Pattaya rental utilities: electricity, water and internet

Electricity, water, internet in Pattaya: what 1,518 listings say

On 30 October 2026 at 10:25 am (Thailand time), RENT KHA counts 1,518 rental listings online in and around Pattaya, posted between 16 and 29 October 2026 by 653 posters: 916 condos, 529 houses, townhouses and villas, and 46 apartments. 1,447 of them give a rent, with a median of ฿24,000 a month. We read the full text of each one, in English and in Thai, to count what it says about the bills: electricity, water, internet, TV and common fees.

The rent is almost always written down; the bills almost never are. 109 listings say how electricity is billed, or 7%; the other 1,409 (93%) say nothing. 72 listings (5%) say how water is paid, and every one of them also covers electricity. 161 (11%) mention internet. 1,277 listings, or 84%, say nothing about any of the three.

Condos say a little more than houses: 82 of the 916 condos state how electricity is billed (9%), against 24 of the 529 houses, townhouses and villas (5%) and 2 of the 46 apartments. For internet it is 126 condos (14%) against 34 houses (6%). What the listing leaves out is a question for before the viewing, and a line for the lease before you pay.

Method: the words are searched in English and in Thai (“government rate” and ไฟหลวง for electricity at the public rate, น้ำนิติ for water paid to the building office), then checked against extracts. A listing leaves RENT KHA 45 days after its last repost, or as soon as its poster marks it rented, and only listings with a photo are counted, as on the Listings page.

• Condos for rent
• Rents by area

Electricity: public rate, fixed price per unit or included in the rent

Of the 109 listings that cover electricity, 83 bill it at the public rate: “government rate” in English, ไฟหลวง or ไฟฟ้าหลวง in Thai (32 listings use one of these words), or the electricity company’s bill, which 9 listings call “PEA”. They are 62 condos, 20 houses and 1 other property. The tenant then pays what the meter’s bill says, with no price set by the owner.

8 listings set a price per unit, the kilowatt-hour on the meter: ฿6 in 3 listings, ฿7 in 3, ฿8 in 2. They are 6 condos, 1 house and 1 apartment, rented from ฿5,500 to ฿45,000 a month. 7 listings just say “by the meter” or “actual usage”, with no rate; 5 say electricity is not included, without saying at what price; 1 has it paid to the building office.

Only 5 listings put electricity in the rent. They are 5 condos in Jomtien, from 3 posters, rented from ฿13,000 to ฿45,000 a month, all with a one-month minimum lease, and water is included too. The lease length shows in the numbers: of the 104 listings with a minimum lease of 3 months or less, 14 cover electricity, including those 5 that include it; of the 908 listings with a minimum lease of 7 months or more, 69 cover it, 64 at the public rate, and none includes it.

The condos that write “public rate” are also among the cheaper ones: a median rent of ฿13,000 over 61 rents, against ฿18,000 for the condos that say nothing about electricity (820 rents). What the lease should say: the rate (public rate on the bill, or so many baht per unit), who the bill is paid to, and whose name the meter is in. Ask for the unit’s recent bills too: they show a real month of use, air conditioning included.

• Lease of 3 months max
• Monthly or yearly lease

Water: the building office in condos, the public rate in houses

72 listings say how water is billed. In a condo it is most often the building office: 26 listings, all condos, have it paid to the juristic office (นิติบุคคลอาคารชุด, “นิติ” in the listings), the body that manages the condominium; in Thai this is written น้ำนิติ. In a house it is most often the public rate: 17 listings cite it for water, 14 of them houses, townhouses or villas and 3 condos.

19 other listings give only a price per unit (18 condos, 1 house), 5 say “by the meter” with no rate, and 5 include water in the rent (the 5 Jomtien condos with a one-month lease). In all, 21 listings give a water price per unit: ฿40 in 9, ฿35 in 6, ฿38 in 3, and ฿25, ฿34 or ฿37 in one each. The unit is the cubic metre on the meter; one listing writes “40 THB/Cubic”.

The two bills often go together: 23 listings put electricity at the public rate and water with the building office (“ไฟหลวง น้ำนิติ”), and 17 use the public rate for both, 14 of them houses. What the lease should say: the water price per unit, and who it is paid to, the owner or the building office. Have the water meter reading written down on move-in day, like the electricity one.

• One-bedroom condos

Internet and TV: included in the rent or paid separately

161 listings mention internet, or 11%. 94 say it is included or free; 18, all condos, charge for it separately or say it is not included; the other 49 mention it without saying who pays. Condos mention it more than houses: 126 condos, 69 of them with internet included, against 34 houses, 24 of them included.

When internet is extra, 8 listings give its price: from ฿500 to ฿790 a month (฿500 in 2, ฿530, ฿534 in 2, ฿650, ฿750 and ฿790). 12 listings mention fibre, and 6 give a speed, from 300 Mbps to 1 Gbps: 4 houses and 2 condos. “Wi-Fi” does not say everything: ask whether the connection is the unit’s own or the common areas’, and whose name the subscription is in.

Cable TV appears in 17 listings: 7 say it is free, 6 not included (5 of them under the same text from 2 posters, which leaves internet and cable out of the rent). If you work from home, ask for the speed, the provider and who calls for repairs when it fails, and get what is included written into the lease.

• Furnished condo: what’s included

Houses and villas: common fees, solar panels, upkeep

In houses the bills show even less: 24 of the 529 listings for houses, townhouses and villas say how electricity is paid, 20 at the public rate, and 17 cover water, 14 at the public rate. The rest has to be asked.

The housing estate’s common fees appear in 20 house listings: 7 say there are none, 6 say they are included in the rent, and 6 give an amount, from ฿500 to ฿700 a month (฿700 in 5). On the condo side, 9 listings mention them: 8 say there is nothing to pay on top of the rent (fees included, paid by the owner or none at all), 1 gives ฿634. If the listing is silent, ask whether the fees come on top of the rent, and how much.

12 house and villa listings mention solar panels. 7 of them, posted by 7 posters at the same rent of ฿55,000, all describe a three-bedroom villa with a 10 kW system: most likely the same property. 2 other listings, villas at ฿30,000 in Huay Yai, promise about 50% off the electricity bill, with no bill to back it: ask for the last few months’ bills. 2 listings for houses at ฿28,000 offer free air-conditioner cleaning every 6 months; elsewhere, ask who pays for it before you sign.

• Houses for rent
• House for rent in Pattaya

Electricity, water, internet: the questions to ask before signing

For electricity: which rate, the public rate on the bill or a fixed price per unit, and how much? Who is the bill paid to, the owner, the agent, the building office or the company, and whose name is the meter in? Can you see the last few months’ bills? For a one-month lease, is electricity included, and up to what usage?

For water: the price per unit, paid to the owner or to the building office. For internet: included or not, what speed, which provider, whose name the subscription is in. Then cable TV, the common fees, and for a house the upkeep of the pool and garden.

On move-in day, photograph the electricity and water meters, write the readings into the move-in check and have it signed. The rates and what is included go into the lease: the article on the rental agreement covers the other clauses to check.

On RENT KHA, the “Building or keyword” field on the Listings page also searches each listing’s English summary (“internet”, “electricity”), and any filtered search saves as an alert. Access, at ฿75 a month instead of ฿100, lets you message the poster directly to ask these questions and shows the contacts they published, with e-mail alerts; at ฿150 instead of ฿200, the Professional plan also sends every new matching listing on Telegram, and promotes one property a month for those renting out their own.

• Rental agreement: clauses to check
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