You know the villa in every Mykonos photo that isn’t the one you stayed in? The one on the hill with the pool you could see from your balcony, lit up at midnight, playing music you couldn’t quite hear? That one is on the market, and so are four of its equivalents on other islands.
None of them is a starter home, a second home, or a sensible home. They are the home, singular, the property an island uses as a landmark: “turn left at the big white one.” Between them they hold 38 bedrooms, three oceans, and precisely zero neighbors close enough to borrow anything.
The prices start at $1.5 million and stop somewhere around a small airline. Consider this a tour, not a viewing.
1. Seven Bedrooms Above Kamala, Phuket
Kamala’s northern headland has been known as Millionaire’s Mile for long enough that the name stopped being a joke. The bay below faces the Andaman Sea and the sunset, which is the entire argument for the address.
Seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms sit inside 3,248 square meters, the largest home on this list by a wide margin. Ocean views are the listing’s headline, and at this scale they are the point.
- Location: Kamala, Phuket, Thailand
- Size: 3,248 m², seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms
- Price: $15.5 million
- Comes with: Residency
- Program: Thailand Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa
2. Icarus, Above Elia Beach, Mykonos
Elia is the long south-coast beach Mykonos regulars retreat to when Psarou gets loud. Icarus sits on the hillside above it, and its brokers describe a view that runs past Naxos and Paros to open sea.
Seven en-suite bedrooms share 315 square meters, compact by the standards of this list, on a plot of roughly 2,000 square meters with an infinity pool. Winter on Mykonos is quiet enough that a house like this becomes an island of its own.
- Location: Elia Beach, Mykonos, Greece
- Size: 315 m², seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms
- Price: $3.4 million
- Comes with: Residency
- Program: Greece Golden Visa
3. Seven Bedrooms on Souda Bay, Crete
Crete is the island Greeks buy on once they are done with the Cyclades. Almyrida is a small village on Souda Bay, east of Chania, where the water is sheltered and the White Mountains stand behind the village.
The villa runs to 511 square meters, seven bedrooms, and seven bathrooms. In Chania’s bracket that is an estate, and it is the most expensive home on this list after Phuket.
- Location: Almyrida, Chania, Crete, Greece
- Size: 511 m², seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms
- Price: $3.9 million
- Comes with: Residency
- Program: Greece Golden Visa
4. Beachfront at Forbes Hill, Great Exuma
The Exumas have the water the Bahamas puts on its posters, and Forbes Hill sits at the quiet southern end of Great Exuma, well past George Town. The Tropic of Cancer crosses Little Exuma a short drive on.
Seven bedrooms and 465 square meters, directly on the sand. Four bathrooms for seven bedrooms is the one number an owner might want to change; the location is not.
- Location: Forbes Hill, Great Exuma, Bahamas
- Size: 465 m², seven bedrooms, four bathrooms
- Price: $2.7 million
- Comes with: Permanent residency
- Program: Bahamas Economic Permanent Residence
5. The Compound: Three Homes on Saboga Island
Saboga is one of the Pearl Islands, roughly 35 miles off Panama City in the Gulf of Panama, reached by daily ferry and neighbor to Contadora and its airstrip. The archipelago is what the Bahamas looked like before the Bahamas got busy.
This is the only entry that is a compound rather than a house: three homes, ten bedrooms, ten bathrooms, and 1,508 square meters between them. It is also the least expensive on the list, which says more about the Pearl Islands than about the estate.
- Location: Saboga Island, Pearl Islands, Panama
- Size: 1,508 m² across three homes, ten bedrooms, ten bathrooms
- Price: $1.5 million
- Comes with: Permanent residency
- Program: Panama Qualified Investor Visa
IMI Real Estate is updated constantly with homes from across the world, from island estates like these to city apartments a fraction of the price, and every one of them qualifies its buyer for residency or citizenship in the country it sits in. The house comes with the passport, or at least the permit.
