Larkin, 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.

Larkin has industrial land (Kawasan Perindustrian Larkin and the Larkin Tampoi industrial park). Listings this round with those addresses: a 16,580 sq ft unit in the Larkin Tampoi park asking RM16,580, and a 27,000 sq ft detached factory (on 50,000 sq ft of land) in Kawasan Perindustrian Larkin asking RM25,000. There is also a series of large factory listings addressed only as "Larkin" (20,000 to 300,000 sq ft), all with the same title and all at RM1.8 per sq ft, which are not counted one by one. Asking prices. If you need a factory, tell me the use and the size.

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

Renting, letting or selling in Larkin, 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. Larkin is about 12 minutes by car to the JB CIQ (in the traffic when queried at midday on 21 October). Almost every residential listing this round was a condo, mostly three-bedrooms at Larkin Heights, Seasons Amara and M Condominium.

• Housing is almost all condos, mostly three-bedrooms.
• Larkin Heights, Seasons Amara Larkin and M Condominium @ Larkin had the most listings.
• The Larkin Sentral bus station is in the area, next to the industrial zone.
• The crossing used is the Causeway (JB CIQ), into town along Jalan Tun Abdul Razak.

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 Larkin. 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 "Larkin" (5 pages of residential plus 2 of condos) and "Larkin Johor Bahru" (2 pages), read 21 October 2026; filtered by address to this area, with a unit listed by several agents counted once (47 removed), leaving 74 listings; plus one listing with a sale price entered as a monthly rent and one whose type did not match its address, both left out. 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.
• Larkin to the JB CIQ drive time — Google Maps directions, queried around 12:30 pm on Wednesday 21 October 2026: about 12 minutes, 6.9 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.
• Place names and landmarks (Larkin Sentral, Plaza Larkin, SK Larkin 1 and 2) — Wikipedia, Larkin, Johor entry.

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.