Location

Most people searching for a rental in Pattaya are shown condos. If you need a house or a villa — a garden, a private pool, room for a family, somewhere to park two cars — that is a different market with different stock, different rent bands and different lease terms. This page covers the two areas where we hold the most of it: Na Jomtien and East Pattaya.

What the two areas actually cost

These are median asking rents across our live book, not estimates or forecasts. A median means half the listings sit below the figure and half above, so treat it as the middle of the market rather than the price of any particular house.

Area	Live listings	Median monthly rent
Na Jomtien	228	37,000 THB
East Pattaya	633	55,000 THB
Huay Yai	—	120,000 THB

Across all areas we currently have 803 houses on the books. One honest caveat before you read too much into the table: those listing counts are the full inventory for each area, covering condos and houses together, and the medians are drawn from the same mixed pool. The house-only count for each location is something we confirm live when you enquire, because it moves week to week as tenancies start and end. We would rather tell you that than publish a number we cannot stand behind.

The pattern behind the figures is consistent though. East Pattaya sits above Na Jomtien on rent, and Huay Yai sits well above both — that is the villa end of the market, where a 120,000 THB median reflects larger plots and private pools rather than a busier location.

Na Jomtien

Na Jomtien runs south along the coast from Jomtien proper. It is quieter, it is closer to the beach than East Pattaya, and the housing stock is mixed — low-rise condo projects on the beach road, and houses and villas set back behind Sukhumvit. At a 37,000 THB median it is the more affordable of the two areas in our book.

If you want to compare a beachfront condo against a house before you decide, Movenpick White Sand Beach is a 1-bedroom in Na Jomtien currently listed at 60,000 THB per month. It is a useful reference point: in this area, a serviced beachfront one-bed can cost noticeably more per month than the median house.

East Pattaya

East Pattaya is where the volume is — 633 live listings and a 55,000 THB median. It is inland, it is built around housing estates rather than towers, and it is the natural choice for tenants who want space, a car and a longer lease rather than a walk to the beach.

A concrete example from our current stock: Sirisa 16, a 3-bedroom house in East Pattaya listed at 45,000 THB per month. That is below the East Pattaya median, which tells you the median is being pulled up by larger villas rather than set by standard three-bed family houses.

Renting a house is not renting a condo

Four things change when you move from a condo to a house, and they are the four that cause problems later:

• Lease length. House landlords generally want 12 months. Short and seasonal terms exist but they are the exception and they are priced accordingly.
• The garden and the pool. Someone has to maintain them. Whether that cost sits with you or the owner should be written into the contract, not agreed verbally.
• Utilities. A house on a private meter bills differently to a condo, and a pool pump running daily is a real line on the electricity bill.
• Repairs. In a condo the building handles a lot. In a house, it is the owner — or their manager. If nobody is managing the property, a broken air conditioner becomes your problem to chase.

That last point is why we manage what we let. When we hold the management, a repair request has one place to go and one person accountable for it.

Owners: what letting a house involves

Houses and villas sit in a higher rent band than most condos in these areas, and tenants at that level expect the property to be looked after properly — inspections between tenancies, a maintained pool and garden, and someone reachable when something fails. We handle tenant sourcing, contracts, deposits, inspections and ongoing maintenance coordination. We do not offer guaranteed rent or promised returns; what we offer is that the property is handled, and that you know what is happening with it.

Ownership structure matters too if you are buying to let. Foreign nationals cannot hold land freehold in Thailand, so villa and house ownership is arranged through other structures — take proper legal advice on that before you commit to anything.

Next step

Tell us the area, the number of bedrooms, whether you need a private pool and your move-in date, and we will come back with what is genuinely available now rather than a list of things that were let last month.

• Check availability for houses and villas in Na Jomtien or East Pattaya.
• Arrange a viewing — we will group several houses into one afternoon so you can compare properly.
• Ask about management if you own a house here and want it let and looked after.