Taman Pelangi, JB
A mature residential area on the north side of Johor Bahru town, about 8 minutes by car to the JB CIQ. Mostly landed — single- and two-storey terraces and semi-detached homes — plus the shophouse rows around Jalan Sri Pelangi and Jalan Serampang and the new Pelangi Avenue. 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 Taman Pelangi, 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 17 October 2026, 9 PropertyGuru listings filtered by address to this area (duplicates removed).
Taman Pelangi is mostly landed; the only condos listed this round were two blocks along Jalan Kuning, with almost nothing below three bedrooms. Bathroom counts cannot be split out — listings state the bedroom count only.
Landed homes
Read 17 October 2026
Single-storey terraces are in short supply around here — if you own one, it will find a tenant. Whether you are looking to rent or to let your own home, get in touch.
Shop lots
Each listing was read to split it by floor. In the older shophouses the ground floor is asked at RM8,500 – 12,000 while the second floor and above go for only RM1,200 – 3,000 — downstairs asks roughly three to ten times upstairs, the figure worth noting here. At the new four-storey Pelangi Avenue, ground floors are asked at RM12,000 – 13,000 and a first floor at RM8,000. Whole three- to four-storey buildings range from RM5,000 to RM35,000, and the gap is fit-out: the one asking RM35,000, on Jalan Serampang, is fully renovated with a lift and a walk-in cold room. The first-floor and whole two-storey rows have only two listings each — read with caution.
Industrial
There is no industrial land in Taman Pelangi — it is residential plus commercial shophouses. Searching PropertyGuru commercial rentals for "Taman Pelangi" this round, every factory listing that came up was outside the area (Tampoi, Skudai, Ulu Tiram, Pasir Gudang, Kulai and others). Which industrial areas are closest, and at what rents, is still to come.
Now you have seen the rents — which one are you?
Renting, letting or selling in Taman Pelangi, 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. Taman Pelangi is about 8 minutes by car to the JB CIQ, and it is mostly whole landed houses.
2022 · RM8,232
2024 · RM8,977
- Mostly landed: single-storey, 1.5-storey and 2-storey terraces and semi-detached homes. Condos are limited to a few blocks along Jalan Kuning.
- Landed homes are not only let to families — this round included whole houses let as staff hostels, kindergartens and offices, and homes on commercial title.
- Shops cluster in the older rows around Jalan Sri Pelangi, Jalan Serampang and Jalan Maju, plus the new four-storey Pelangi Avenue.
- The crossing used is the Causeway (JB CIQ), about 8 minutes by car — a different commuter group from the Bukit Indah side, which crosses the Second Link to Tuas.
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 Pelangi. 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 Taman Pelangi, 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
- Plaza Pelangi — Jalan Kuning
- Pelangi Leisure Mall — Jalan Serampang, with a Giant hypermarket and a bowling alley
- Pelangi Avenue — Jalan Sri Pelangi, newly completed four-storey shophouses
- SK Taman Pelangi — National primary, Jalan Kuning
- SMK Taman Pelangi — National secondary, Jalan Nila 6
- Foon Yew High School — Independent Chinese secondary, Jalan Ibrahim Sultan, neighbouring Stulang Laut
- Southern Medical Clinic (Taman Pelangi) — 24-hour clinic, Jalan Sri Pelangi 4
- Ai Clinic Taman Pelangi — Clinic, Jalan Perang
- Hospital Sultanah Aminah — Government hospital, in the city centre
Compiled from the institutions' own Google Maps entries; addresses checked in October 2026. Foon Yew High School is outside this area; it is listed because many families look for a home near it. 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 rents — PropertyGuru, "Taman Pelangi" condo rentals, first 2 pages, read 17 October 2026; 9 listings after filtering by address and removing duplicates. Asking prices, not transacted rents.
- Landed rents — PropertyGuru, "Taman Pelangi" residential rentals, first 3 pages, read 17 October 2026: 60 listings, 53 after removing duplicates; plus one commercial-title house from the commercial listings. Asking prices.
- Shop rents — PropertyGuru commercial rentals for "Taman Pelangi" and "Johor Bahru City Centre", first 3 pages of each, read 17 October 2026. 48 shop listings in this area, each read to split by floor; 33 after removing duplicates — 31 in the shop table, 1 commercial-title house in the landed table, and 1 pair of joined four-storey units at Pelangi Avenue (RM28,000) left out as not comparable with single units. 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.
- Drive time to the JB CIQ — Google Maps directions, queried on the morning of Saturday 17 October 2026: about 8 minutes, 3.5 km, in ordinary traffic. Coordinates — Google Maps, 19 October. Public map.
- Schools, clinics and malls — the institutions' Google Maps entries, addresses checked 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 population and the ethnic breakdown once sub-district data can be found (the statistics department goes down to the district and Bandar Johor Bahru only, and which unit Taman Pelangi falls in is unconfirmed); confirm the mukim. 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