Kota Southkey, JB

• Every rent below is an asking price from a property portal, not a transacted rent.
• Every table states when it was read and how many listings it came from. Thin samples are labelled as such — no averages are computed from a handful of listings.

There is no industrial land in Kota Southkey — it is a mall, office towers and high-rise housing.

Now you have seen the rents — which one are you?

Renting, letting or selling in Kota Southkey, JB — come straight to me for any of the three.

So the official figure — a median household income of RM8,977 for Johor Bahru district — covers every household in the district, including the large share working entirely on the Malaysian side: one person's Singapore salary is close to the median for a whole household across the district. Kota Southkey is about 14 minutes by car to the JB CIQ (from The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey, in the traffic when queried at midday on 21 October). Every residential listing this round was a serviced apartment at Southkey Mosaic, mostly two- and 2+1-bedrooms.

• Housing is all serviced apartments at Southkey Mosaic, mostly two- and 2+1-bedrooms.
• The mall, office towers and a private hospital are all in the area.
• The same unit listed by several agents is common.
• The crossing used is the Causeway (JB CIQ) via the Eastern Dispersal Link.

Whether this is a Chinese-majority or a Malay-majority area is not stated here. The statistics department publishes ethnic breakdowns by district, but only down to "Johor Bahru district" — not to Kota Southkey. Applying a district-wide ratio to a single neighbourhood would be wrong, so this is left blank until sub-district data can be found.

Everything above is public. What actually decides it — what is vacant now, what it really signs at, what yours would sell for today — is not public. Ask me.

Simon Wang · Licensed real estate agent, REN 56506 · 9 years, Johor Bahru only

• Condo and landed rents — PropertyGuru rental listings, searches for "Kota Southkey" (3 pages of residential plus 2 of condos), "Southkey" (5 plus 2) and "Mid Valley Southkey" (2 pages), read 21 October 2026; filtered by address to this area, with a unit listed by several agents counted once (57 removed), leaving 50 listings. Asking prices, not transacted rents.
• Shop rents — PropertyGuru commercial rentals, read 21 October 2026; filtered by address to this area and each listing read to split it by floor (in areas with many listings only the first dozen or so were read — the shop table shows how many). Asking prices.
• Household income — Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), household income by administrative district, 2024 data, Johor Bahru district. Official statistics.
• Commuter numbers and Singapore-dollar salaries — Sinar Daily, 28 May 2023. Press report, not official statistics; the ringgit conversion is at the rate quoted at the time.
• The Mall, Mid Valley Southkey to the JB CIQ drive time — Google Maps directions, queried around 12:30 pm on Wednesday 21 October 2026: about 14 minutes, 9.7 km, in the traffic at that time. Public map.
• Coordinates, schools, hospitals and malls — the institutions' Google Maps entries, checked 21 October 2026. Public map.

Due in the next version: Move the rents onto transacted data from the National Property Information Centre (NAPIC/JPPH) rather than asking prices alone; add the ethnic breakdown once sub-district data can be found; confirm the local authority and mukim; split condos by bathroom count listing by listing. Asking rents move, so the figures on this page are re-checked every six months.