Houses for Rent in Phuket

What a house costs to rent in Phuket

A house is the family format: the same standalone living as a villa, materially cheaper, and almost always away from the beach. The catalogue holds 1,532 houses on twelve-month contracts across thirteen districts, from ฿12,000 a month.

Three-bedroom homes dominate — 743 of the 1,532 listings, from ฿18,000 with a median near ฿45,000. Two-bedroom houses are the budget end: 409 listings from ฿15,000, median ฿30,000. Four bedrooms move the median to ฿75,000, and the half-dozen six-bedroom houses reach a ฿150,000 median — above the villa market's own ฿130,000 midpoint, the point where house and villa pricing cross over.

The clearest difference from a villa is the pool: 730 of the 1,532 houses have one, just under half — against 95% of villas. The second difference is location: of the houses with mapped coordinates, only 12 sit within a kilometre of a beach. This is residential Phuket, not resort Phuket, and the rate reflects it: a three-bedroom house at ฿45,000 is roughly a third of the ฿125,000 median for a three-bedroom villa.

What the rate includes, and what you pay on top

The convention is a twelve-month lease at a fixed monthly rate, a two-month security deposit and the first month on signing. Electricity, water and internet are billed on top at meter rates, and 1,371 of the 1,532 houses come fully furnished, so a first year rarely needs a furniture budget.

Garden and pool upkeep is the line to settle before signing. Inside a managed estate it is usually part of the rate; for a standalone house on private land the tenant is often expected to arrange it. Ask who holds the maintenance contract, who pays for the pool chemicals, and what happens when the air conditioning fails — for a standalone house those answers are less standardised than in a condo building.

Where the houses are

Two districts hold more than half the inventory. Phuket Town leads with 478 houses from ฿17,000, median ฿50,000 — city schools, hospitals and offices within a short drive. Thalang follows with 341 houses from ฿13,000 and a ฿40,000 median: this is the school belt, close to the international campuses and to the Bang Tao–Layan coast without paying the beach premium.

Chalong is the volume value zone — 191 houses from ฿13,000, the largest sub-฿45,000 selection on the island. Rawai and Karon share the lowest entry point at ฿12,000 a month, though Karon's selection is thin at 18 houses against Rawai's 72. Cape Yamu adds 114 quiet east-coast houses around a ฿45,000 median, and Kathu another 112 from ฿18,000. Bang Tao carries 72 houses too — on the west coast a house remains the alternative to paying villa money for the same postcode.

House or villa, and rent or buy

If you want a pool and a west-coast address, compare against villas for rent — 1,840 listings, a ฿130,000 median, and a pool in 95% of them. If you want space, a garden and a school run, the house market gives you both at roughly a third of the rate.

155 of these houses — about one in ten — are also listed for sale, showing the monthly rate and the asking price on the same card. Our guide on renting versus buying in Phuket works through that decision, and the houses for sale catalogue covers the purchase side.