Phuket Long-Term Condo Rental Rates

A monthly price alone does not make two listings comparable. The same condo can be advertised at one rate for a year, another for six months and a third for three. The main comparison therefore keeps only units where the quoted rent is explicitly tied to a 12-month or one-year lease.

After obvious repeats are removed, 125 condos remain as of 27 September 2026. Six-to-eleven-month offers are kept separate, while shorter terms do not enter the area medians. If a listing does not state the term, it is not silently treated as a one-year lease.

The unit of comparison is the actual apartment, not a project’s advertised starting price. Houses, villas, hotel residences, daily and weekly stays are excluded. Repeated cards for the same condo are collapsed where unit number, size, floor or other details make the match clear.

Inclusions are handled just as cautiously. Silence does not mean “free” or “not included.” Internet, cleaning, water, electricity, parking and other charges are treated as known only when the listing says so. The figures below therefore describe advertised rent, not an automatic all-in monthly living cost.

The most useful benchmarks come from area-and-bedroom groups with at least eight condos on explicit 12-month terms. The main number is the median, while the band shows the middle 50% of asking rents. That is less vulnerable to one unusually cheap or expensive home than a minimum, maximum or simple average.

Bedroom count still hides very different floor areas. Median one-bedroom size is about 31 sq m in Phuket Town/Wichit, 29 sq m in Kathu, 34 sq m in Bang Tao/Choeng Thale, 40 sq m in Rawai/Nai Harn, 46 sq m in Patong/Kalim and 52 sq m in Kata/Karon. The two-bedroom medians are roughly 47 sq m in Phuket Town/Wichit and 61 sq m in Bang Tao/Choeng Thale. Part of the rent gap is therefore simply a size gap.

Some area figures are stable; others depend heavily on which developments have multiple units available. Removing the most represented project moves the Phuket Town/Wichit one-bedroom median from THB 16,000 to THB 15,000 and Rawai/Nai Harn from THB 29,500 to THB 30,000. Kathu changes much more, from THB 12,500 to THB 16,500.

Two-bedroom figures are more sensitive again. Excluding the most represented development moves Phuket Town/Wichit from THB 38,000 to THB 30,000, while Bang Tao/Choeng Thale rises from THB 60,000 to THB 70,000. Those numbers still help with a current search, but they are not permanent neighbourhood tariffs.

The table is not a ranking of where to live. It records comparable annual asking rents on the review date; view, condition, floor, building age, services and actual availability can still move an individual condo well away from its area median.

As of 27 September 2026: furnished condominium listings with an explicit 12-month lease. After obvious repeats are removed, 125 condos remain; the band shows the middle 50% of asking rents.

The same apartment can show the price of lease flexibility better than any city average. A current The Base Bukit listing in Wichit quoted THB 17,500 a month for a year, THB 20,500 for six months and THB 22,500 for three; internet was included, water and electricity were extra. An Origin Kathu listing showed THB 18,000 for one year and THB 22,000 for six months.

There are 13 current units where both annual and six-month prices are clearly stated side by side. Across those examples, the six-month rate carries a median uplift of about 13%, with the middle half of the gap around 11%–20%. That is not a Phuket-wide rule: most of the matched units are in Wichit and Kathu, and many owners never publish two terms at once.

Inclusions can change the real budget just as much as the term. Some offers bundle internet or common-area charges, others leave water, electricity and internet outside the rent, and some listings say nothing. Two THB 30,000 condos can therefore produce different monthly outgoings.

Move-in cash is a separate calculation. Two months of security deposit plus one month in advance appears often, but it is not universal. For one apartment the useful formula is simply: advance rent + security deposit + any one-off charges that are actually stated in writing.

An asking rent is what an owner or agent is advertising now, not the amount written into a signed lease. A listing does not reveal whether the parties negotiated, what rent was ultimately agreed, or whether the unit is still genuinely available. Even a card disappearing from a portal does not prove it rented at the displayed price.

Listing volume is not a vacancy rate either. One condo can appear through several agents, and a large development can generate many cards and dominate the search page. The table therefore describes public asking supply, not the share of empty apartments in an area.

There is also a legal qualification around move-in payments. Since 4 September 2025, Thailand has applied an updated controlled-contract regime to qualifying residential rental businesses. Tilleke & Gibbins describes its scope as including lessors with at least three residential units, while OCPB’s June 2026 guidance makes the identity and status of the lessor relevant in condominium situations.

So “two months’ deposit plus one month in advance” is a frequently observed term, not a universal rule for every privately owned Phuket condo. For a specific lease, both the payment wording and the legal status of the contracting lessor matter.