Dcondo reef

dcondo reef is a low-rise Sansiri condominium in Kathu, the inland district of Phuket between Patong and Phuket Town. Three 8-storey blocks and a clubhouse stand on a long plot of 12,800 sq m. There are 708 premises: 706 homes and two shops by the main gate. The building is finished; work ran from May 2023 to September 2024.

Two layout schemes are used here, and they are opposites. In the studios, in 1D and 1DM, and in the two-bedroom plans the kitchen and the bathroom sit by the front door, and the balcony belongs to the room. In 1B and 1C it is the other way round. The kitchen takes the strip between the living area and the balcony: you step through it to get outside. Only the bathroom stays by the door.

In 1B and 1C the bedroom is closed not by a wall but by a sliding partition across the full width of the room. It shuts out the light, not the sound. Among the one-bedroom plans a solid wall with a swing door appears only in 1D and 1DM. Those two plans also carry a second room beside the bedroom, a multi purpose room, and no other unit in the building has one; their balcony opens off the bedroom. In the two-bedroom plans the bedrooms sit on opposite sides of the living area, each with its own bathroom. The flat still shares one balcony, and the only way onto it is through the living area. Sansiri describes the residences as fully furnished; what exactly is handed over is not published as a list.

The clubhouse is not a floor inside a residential block. It is several free-standing volumes in the middle of the plot: the Fit 360 gym, the co-working room, the main entrance and the office of the condominium's juristic person. Buildings A and B are L-shaped, building C is a straight slab. The corridor in each runs down the middle, so half of the flats face the courtyard and half look outward, towards the edge of the plot.

Kathu is the middle of the island rather than the coast. West of the plot the road climbs the pass to Patong. East of it the flat land runs to Phuket Town, and that is where everything you drive out for stands: Central Phuket, Bangkok Hospital Phuket, the Prince of Songkla campus. There will be no sea from the windows: hills stand between Kathu and the shore, and the blocks are low and face their own courtyard.

The project was built to be registered as a condominium: a unit is held in full ownership, freehold. That form has a ceiling — foreign owners may hold no more than 49% of the building's residential floor area. On the developer's terms the owner of a unit pays into the sinking fund. The monthly common fee, tax and other charges follow the rates set by the building's management. How much of the quota is free, what the upkeep costs and what units sell for, Sansiri does not publish: those are questions for the sales office.