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Simpang Ampat and Nibong Tebal

Factory workforce asking data · collected 2026-08-26 · refreshed weekly

A three-bedroom here rents for RM 1,500 a month and is typically taken within 42 days. That means the rent alone covers the entire bank installment, with 22% to spare. You top up RM 460 in cash monthly, but RM 280 of the installment becomes your own equity, so holding this asset really costs you about RM 181 a month.

1,500 RM/mo Median 3BR asking rent n=101 · 2026-08-26
1.43 RM psf Rent per sq ft n=152
300 RM psf Sale asking psf n=82
122 % Rent covers installment at 90% margin, 4.3%, 35y
42 days Median time listed n=97 · floor, see below
50 /100 Tenant demand from market behaviour
Cash truth

What this zone actually pays you

The median three-bedroom here asks RM 1,500 a month and, at the zone's asking psf, costs about RM 297,000 for 990 sq ft. Financed the way most Malaysian buyers finance, this is the arithmetic:

Deal calculator · pre-loaded with this zone's medians before income tax
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The equity line is real but locked: it is loan principal your tenant's rent repays, realised only when you sell or refinance, and it assumes the value holds. The cash line is what leaves your bank account now. Both are the truth; neither is the whole truth alone.

Running costs assume RM0.33 psf maintenance, one month's vacancy and one month's agent fee per year, 5% repairs, plus quit rent, assessment and insurance. Full itemisation in the methodology. Rental income is taxable at your marginal rate, so a positive figure here is better than reality.

Tenant demand · 50 / 100

Measured from the market, not the map

How fast units rent 36 / 100
typical listing is taken in 42 days · n=97
How hard the rent works 68 / 100
rent earns 5.71% a year of the purchase price
The two measures disagree Rent strength (68) is well ahead of absorption (36): good rent, but slow to find a tenant.

Days on market is a floor, not an exact figure: the source portal expires listings at about 60 days, so a very slow market and a moderately slow one can look the same. Points of interest below are context only; they do not feed this score.

Asking rent by layout

What each bedroom count rents for

1 bedroom insufficient sample (n=4)
2 bedroom RM 1,300n=38
3 bedroom RM 1,500n=101
4 bedroom insufficient sample (n=8)
Where the numbers come from

Two portals, weighted honestly

SourceSampledAdvertisedRent psfSale psf
mudah 167 3,290 1.36 264
propertyguru 89 1,200 1.64 400

22 units were advertised on both portals and counted once. Headline figures weight each listing by its portal's reachable inventory, so the median reflects the market rather than how many pages we fetched. The portals disagree here: PropertyGuru's rent psf runs 21% above Mudah's. That gap is a real feature of this zone's market, not an error; the two carry different segments.

Repost collapsing reduced 164 rental listings to 97. Without it the 3BR median would read RM 1,500 instead of RM 1,450. Treat that spread as the uncertainty band on the rent figures above.

Area context · measured from Simpang Ampat town centre

What surrounds it

Background only. None of this feeds the demand score.

Industrial sites + offices, 5 km38 + 14
Campuses + international schools, 5 km2 + 0
Hospitals, 5 km1
Malls + F&B, 2 km0 + 10
Nearest transit station none found

OpenStreetMap coverage is uneven in Malaysia; malls in particular are often untagged. Raw counts shown so the gaps stay visible.

Blocks · top 15 by rental supply

Where the listings cluster

BlockFor rentFor saleRent psfDays listed
Eco Bloom @ Eco Meadows 26 5 1.63 39
Royale Infinity 19 12 1.27 50
Palm Garden @ Pearl City 14 2 1.40 25
Avenue Garden 10 5 1.46 47
Rumah Pangsa Mutiara Indah 3 0
3 2
Pangsapuri Residensi Panchor 2 0
Taman Bukit Panchor 2 2
Lembah Indah 2 3
Taman Merak 2 1
Taman Jentayu 1 0
Taman Nibong Tebal Jaya 1 4
Taman Idaman 1 0
Taman Sintar Indah 1 0
Taman Merak Jaya 1 2

63 rental and 26 sale listings carry no building identity and count toward the zone medians but not toward any block row. Supply pressure per block is not assessed until we hold verified unit counts.

Before you act on any of this These are asking figures. Transactions typically close 5 to 15% below asking. If a number here would change a decision, ask a human to verify it first. No sales script, no obligation.