Condos for Rent in Phuket

What a condo costs to rent in Phuket

A condo is the cheapest legitimate way to live on Phuket long-term. The catalogue holds 2,553 units available on twelve-month contracts across all fifteen tourist zones, and the entry rate is ฿10,000 a month — a studio inland, in Phuket Town or Kathu.

One-bedroom units are the centre of this market by a wide margin: 1,369 of them, from ฿10,000 with a median near ฿23,000 a month. Studios (648 listings) are slightly cheaper on typical terms, with a ฿16,000 median. Two-bedroom condos are a different tier — 477 units, from ฿15,000 with a median close to ฿55,000 — and the 51 three-bedroom apartments start at ฿35,000 and run to a ฿130,000 median, at which point a house or villa usually offers more space for the money.

Two numbers explain why this format suits a first year on the island: 2,506 of the listed condos are fully furnished and 2,459 sit in buildings with a pool. In practice you arrive with a suitcase, and the gym, pool and security are already paid for inside the building's service charge.

What the rate includes, and what you pay on top

The convention is a twelve-month lease at a fixed monthly rate, a security deposit of two months' rent, and the first month paid on signing. Electricity and water are billed on top at meter rates; in a one-bedroom condo with air conditioning used daily, expect the electricity line to be the main variable.

The building's common-area fee — which funds the pool, gym, lifts and security — is normally the owner's responsibility rather than the tenant's, but it is worth having that stated in the contract rather than assumed. Internet is frequently included in condo lets and rarely in houses. Parking is usually one space per unit, allocated, and not always included for a second car.

Where the condos are

Inventory concentrates inland, and that is where the value is. Phuket Town leads with 752 condos from ฿10,000 and an ฿18,000 median — the widest, cheapest selection on the island, with city amenities instead of a beach. Kathu follows closely: 494 units from ฿10,000, median ฿15,000, ten minutes from Patong over the hill.

The beach premium is visible and more than double. Bang Tao offers 329 condos from ฿13,000 but a median of ฿48,000; Kamala sits at a ฿35,000 median, Patong ฿35,000, Rawai ฿39,000 and Surin ฿45,000. Across the whole selection, 515 units are within a kilometre of a beach — that subset carries the premium almost by itself.

Renting a condo you could also buy

About 329 of the listed condos are dual-listed — roughly one in eight: the same unit is offered for long-term rent and for sale at the same time, with both the monthly rate and the asking price on the card. For a condo this matters more than for other formats, because a foreigner can own one freehold within the building's 49% foreign quota — so the unit you rent this year can genuinely become the unit you own next year.

Our guide on renting versus buying in Phuket runs the maths across the catalogue's dual-listed homes; the condos for sale catalogue covers the purchase side, and villas for rent is the step up in space.