Beachfront Property in Hua Hin: Where It Is, What It Costs

We list 120 homes for sale on the coast around Hua Hin that carry our beachfront tag, and another 49 that carry only the near-beach tag. Beachfront is the most expensive word in a coastal listing, and on this coast it describes quite different things: an apartment block on the Cha-Am shore, a building at the foot of the Khao Takiab headland, a low-rise development behind the fishing-village bay at Khao Tao. What follows walks the shore from north to south and names the buildings on the sand.

Across all 120, asking prices run from 2.6M THB for a 38 sqm one-bedroom at Lumpini Park Beach in Cha-Am (HC418 and HC419, both listed in October 2026) to 57.99M THB for a three-bedroom at InterContinental Residences in the town centre. The median asking price is 11M THB, and the median price per square metre is 104,701 THB. Nearly all of it is apartments: beachfront houses can be counted on one hand, and we list no plot of land on the sand at all.

What counts as beachfront, and what is only near the beach?

On our listings a home counts as beachfront when it carries "Beachfront Property" or "View: Beachfront" among its features, which is how we arrive at 120. "Near Beach" is a separate, wider tag: 166 homes carry it, 117 of those are also beachfront, and the other 49 are near the beach only, made up of 37 condos, ten houses and villas, and two plots of land; our comparison of Autumn, Sanctuary, Summer and Seacraze prices four of those near-beach buildings unit by unit. In principle a beachfront building has nothing between its own land and the sand, so you walk from the pool deck to the water, while a near-beach home has a road, other buildings or a short walk in between.

The "Beach Properties" search in our menu sits between the two: the feature it filters on is carried by 154 homes for sale, all 120 beachfront ones and 34 of the 49 that are only near the beach, so the other 15 never appear in it. That helps when browsing and misleads when counting. Every count and price here covers homes listed only for sale, leaving out nine beachfront condos also offered for rent. Our August article on what beachfront means in Thailand sets out the vocabulary in full, and our page on sea-view villas and condos in Hua Hin covers homes that look at the water without touching it.

Which stretches of coast have true beachfront property?

There are four, and they are not interchangeable. The northern corridor runs from Cha-Am, a separate town in Phetchaburi province, south towards Hua Hin past the airport, lined with apartment buildings and condotels facing the sea. The town beach runs in front of Hua Hin itself, within walking distance of the night market, and holds the most expensive beachfront apartments we list. Khao Takiab is the headland at the southern end of that beach, and Khao Tao, which a travel guide to Khao Tao beach puts about 14 km south of Hua Hin, is a quieter bay beside a working fishing village. Further south, in Pran Buri proper and Sam Roi Yot, we currently list nothing tagged beachfront: every Pran Buri listing in our beachfront set is at Khao Tao. That describes our stock, not the coastline.

The sand itself is not a fixed asset. In November 2025 Hua Hin Today reported that the Marine Department was preparing to allocate more than 249 million baht to add sand to Cha-Am’s beach, beginning with an 800-metre stretch and widening it by 50 to 80 metres. That is a good reason to see any stretch at high tide before you commit.

Beachfront condos: which buildings sit on the sand?

Of the 120, 116 are condominiums, with a median asking price of 10.795M THB, and each stretch has a page that prices them unit by unit. In the northern corridor, Sandy Beach, Cha-am Grand Condotel, Cliff & Beach and Springfield Beach all face the sea, and our building-by-building comparison of Cha-Am’s beach condos sets their units side by side. Our Cha-Am listings add Baan Thew Talay Aquamarine, Baan Chaan Talay, Beach Palace and Baan Ruen Rom. The Boathouse is the unusual address on this corridor, because it sells beachfront townhouses as well as apartments behind the same sand.

In town, InterContinental Residences and Baan San Ploen are the buildings on the sand. Baan Sandao, Mykonos and Baan Pakarang Sisom also carry our beachfront tag and are counted in the 120, but the first two are entered from Petchkasem Road, Baan Sandao reaching the sand by its own walkway, and Pakarang’s beachfront position is not confirmed; our comparison of Hua Hin’s town-centre beach condos sets out what is known of each. Palm Pavilion, a 1999 building tagged both beachfront and sea view, is where we list a 108 sqm two-bedroom with a sea view. At Khao Takiab, Veranda Residence sits directly on the sand at the foot of the headland, while Amari Residences, on the road to Khao Takiab, is a lesson in the tags: every Amari unit we list for sale is marked near the beach, not beachfront. At Khao Tao, Las Tortugas, Malibu Khao Tao and Santipura Residences are the beach buildings, priced in our guide to Khao Tao’s beach condos and pool villas, and Wan Vayla has a guide of its own.

Of the 116 beachfront condos, 22 are recorded as Foreign Quota, one, HC417 at Baan Chaan Talay, as Thai Quota, and 93 as Thai/Foreign Quota, which means the listing does not confirm a foreign-quota transfer: the unit can pass into a foreign name only while the building still has foreign quota to give. Foreigners may own up to 49 per cent of a condominium’s floor area, a cap our guide to new condos in Hua Hin explains, and beach buildings tend to use that allowance up first. Ask for written confirmation of the remaining quota before you fall for a view.

Beachfront houses and villas: do they exist, and at what price?

Barely. Our beachfront band for houses and villas holds five listings, from 11M THB to 40M THB, but two of the five are not houses on the sand. HC177 is a 150 sqm condominium with its own pool at Veranda Residence that also carries the villa type, and HV354 is a four-bedroom pool villa at Khao Tao whose own title describes it as near the beach. That leaves three.

Two are townhouses at The Boathouse, both built in 2008 with 192 sqm of living space: HH111, a two-bedroom beachfront townhouse at 11M THB on a 236 sqm plot, and HH110, a three-bedroom beachfront townhouse at 13.5M THB on 284 sqm. The third is HV116, a three-bedroom villa at Boulevard Tuscany in Cha-Am, 275 sqm with a private pool, at 40M THB. All three are recorded as Thai ownership on a Chanote title, and in practice the land under a house cannot go into a foreigner’s name, however close it sits to the water. If a garden and a pool matter more than the sand, the near-beach tag adds ten houses and villas, though the beach search leaves out nine of them. Our guide to buying a villa in Hua Hin as a foreigner covers the ownership routes that apply to all of them.

Can a foreigner buy beachfront land?

In practice, no, and we have none to sell. Thai law does not let a foreigner own land in their own name, apart from a rarely granted route in section 96 bis of the Land Code: an investment of at least 40M THB can bring up to one rai for a residence, with the Interior Minister’s approval. The beach and the foreshore are public land, so a title plan usually stops short of the water. No land listing of ours carries the beachfront tag, and only two carry the near-beach one: HL122, a 1,200 sqm Chanote plot in Cha-Am near Springfield Beach at 10.5M THB, and 16000003, 16,000 sqm in the Dolphin Bay area of Sam Roi Yot at 15M THB on a Nor Sor 3 Gor title, both purchases for a Thai buyer. Our guide to buying land in Hua Hin sets out title deeds and prices per rai.

What does beachfront cost to own and maintain?

The purchase price is the smaller surprise. Common area fees on our beachfront condos run from 19 THB per square metre a month at Chukamol to 130 THB at InterContinental Residences, and the median is 50 THB. At the median a 100 sqm apartment costs 5,000 THB a month before anything is switched on, and our guide to common area fees in Thailand explains what that buys.

Then there is salt, which no listing mentions. Air-conditioning condensers, balcony railings, window hardware and lift machinery all wear faster on the sand than a few streets inland, and our Veranda Residence guide sets out how to budget for it. Ask the juristic person for three years of accounts and the date the seaward façade was last repainted, because on a beach building a fee that has not moved for years usually means deferred work. If you plan to let, our guide to rental income in Hua Hin sets those costs against what a condo earns.

How do you test a "beachfront" claim before you view?

Start with the listing’s tag and title; a title that says "near beach" tells you more than any tag, as HV354 shows. Our August guide to what beachfront means sets out the satellite and title-plan check that shows what fills the gap between building and sand. Then visit at high tide, in the wet season if you can: on a coast where the state is preparing to pay for new sand, a February photograph and an October walk can show two different beaches. If one of our listings fails any of these tests, tell us, because the tag is ours to correct.

This page is general information about the market and the law, not legal advice. Before you pay a deposit on any beachfront property, have an independent Thai lawyer check the title, the quota and the ownership structure.

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See what is on the sand today

Our beach search lists every home for sale that carries our Beach Property feature: all of the beachfront homes and some that are only near the beach, so check the tag and the title on each listing before you shortlist it. The condo search shows every apartment for sale from Cha-Am to Sam Roi Yot.

On the shore itself the risks are erosion and storm waves rather than rising floodwater; our guide to Hua Hin flood risk sets out the record and compares the town with Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya and Koh Samui.