Latest listing added: August, 2026
1. Arutua Island (€6,500,000)
- Location: Arutua Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago
- Size: ~32.1 acres, 13 hectares
- Description: 12km NW of Rautini, Approx 15km SW of Arutua Airport
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Undeveloped
- Map: See on Google Earth
Most motu face one way. Arutua has two coastlines, lagoon on one side, open Pacific on the other, which across thirteen hectares means two entirely different settings within a few minutes’ walk.
The lagoon side gives the calm, shallow, wadeable water the Tuamotus are known for. The ocean side gives surf, horizon and the deep blue of the open Pacific. A development can use both, orienting accommodation for sunrise on one shore and sunset on the other.
The island is undeveloped and currently worked as a coconut plantation, so the land is partly cleared and walkable rather than impenetrable, a practical starting point for any build.
Arutua Atoll lies in the northwestern Tuamotus with its own airstrip and connections toward Papeete. The island is held in full ownership through a corporate structure.
2. Motu Teta Rangiroa (1,900,000)
- Location: Rangiroa
- Size: ~9.5 acres, ~3.8 hectares
- Description: 10km from shore, 43km SE of Tiputa, 48km south of Rangiroa Airport
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Developed
- Map: See on Google Earth
A relaxing paradise with guaranteed peace and privacy – Motu Teta Rangiroa is a property of luxury and prestige. Surrounded by turquoise lagoons, the island offers some of the world’s best snorkelling and diving opportunities.
From the clear, shallow waters surrounding its shores to the vibrant coral reefs set beyond, there is no shortage of natural beauty on Motu Teta Rangiroa. Yet, views of the island from the encompassing lagoon alone are enough to imprint on anyone’s mind and capture their imagination.
In addition to its visual impact, Motu Teta Rangiroa is a popular spot for fishing, boating, kayaking, and other leisure activities.
Current facilities on the island comprise of residential bungalows, caretakers accommodations, and utility buildings – all serviced by utilities.
An ideal investment for those looking to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and enjoy the simple pleasures of an island paradise.
3. Motu Tiano (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Raiatea lagoon, Îles Sous le Vent
- Size: ~20 acres, 8.09 hectares
- Description: 12km SW of Uturoa, Approx 12km S of Raiatea Airport
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Developed
- Map: See on Google Earth
Motu Tiano sits a few hundred metres off Raiatea’s southwestern shore, close enough that the crossing is measured in minutes, far enough that the water around it belongs to the island alone.
Sixteen and a half acres, and it comes finished. A classic Polynesian style residence of roughly 1,800 square feet stands fully furnished with three bedrooms, served by a wharf, a large dock and a boathouse. Mains electricity and water are connected, internet is in, and an experienced caretaker is based across the lagoon.
That matters more than the specification suggests. Most Polynesian motu sell as raw land where every service must be created from nothing. Tiano has been held and maintained as a private retreat by the same owners for around twenty years, so its systems are proven rather than proposed.
Raiatea, ancestral centre of Polynesian navigation and the sailing capital of the Leeward Islands, has its own airport twelve kilometres north, with Uturoa town alongside it.
4. Motu Azurea (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Bora Bora lagoon, Society Islands
- Size: ~1.1 acres, 0.45 hectares
- Description: 9km NW of Vaitape, Approx 2.4km SW of Bora Bora Airport
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Partially developed
- Map: See on Google Earth
Freehold land inside the Bora Bora lagoon almost never trades. Motu Azurea is 1.1 acres of exactly that, a small, complete island in the most photographed lagoon on earth.
The scale is intimate rather than grand. This is not a resort site; it is a private motu with modest structures already standing, suited to a personal retreat where the water is the point and the building footprint stays deliberately small.
What you are really buying is position. Bora Bora’s lagoon is a ring of impossibly clear water around a volcanic peak, and owning a motu within it puts you inside that ring rather than looking at it from a hotel terrace. Vaitape’s shops and restaurants, and the airport on Motu Mute, are a short boat ride away.
For a buyer who has looked at Bora Bora and concluded there is nothing genuinely private left to own, Azurea is the exception.
5. Motu Orama (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Rangiroa Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago
- Size: ~9.5 acres, 3.84 hectares
- Description: 45km SE of Tiputa, Approx 48km SE of Rangiroa Airport
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Developed
- Map: See on Google Earth
Rangiroa is one of the largest atolls on the planet and, by common consent among divers, one of the finest, its passes famous for drift dives through squadrons of sharks, dolphins and manta rays. Motu Orama is 9.5 freehold acres of it.
The island already carries structures, though the broker is candid that they need comprehensive renovation. That is reflected in how it is offered: a site with bones rather than a turnkey property, for a buyer who would rather rebuild to their own brief than inherit someone else’s decisions.
The setting needs no improvement. Luminous turquoise shallows give way to white sand, and one of the richest coral reef systems anywhere sits directly offshore.
Rangiroa has its own airport with regular connections to Papeete, making it among the more accessible Tuamotu atolls despite the sense of remoteness the moment you are on the water.
6. Motu Mahare (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Northeast of Huahine, Society Islands
- Size: ~41.1 acres, 16.62 hectares
- Description: 6km E of Fare, Approx 6km SE of Huahine Airport
- Ownership: Information upon request
- Development: Undeveloped
- Map: See on Google Earth
At 16.62 hectares, Mahare is among the largest private islands to reach the Polynesian market, big enough that the landscape changes as you cross it, from open white sand to rock formations to dense tropical vegetation.
The island lies northeast of Huahine, one of the Society Islands’ least developed and best loved destinations, known as the garden island for its jungle interior and its near absence of resort building.
A fringing reef runs along the southern shore, close enough to swim to and shallow enough to read from the surface, the kind of reef that makes snorkelling a daily habit rather than an excursion. Turquoise lagoon water wraps the island on every side.
Mahare is offered largely undeveloped, which at this scale means an unusually open brief: a single private estate, a low density retreat, or a boutique resort with room to separate its buildings properly. Details are released on a confidential basis to qualified buyers.
7. Tipaemau Island (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Off Raiatea, Îles Sous le Vent (Leeward Islands)
- Size: ~31.3 acres, 12.68 hectares
- Description: 11km SE of Raiatea Airport, 9km SE of Uturoa, 212km NW of Papeete
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Undeveloped
- Map: See on Google Earth
In French Polynesia the rarest thing about an island is rarely the island, it is a clean title. Tipaemau is offered sans indivision, free of the fragmented multi heir ownership that complicates most Polynesian land, and that alone places it in a very small category.
The island covers 12.68 hectares off Raiatea, eleven kilometres southeast of the airport and nine from Uturoa town. It is undeveloped: white sand beaches, a protected crystalline lagoon, and rich tropical vegetation of coconut and fruit trees running back from the shore.
The water is the draw. Corals and tropical fish lie directly offshore in a lagoon sheltered by Raiatea’s barrier reef, and Raiatea itself, the ancestral heart of Polynesian navigation and the yachting hub of the Leewards, is minutes away by boat.
For a buyer who wants to build from nothing on secure title, in a sheltered lagoon rather than open ocean, Tipaemau is as clean a proposition as this market offers.
8. Manuhangi Atoll (Price Upon Request)
- Location: Tuamotu Archipelago, Hao commune, French Polynesia
- Size: ~247 acres, 100 hectares
- Description: 96km SSW of Hao, approx. 20 min by light aircraft from Hao airstrip
- Ownership: Freehold
- Development: Undeveloped
- Map: See on Google Earth
Manuhangi means birds in the sky in Pa’umotu, named for the rare endemic species that crisscross this atoll and the waters around it. It is offered whole: one hundred hectares of land encircling its own lagoon in the Tuamotu Archipelago.
The atoll is not a single island but a succession of small motu, some separated by no more than a strip of coral. It is uninhabited, used only as a base by Pa’umotu fishermen who have established a water reserve there.
Access is better than the remoteness suggests. Hao, the commune capital, lies 96 kilometres away and carries an airstrip long enough to serve as a diversion runway for jumbo jets, with Papeete two hours’ flight beyond. From Hao, Manuhangi is roughly twenty minutes by light aircraft or helicopter. Atolls of this type commonly build their own airstrip or helipad.
There is precedent nearby: Nukutepipi, developed in the same region by Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté. Details are released on a confidential basis.
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