Buying property in Bophut–Fisherman’s Village, Koh Samui, ThailandBophut sits where most of Samui's new homes are being built.

An environmental protection notice for Surat Thani province took effect on 22 May 2025 for five years. It covers Bo Phut subdistrict, which contains Fisherman's Village.

The law firm Lex Bangkok reports that the notice sorts land on Koh Samui by height above sea level: below 80 metres, 80 to 140 metres, and above 140 metres, where a building may be no taller than 6 metres. On land with a slope of 35% or more, it reports that only single detached houses may be built, up to 6 metres high, covering no more than 90 square metres of ground on larger plots and 70 on smaller ones.

It also reports that a hotel or apartment building within 50 metres of the shoreline needs a full environmental impact assessment, whatever its size. The zoning of individual plots here has not been verified.

From: Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning; Lex Bangkok (law firm's reading of the notice)

Letting a property for less than 30 days at a time can be treated as a hotel business under Thailand's Hotel Act, which normally requires a hotel licence. A simpler registration exists only for premises with no more than 8 guest rooms and no more than 30 guests at a time.

C9 Hotelworks, an independent analyst, reports that the number of rental villas across Koh Samui grew 34% in the year to January 2025. That figure is for the whole island, not for Fisherman's Village.

No achieved rents or owner running costs are held for the village, so no rental return can be stated.

From: FRANK Legal & Tax; C9 Hotelworks, published by Hospitality Net

ThinkHazard, published by GFDRR and the World Bank, rates coastal flooding for Ko Samui District as High. That means potentially damaging waves are expected to flood the coast at least once in the next 10 years.

It also rates landslide and cyclone hazard as High. Tsunami and urban flood are rated Low, and river flood Very low.

This area is the Fisherman's Village beachfront and the residential hills directly behind it, so both the coastal and the landslide rating apply to homes here. Neither rating is specific to the village.

From: GFDRR / World Bank, ThinkHazard

Rain at the Ko Samui weather station peaks in November at 489.6 mm, with 290.2 mm in October and 209.1 mm in December. February to April is the driest period, at 57.8 to 77.8 mm a month. Average daytime highs run from 29.0 °C in January to 32.6 °C in May.

Samui International Airport is in Bo Phut subdistrict, the same subdistrict as the village. The district's state hospital, Koh Samui Hospital, is in Ang Thong subdistrict.

Ban Bo Phut School, a state primary school, is in Bo Phut subdistrict.

From: World Meteorological Organization; Samui International Airport; Ministry of Public Health; Ban Bo Phut School

These figures are for Koh Samui as a whole, not for Fisherman's Village. C9 Hotelworks surveyed 2,882 developer-owned homes for sale across 117 projects in June 2025: 1,513 apartments and 1,369 houses and villas.

It placed 2,030 of them, in 66 projects, in its Bo Phut area, which also takes in Chaweng Beach and the land around the airport. That is 70% of the island's new homes on offer.

The median (middle) asking price of an apartment was THB 88,500 a square metre, and THB 3.5 million for a one-bedroom apartment of 40 to 70 square metres. These are prices offered by developers, not confirmed sale prices.

From: C9 Hotelworks, June 2025. An independent analyst, not a government figure.