Landlords
Let your property for one month’s rent, ¾ of a month on renewal
Screened tenants, a stamped tenancy, a photographed inventory, and an optional management service if you are not in the country. Plus an honest calculation of what you will actually net.
What the letting fee covers
- Rental appraisal against tenancies actually signed in the block.
- Photography, listing and accompanied viewings.
- Tenant screening: employment, previous landlord, and identity.
- Tenancy agreement drafted and stamped.
- Inventory schedule with photographs, signed by both sides.
- Deposit collection, utility transfers and handover.
One month’s rent plus SST for a twelve-month tenancy, three quarters of a month on renewal. Management, if you want it, is 6% of the monthly rent plus SST and covers rent collection, repairs coordination and quarterly inspections.
The three things that cost landlords money here
Pricing on the asking market
Advertised rents in a block are not signed rents. A unit priced RM200 above the last three tenancies sits empty for two months, which costs more than the RM2,400 a year it was chasing.
No inventory schedule
Almost every deposit dispute we are asked to referee comes down to nobody photographing the unit at the start.
Forgetting the maintenance charge
On island strata the landlord pays it, and at RM0.33 psf it takes over a month’s rent a year out of a 1,200 square foot unit before anything else.
Gross yield is a listing number
What your unit actually nets
Put in your own figures. Every deduction is shown, so you can argue with any of them.
Net rent calculator
Maintenance, sinking fund, quit rent, assessment, letting fee and a realistic vacancy allowance.
Where the yield is
Gross yields by area, mid 2026
Gross, before the deductions above. The prime seafront pays for itself in capital growth and liquidity rather than income — if you are buying for yield, the south of the island and the mainland do the job better.
Kelawei Realty
What would your unit let for?
Send us the block, the size and the condition. We will give you a rental appraisal against what has actually let in the building, not what is currently advertised in it.