Manick Hillsidevillas in Si Sunthon, Phuket

Manick Hillside is a hillside villa estate above Baan Manik in Si Sunthon, in the middle of Phuket, built by Manick Hillside Residential Development Phuket and handed over in the fourth quarter of 2025. Each house has its own rim-flow pool, an open-plan living area that runs out to a long covered terrace, and views across mountains, lakes and plantation greenery. The estate sits roughly a kilometre from Niran Farm Equestrian Center, in a mostly rural stretch of Si Sunthon rather than a resort strip. Access is gated, with security around the clock.

What sets the estate apart is the gap between the four-bedroom house and the six-bedroom house: the first is 765 m², the second 1450 m² — the larger is 685 m² bigger, nearly double the floor area of the smaller. There is no size in between: buy either the four-bedroom house or the six-bedroom house, and the other one is never a close match, always much smaller or much larger.

If you are going to live here

Si Sunthon is mid-island, in Thalang, rather than on the coast: the nearest schools on record, Life School Phuket and the British International School Phuket, are both around 2.7 km away, and the closest hospital is over 4 km off. There is no beach within the estate's immediate surroundings, and the developer's own material places the appeal in reaching the west-coast beaches — Bang Tao, Layan, Surin — and Thepkrasattri Road toward the airport, rather than in walking to sand. It suits a buyer who lives on Phuket rather than one chasing a beachfront address.

If you are buying to let

No rental or management programme is stated for this estate. Houses at 765 m² and 1450 m² are built for a family or an extended household, not for nightly holiday turnover, and the inland, non-beach setting works against short-stay demand. A long-stay tenancy to a resident family is the plausible route; anyone counting on nightly bookings should look at a beachfront address instead.

If you are holding for capital growth

The construction-stage gain has already been taken: the estate is complete and handed over, so there is no gap between groundbreaking and keys left to buy into. What is left is supply and scale — a project of a four-bedroom house and a six-bedroom house is closed by nature, which favours liquidity, but the developer's own track record and ownership structure are not stated anywhere in the catalogue and should be confirmed directly before treating this as a growth position.