A mature residential area on the north side of Johor Bahru, opened in 1992, with Jalan Daya as its main road. Mostly single- and two-storey terraces, with the commercial streets along Jalan Sagu and Jalan Rumbia. About 27 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.
Condo rents
RM850 – 2,300
Landed
RM1,600 – 5,200
Shop lots
Ground floor RM2,500 – 8,500
To the checkpoint
~27 min drive
The rents are asking prices, not transacted rents — the two are rarely the same. Sources at the foot of the page.
An asking price is what the owner wants. The signed rent is what gets negotiated.
I keep a current list of what is actually vacant here and what it really signs at.
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.
What these numbers are, before you read them
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 21 October 2026, 50 PropertyGuru listings filtered by address to this area (duplicates removed).
Layout
Asking rent
Listings
Note
Studio
RM1,400
1
KSL Residence @ Daya (1); Thin sample — read with caution
2 bed
RM850 – 1,600
5
ARC @ Austin Hills (3)
3 bed
RM1,500 – 2,300
7
KSL Residence @ Daya (3), ARC @ Austin Hills (2); Largest sample on this page
Single room
RM550
1
Not comparable with whole units — read separately
The bottom of the 2- and 3-bed rows (RM850 – 1,500) is low-cost flats around Jalan Nipah and Jalan Sagu; the rest are serviced apartments at ARC @ Austin Hills and KSL Residence @ Daya. Despite the Austin in its name, ARC @ Austin Hills is at Jalan Sagu 36. Bathroom counts cannot be split out.
Landed homes
Read 21 October 2026
House type
Asking rent
Listings
Note
Single-storey terrace · 3 – 4 bed
RM1,600 – 2,500
15
Largest sample in this table
1.5-storey terrace · 3 – 4 bed
RM2,200
2
Thin sample — read with caution
2-storey terrace · 3 – 4 bed
RM2,200 – 2,750
13
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2-storey terrace · 5+ bed
RM1,800
1
Thin sample — read with caution
Terrace (storeys not stated) · 3 – 4 bed
RM1,800 – 2,800
3
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Cluster house
RM4,000 – 5,200
2
Greenwoods Residence @ Taman Daya (2); Thin sample — read with caution
Whether you are looking to rent or to let your own home, get in touch.
Shop lots
Floor
Asking rent
Size
Listings
Ground floor
RM2,500 – 8,500
1,000 – 1,540 sq ft
7
First and second floor
RM2,000
1,540 sq ft
2
Single-storey shop · whole unit
RM3,200
1,400 sq ft
1
Floor not stated
RM1,400 – 8,500
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8
Each of 18 listings was read to split it by floor, mostly on Jalan Sagu and Jalan Rumbia. Ground floors come in two tiers: RM2,500 in double-storey shophouses, and RM8,500 in a row of three-storey shophouses at Jalan Sagu 18 (several agents list this price — possibly one or two units). Upper floors ask RM2,000.
Industrial
Taman Daya has a small patch of terrace factories (around Jalan Bertam): this round's PropertyGuru listings ask RM4,300 for 2,400 sq ft, with several agents listing the same price. Asking prices.
Now you have seen the rents — which one are you?
Renting, letting or selling in Taman Daya, JB — come straight to me for any of the three.
01 · RENTING
You want to rent here
Send me your budget, bedroom count and move-in date. I will send back what is vacant now and fits — no scrolling through listings.
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.
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.
The point: the tenants here earn in Singapore dollars, not ringgit
Malaysians who cross to work each day
Around 400,000
Across both the Causeway and the Second Link; figure reported in 2023
What they typically earn
SGD 1,900 – 3,000
About RM6,100 – 9,600 at the exchange rate at the time of the report
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. Taman Daya is about 27 minutes by car to the JB CIQ (in the traffic when queried at midday on 21 October). About seven in ten residential listings this round were landed, mostly single- and two-storey terraces.
Johor Bahru district median household income (2024)
RM8,977
Mean RM10,975. This is the whole district, not this area alone.
Trend (median)
2019 · RM7,342
2022 · RM8,232
2024 · RM8,977
Rents track incomes. This line is the floor for judging whether rents still have room.
How this area actually lives
Landed is mostly single- and two-storey terraces, with many listings around Jalan Pinang, Jalan Nibong and Jalan Rumbia.
Condos are few — mainly ARC @ Austin Hills, KSL Residence @ Daya and some low-cost flats.
The Jalan Sagu area has many shophouses and plenty of shop listings.
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 Taman Daya. Applying a district-wide ratio to a single neighbourhood would be wrong, so this is left blank until sub-district data can be found.
IF YOU ARE BUYING
Projects near Taman Daya, 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.
Will it let once you buy? That comes down to the block, the floor and the layout — projects in one area let at very different speeds. Tell me which one you are looking at.
Toppen Shopping Centre — Jalan Desa Harmonium, neighbouring area
Schools
SK Taman Daya 2 — National primary, Jalan Nipah
SK Taman Daya 3 — Jalan Sagu 36
SMK Taman Daya — National secondary, Jalan Rumbia 39
Healthcare
Several private clinics in the area — Around Jalan Pinang 52 and Jalan Sagu
Hospital Sultan Ismail — Government hospital, Jalan Mutiara Emas Utama, neighbouring Mount Austin
Compiled from the institutions' own Google Maps entries; addresses checked on 21 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.
Renting, letting, selling or buying?
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, searches for "Taman Daya" (3 pages of residential plus 2 of condos), read 21 October 2026; filtered by address to this area, with a unit listed by several agents counted once (29 removed), leaving 50 listings; listings at the Taman Daya in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur were 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.
Taman Daya to the JB CIQ drive time — Google Maps directions, queried around 12:30 pm on Wednesday 21 October 2026: about 27 minutes, 18.3 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.
Opening year (1992) and main road (Jalan Daya) — Wikipedia, Taman Daya 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.
Compiled by Simon Wang · licensed agent REN 56506 · last updated 2026-10-21
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