Angsana Golf Residences Topaz from the air, three curved low-rise buildings above the fairways of Laguna Golf Phuket with the lagoons and the interior mountains behind them, the inland half of the Laguna Phuket estate
Render: Angsana Golf Residences Topaz, Laguna Phuket. Banyan Group
The Coast23 September 20268 min read

Living inside Laguna: the lake, the golf course and Lakelands

Most of Laguna Phuket is not on the sand. It is on the lagoons a tin mine left behind, above an 18-hole course, and out in the Lakelands masterplan next door. The smallest homes on the estate are there, and so is the shuttle, the retail, the clinic and the kindergarten a household actually uses.

The freshwater half of Laguna Phuket is the estate’s entry point: the lagoon system left behind by a worked-out tin mine, the 18-hole golf course above it, and the Lakelands masterplan beyond. Of the 20 residential projects Banyan Group sells on this estate, 1 is absolute beachfront and 10 front the water inland. The smallest homes on the whole estate are here, and so is everything a household actually uses on a Tuesday.

10
projects front the lagoonscounted from our register
3
sit above the golf course
1
is absolute beachfront
18
holes at Laguna Golf Phuketin play, not planned

Beach, or the water behind it

The estate’s own register, counted as this page loads. The inland water is where most of it is.

  • 10 lagoon-front projects
  • 3 golf-side projects
  • 1 absolute beachfront
Laguna Phuket's 20 residential projects by setting. A project can hold more than one setting, so these do not add to the total; the register states every project's own.

The four addresses on the water and the fairways

AddressWhat it isSizes, as the developer states them
Laguna Lake Residences AsterLakeside apartments, rooftop skypools, the estate’s retail a short walk away1, 2 and 3 bedrooms, 55 to 113 sqm
Bellaguna Lake Residences LotusLagoon outlook, adjacent to the beach. Penthouses carry pools on the roof1 to 3 bedrooms and penthouses, 75 to 412 sqm
Bellaguna Golf ResidencesFive low-rise buildings over Laguna Golf Phuket and the lagoons1 to 3 bedrooms and penthouses, from 55 sqm
Angsana Golf Residences TopazThree curved low-rise buildings, a ring-shaped rooftop pool, unveiled 13 February 20262 and 3 bedrooms and penthouses, 121 to 408 sqm
Read the full explanation

Asteris the smallest format in the Lakelands masterplan and the most useful one to understand first. What Banyan emphasises about it is not the water but the walk: the estate’s lifestyle and retail are a short walk away, which on Phuket is unusual enough to be the selling point. Read one line carefully. Aster carries no golf membership in the developer’s own description, where several of its neighbours do, and we do not add one from a sister address.

Lotusis the first named address in the Bellaguna Lake series, on the brand Banyan Group launched in 2025 for year-round residency and operates apart from its hotel inventory. Its 75 to 412 square metre band is the widest of any Bellaguna address, which matters more than it sounds: a one-bedroom apartment and a 412-square-metre penthouse are not the same purchase and will not have the same resale audience. Golf membership is included with selected units, on the developer’s terms.

Bellaguna Golf Residences is five finger-shaped low-rise buildings overlooking the championship course and the lagoons, launched in July 2025 as Laguna Golf Residences Hibiscus and renamed when the Bellaguna brand arrived in December 2025. Show units opened in June 2026. A second name, Pentas, circulates for it and appears on no developer page we have read, so we treat it as unconfirmed rather than printing it as a building.

Topazis the newest of the four, unveiled on 13 February 2026. Three curved low-rise buildings rather than a tower, positioned so the outlook divides between the golf course, the interior mountains and the Andaman Sea, with a ring-shaped rooftop pool that is the reason the buildings curve. Ground-floor homes carry garden access, penthouses carry private rooftop pools, and every residence has its own terrace. Golf membership is included on the developer’s stated terms.

Where an entry actually starts

The smallest published formats on the estate, all of them inland. No price appears on this site until the developer clears one.

Standing today

Skypark Celeste

Studio, one and two-bedroom homes over the golf course, delivered furnished, with a rooftop infinity pool, sky bridges and a sky jogging track. The developer lists it as complete, and holds August 2026 photography of it.

Skypark Elara

Three seven-storey blocks at Lakelands overlooking the lagoons, from 54 sqm, with around 220 units in phase one on the developer's own figure.

Laguna Lake Residences Aster

From 55 sqm, one to three bedrooms, the shortest walk to the estate's retail.

Laguna Lakelands Waterside

One to three-bedroom lake-view apartments in four and seven-storey blocks, a 60-metre rooftop pool, private pools on selected homes. Launched as Lakeview Residences, which is still the name on the page title.

The living pavilion of a Lakelands Waterfront Villa at Laguna Phuket opening onto its private pool and the lagoon beyond, on the freshwater side of the estate
Lakelands Waterfront Villas, on the lagoon rather than the sea: 558 square metres built-up on plots of 675 to 735 square metres. Photo: Banyan Group

A Tuesday on the estate

What a household here actually uses, all of it operating today.

The inter-resort shuttle

A free service between the hotels, the golf course, the beach and Canal Village. It is the reason a home on the lagoon is not a car-dependent home.

Canal Village

The estate's own retail, inside the gates. Boat Avenue and Porto de Phuket sit immediately outside them.

Laguna Golf Phuket

An 18-hole course in play rather than planned. Several of the addresses above include membership on the developer's stated terms; Aster does not.

A 24-hour clinic

BDMS Wellness Clinic Laguna Phuket, on the estate. On an island where the nearest hospital is a real consideration, this is the amenity easiest to ignore and hardest to replace.

Schools

SILK international kindergarten is on the estate. Phuket reached 18 international schools and 5,075 students from more than 50 nationalities by August 2026, after 51 per cent growth in three years.

The beach clubs

RAVA Beach Club on the beach row, carried by owners under the developer's 2026 owner schedule. The shuttle is how an inland address reaches it.

Lakelands is a different scale

Not another building. A masterplan next door to the estate, and the numbers the developer publishes for it have moved.

What Banyan has published about Lakelands, and what it has not

Banyan Group announced Laguna Lakelands on 8 February 2024 as a community of one million square metres, 700 rai, adjacent to Laguna Phuket, arranged in five themed residential areas it named Hillside, Orchard, Forest, Lakeside and Lagoon, and described it as Phuket’s largest private residential community. That release said up to 5,000 residences were expected over the next five to ten years. An awards release of 12 June 2026 says up to 6,000 homes across five themed precincts. We print both with their dates rather than choosing one, because the developer has not reconciled them and we cannot.

The Lakelands site itself lists 15 kilometres of walkways and cycling trails, a town centre with shops, spas and restaurants, access to the Laguna Beach Club and to what it calls Phuket’s first Community Club, membership of RAVA Beach Club, electric-vehicle charging points and an organic farm. Much of that material is presented on the developer’s own pages as an artist’s impression, which is the difference between Lakelands and the estate beside it: Laguna Phuket can be walked, and Lakelands is largely still a drawing.

Two addresses in our register sit inside it with pages of their own. Lakelands Waterfront Villas is the house format and the only address on the estate where Banyan uses the word waterfront without qualification: four-bedroom pool villas of 558 square metres built-up on plots of 675 to 735 square metres, with golf membership included on the developer’s terms. A 558-square-metre house on a 675-square-metre plot is a house that fills its land, which buys interior volume and costs garden, so ask to see the site plan before the show villa. Laguna Lakelands itself is the masterplan record, and it is mixed by format, which is why it has no single answer on ownership.

What is not published

  • Unit counts and completion dates for most of these addresses. Banyan publishes neither in the documents we hold, so neither appears on their pages.
  • Service charges and sinking funds. Not published for any address on this estate. Ask per unit, in writing.
  • Ownership, on most of them.For the Lakelands condominiums the developer’s own guide of 4 June 2026 states freehold title within the 49 per cent foreign quota or a registered lease. Elsewhere our register reads confirming, which means we have not read the papers and will not print one of two plausible answers. The whole question is in leasehold or freehold in Phuket.
  • Build state, for most of them. 3 of the 20 projects are established as standing and walkable. A sales status such as selling says nothing about whether a building exists.

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Common questions

Where can I buy at Laguna Phuket without paying beachfront prices?

On the inland half of the estate, and it is most of it. Our own register holds one absolute beachfront project at Laguna Phuket; the great majority of the rest front the lagoons the tin mine left behind or sit above the 18-hole Laguna Golf Phuket course. The smallest published formats on the whole estate are there: a studio at Skypark Celeste, from 54 square metres at Skypark Elara, from 55 square metres at Laguna Lake Residences Aster and at Bellaguna Golf Residences. We publish no price for any of them, because Banyan Group has cleared none.

Which Laguna Phuket projects are on the lake?

The two that carry the word in their names are Laguna Lake Residences Aster, one to three-bedroom apartments of 55 to 113 square metres with rooftop skypools, and Bellaguna Lake Residences Lotus, one to three bedrooms and penthouses of 75 to 412 square metres with pools on the penthouse roofs. Several more front the lagoon without saying so in the name, including Lakelands Waterfront Villas, Laguna Lakelands Waterside Residences and Skypark Elara. The register on the estate page counts them as the page loads and states every project's setting, because beachfront is the word this market abuses most.

Which Laguna Phuket projects are on the golf course?

Three sit above the fairways of Laguna Golf Phuket. Bellaguna Golf Residences is five finger-shaped low-rise buildings overlooking the course and the lagoons, launched in July 2025 as Laguna Golf Residences Hibiscus and renamed when the Bellaguna brand arrived in December 2025, with show units open from June 2026. Angsana Golf Residences Topaz, unveiled on 13 February 2026, is three curved low-rise buildings of 121 to 408 square metres with a ring-shaped rooftop pool. Skypark Celeste overlooks the course as well, and the developer lists it as complete.

Is golf membership included with a Laguna Phuket residence?

It depends on the address, and we state it only where the developer does. Banyan states that membership at Laguna Golf Phuket is included at Angsana Golf Residences Topaz and at Lakelands Waterfront Villas on its own terms, and included with selected units at Bellaguna Lake Residences Lotus. Laguna Lake Residences Aster carries no golf membership in the developer's own description, where several of its neighbours do, and we do not add one from a sister address, because a benefit assumed from a neighbour is exactly what turns into a disappointed buyer at contract stage. Confirm it in writing for the specific unit.

What is Laguna Lakelands?

A Banyan Group masterplan adjacent to Laguna Phuket rather than a building inside it. The developer announced it on 8 February 2024 as one million square metres, 700 rai, in five themed residential areas it named Hillside, Orchard, Forest, Lakeside and Lagoon, describing it as Phuket's largest private residential community, and said up to 5,000 residences were expected over the following five to ten years. An awards release of 12 June 2026 says up to 6,000 homes across five themed precincts. We print both with their dates rather than choosing, because the developer has not reconciled them. Two addresses inside it have pages here: Lakelands Waterfront Villas and Laguna Lakelands Waterside Residences.

What is there to do on the Laguna Phuket estate day to day?

A free inter-resort shuttle runs between the hotels, the golf course, the beach and Canal Village, which is the reason a home on the lagoon is not a car-dependent home. Canal Village is the estate's own retail, inside the gates, with Boat Avenue and Porto de Phuket immediately outside them. The 18-hole Laguna Golf Phuket course is in play rather than planned. BDMS Wellness Clinic Laguna Phuket is a 24-hour clinic on the estate, and the SILK international kindergarten is on it too. RAVA Beach Club sits on the beach row and is carried by owners under Banyan's 2026 owner schedule.

Are the Lakelands facilities built yet?

Some of what is advertised is drawn rather than standing, and the developer's own pages say so. The Lakelands site lists 15 kilometres of walkways and cycling trails, a town centre with shops, spas and restaurants, access to the Laguna Beach Club and to what it calls Phuket's first Community Club, membership of RAVA Beach Club, electric-vehicle charging points and an organic farm. Much of that material is presented as an artist's impression. That is the practical difference between Lakelands and the estate beside it: Laguna Phuket has been operating for three decades and can be walked on a Tuesday afternoon, and Lakelands is largely still a drawing.

Can a foreigner own a lake or golf apartment at Laguna Phuket?

For the Lakelands condominiums the developer's own guide of 4 June 2026 states the two routes plainly: freehold title within the building's 49 per cent foreign ownership quota, or a registered leasehold. Elsewhere on the estate our register reads confirming on most addresses, which means Banyan's documents supplied to us do not state the structure and we will not print one of two plausible answers before reading the papers. Villa and land product is ordinarily offered to a foreign buyer on a registered lease, because Thai law restricts foreign land ownership. The whole question, with the renewal clause explained, is in our leasehold or freehold piece.

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