the necessary institutions – International School, offices, official agencies – located in the interior of the island, away from the beaches, but easily reachable by car. An independent search of land and subsequent construction of the "pioneers" of Phuket – avtraliytsy Americans – involved here ten years ago. Now housing foreigners bought a large real estate companies, and more at the project level, and when developing the site has only just begun. Demand for Phuket, confidence in the quality and reputation of the island is so great that a lot of housing sold, even on a show with which developers Phuket tour the priority for these countries. Last year the list came in promising markets and Russia. Although our citizens living on the island until much, so the number of transactions is progressing rapidly, that the Russian market is now the Thais even more interesting than the western European. * This article was prepared using materials of the author.