Phuket Yield Index: Same-Unit Gross Rental Yield by Zone and Property Type (2026-08)

Gross rental yield and price-to-rent ratio for residential property on Phuket, Thailand, measured on 1,108 listings that carry both an asking sale price and an asking long-term rent on the same unit. Why the sampling matters: the usual way to state a market yield divides a market-wide median rent by a market-wide median sale price. On this catalogue that method returns roughly 14%, because the rental pool skews toward cheaper stock and the sale pool toward more expensive stock, so numerator and denominator describe different properties. Measured per unit, the island median is 7.82% gross (interquartile range 6.61-9.25%). Every figure here is the median of a per-unit ratio, never a ratio of medians. Coverage: an island-wide aggregate, six property types, thirteen of the fifteen tourist zones, and twenty zone-by-type cells. A cell is reported only where it holds at least fifteen dual-listed properties; per-cell counts are published so thin slices can be judged rather than trusted. Kata and Mai Khao fall below that floor and are absent rather than estimated. These are gross figures on asking prices, before tax, common-area fees, management, vacancy and maintenance, and they cover long-term tenancies of thirty days or more only. Thailand publishes no open register of property transactions, so asking price is the observable quantity. The main selection effect is stated in the method note and not corrected for: an owner who lists a property for sale and for rent simultaneously is holding an option open and may price one side above the market. Refreshed quarterly as dated files, so a citation keeps resolving to the numbers as published.