Sutera Utama, JB
A residential area next to Skudai known for its shophouse commercial district — Sutera Mall and the Jalan Sutera Tanjung strip — with two international schools inside it. About 30 minutes by car to the JB CIQ. This page sets out three things: the rent bands being asked, who actually rents here, and what is around. Every figure says where it came from.
The rents are asking prices, not transacted rents — the two are rarely the same. Sources at the foot of the page.
I keep a current list of what is actually vacant here and what it really signs at.
Where Sutera Utama, JB is
Drive times assume ordinary traffic. The checkpoint backs up at peak hours and the real figure is very different — ask me which window actually moves.
- 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.
Condominiums and serviced apartments
By layout. Read 19 October 2026, 34 PropertyGuru listings filtered by address to this area (duplicates removed).
The RM900 at the bottom of the 3-bed row is an older flat (646 sq ft); the rest are all at The Seed. Bathroom counts cannot be split out.
Landed homes
Read 19 October 2026
Landed listings are scarce here — only nine this round. Whether you are looking to rent or to let your own home, get in touch.
Shop lots
Each of 14 listings was read to split it by floor. Most shop listings this round were newly completed three-storey shophouses let as whole buildings, mostly around Jalan Sutera Tanjung and Sutera Square, asking RM18,000 – 20,000; the highest, RM35,000, is an end unit (32 × 90 ft). No ground floor was offered on its own; one older shophouse quotes RM4,200 for the first floor and RM2,300 for the second.
Industrial
There is no industrial land in Sutera Utama — it is residential plus commercial shophouses. For factories, see the neighbouring Skudai page.
Now you have seen the rents — which one are you?
Renting, letting or selling in Sutera Utama, JB — come straight to me for any of the three.
Send me your budget, bedroom count and move-in date. I will send back what is vacant now and fits — no scrolling through listings.
WhatsApp me your requirements →You have seen the bands above. Price it high and it sits empty, price it low and you lose — I price it off what actually gets signed, then find you the tenant.
WhatsApp me to price the rent →Want to know what yours would sell for today? I value it off recent transactions around here, not off what portals are asking.
WhatsApp me for a valuation →Who rents here
This is the part that matters. Read the Johor income figure alone and you will get this wrong — a large share of the people here are paid in Singapore dollars.
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. Sutera Utama is about 30 minutes by car to the JB CIQ (in the traffic when queried on the afternoon of 19 October). This round almost every condo listing was at The Seed, and the landed was mostly townhouses.
2022 · RM8,232
2024 · RM8,977
- Condos are almost all The Seed, mostly three-bedrooms.
- Landed listings are few, mostly townhouses and cluster homes.
- The shophouse district is large, and most shop listings were whole new shophouses.
- The JB CIQ is quicker to reach than the Second Link (queried the afternoon of 19 October: about 30 minutes against about 38).
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 Sutera Utama. Applying a district-wide ratio to a single neighbourhood would be wrong, so this is left blank until sub-district data can be found.
Projects near Sutera Utama, JB
Buying to live in or to let? Start with these — new launches first. Each page carries the advertising permit number, the filed price band and certified construction progress.
What is around
- Sutera Mall — Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4
- Jalan Sutera Tanjung commercial strip — Restaurants, clinics, tuition centres
- SMK Taman Sutera — National secondary, Jalan Pahlawan 4
- SJK(C) Kuo Kuang 2 — Chinese-medium primary, Jalan Persisiran Sungai Danga
- 100 Lambs International School — International, Jalan Persisiran Sutera Danga 1
- New Bridge International School — International, Jalan Persisiran Sutera Danga 1
- Klinik Sutera — Clinic
- Permai Polyclinics — Clinic, Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/2
- Hospital Pakar Skudai — Private hospital, neighbouring Skudai
Compiled from the institutions' own Google Maps entries; addresses checked on 19 October 2026. For the real distance and drive time from a specific address, ask me and I will work it out from where you would be living.
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
Sources
- Condo and landed rents — PropertyGuru rental listings, searched for "Taman Sutera Utama" and "Skudai", first 3 pages of residential and first 2 of condos for each, read 19 October 2026; 34 listings after filtering by address and removing duplicates. Asking prices, not transacted rents.
- Shop rents — PropertyGuru commercial rentals, read 19 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.
- Taman Sutera Utama to the JB CIQ drive time — Google Maps directions, queried around 4 pm on Monday 19 October 2026: about 30 minutes, 19.8 km, in the traffic at that time. Public map.
- Coordinates, schools, hospitals and malls — the institutions' Google Maps entries, checked 19 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.
Compiled by Simon Wang · licensed agent REN 56506 · last updated 2026-10-19