About the company
The Riviera Group is a privately held Pattaya developer. According to the company, it has been built up since 2010 by founder Winston Gale and his wife Sukanya, who serves as Projects Director. Gale’s first Thai project was The Palm on Wongamat, developed in partnership with Nova Group; under its own Riviera brand the company has since delivered several large towers in Naklua and Jomtien. It is not listed on the stock exchange. Construction finance comes partly from Siam Commercial Bank: in 2016 Pattaya Mail reported a THB 920 million SCB loan for Riviera Wongamat.
The group is a regular at industry awards. Riviera Wongamat was named Best Luxury Condominium at the 2016 Thailand Property Awards, Riviera Monaco took Best Condo Development (Eastern Seaboard) in 2020, the company itself was named Best Developer (Eastern Seaboard) in 2025, and in 2026 Riviera Malibu Residences won the region’s luxury condo category.
What their projects are like
Riviera’s earlier projects are 40-plus-storey towers with hundreds of units, resort-style amenities (multi-level pools, water slides, sky pools) and a high share of studios and one-bedrooms, a format designed to work both as a home and as a rental. Demand was not purely foreign: reports from 2016 put Thai buyers at roughly 60% of the group’s purchasers.
The newer launches carry Californian names — Malibu, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, California — and the formats have widened: Beverly Hills Residences is the group’s first low-rise development. The footprint covers Wongamat (Naklua Soi 16), Jomtien and Na Jomtien, Pratumnak and the Thepprasit area.
Projects in Thailand
- The Riviera Wongamat Beach — two towers (roughly 40 and 43 floors) with 979 units on Naklua Soi 16, completed in 2017.
- The Riviera Jomtien — 46 floors, 1,072 condo units and 18 commercial units on about 6 rai on Jomtien 2nd Road.
- The Riviera Monaco — a 40-storey, 412-unit tower on Na Jomtien Soi 4, completed in 2021.
- The Riviera Ocean Drive — a tower on Jomtien 2nd Road, completed in 2022.
- The Riviera Malibu Residences — 30 storeys and 275 units on Pratumnak Soi 5, scheduled for completion at the end of 2026.
- The Riviera Santa Monica — 34 storeys and 447 units in Jomtien, scheduled for November 2028.
- The Riviera Beverly Hills Residences — 469 units in three eight-storey buildings near Thepprasit Soi 9, scheduled for June 2028.
- Also selling: The Riviera California on Thappraya Road and the 47-storey beachfront The Riviera Palm Beach on Wongamat.
What buyers should check
- Completed building or off-plan. Wongamat, Jomtien, Monaco and Ocean Drive are up and running, so you can judge them in person: the state of pools and lifts, how the juristic person is run, the size of the sinking fund. Malibu, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, California and Palm Beach are still under construction — match the payment schedule against actual progress, which the company reports on its website.
- Competition within the building. In projects of 400 to over 1,000 units there are many near-identical studios and one-bedrooms, so on resale or rental you compete with your neighbours. Benchmark price and rent against listings in the same building, not the area as a whole.
- Foreign quota. In buildings popular with foreigners, foreign-quota stock on the resale market can be scarce — confirm the quota status of the specific unit (Foreign or Thai quota) before paying a deposit.
- Similar names. Riviera Wongamat and Riviera Palm Beach Wongamat, Riviera Monaco and Riviera Malibu are different buildings of different vintages. In contracts and resale searches, go by the address.
