Top 5 Rental Website in Malaysia
As a landlord who wants to rent out your property by yourself or as an agent or broker, there are many ways to advertise your property, from the very traditional way of printing the advertisement with your phone number and business logo out and stick on the bus stop and phone booth near your property which is an ugly sight and yet illegal, to a more efficient way of posting it online.
We will not share the 20th century way here but the online method – website or online marketplace. Here are the top 5 websites in Malaysia in no particular order that you can list your property for free.
IBILIK (www.ibilik.my)
“Bilik” means room in the Malay language; as its name stated, this is a room rental website. Presence in 5 ASEAN countries, iBilik is one of the best room rental websites in the region in terms of daily traffic and the number of listing by landlords. Besides room rental, it also has short-stay rent listing.
iBilik offers landlords unlimited posting with one restriction – only one picture for each listing to keep the page clean and clear. You may leave your contact number in the property description, the interested tenant may contact you by Whatsapp or phone call for inquiry and viewing, iBilik doesn’t involve anything after listing.
SPEEDHOME (www.speedhome.com)
One first look at Speedhome is a very neat and intuitive website. It has very specific features to ease the renting process e.g. standardized e-agreement, an easy scheme that lets the tenant pay zero deposit upfront when renting your unit, whereas Speedhome will ensure on-time payment by charging the tenant’s credit card and paying to you. Speedhome even guarantees that they will keep paying you a 2-month rental even if the tenant default on the payment. However, this starts only from the 4th month of the lease term with strict terms and conditions.
Listing a rent on this platform, the landlord must agree to give out 50% off on the first month’s rent to the tenant; the idea is to pass half of the savings that are supposed to be given to the agent to the tenant instead.
ROOMZ (https://roomz.asia)
Roomz started from a room-for-rent listing platform in 2016, it is no doubt the fastest growing room-for-rent portal in Malaysia, with hundreds of new listings posted by landlords every day. You may easily search for rooms with the condo name, area, or road name; the website also tells the landlord preferred tenant in gender, race, single, or couple.
As a landlord who invests only in the property but not a full-time job, the simplified posting process by Roomz is definitely what you should go for. Give it a try!
Its auto-refresh feature lets advertisers repost their advertisements automatically without accessing the site. This way, the user can keep their post on the top page, gaining the best exposure.
LAND PLUS (www.land.plus)
Land.plus is gaining traction recently. It is a portal for selling, renting, and property auctions. Of course, it is a good place to list your room rentals. It has a good feature where they provide a brief description of each property and surrounding township to look out for, which is a good feature for those new to or unfamiliar with the area.
MUDAH (www.mudah.my)
In a classified marketplace like Craiglist, you can advertise anything that includes property rent. You may post up to 6 listings for free; more than that, you need to pay. If you wish your listing standouts to rent faster, you may use Mudah Premium Services like Bump Ad, Featured Ad, and Urgent that cost less than RM 64/month/listing.
Besides the top 5 room rental free listing websites in Malaysia, we also have another review about Top 5 Room for Rent Free Posting Websites in Singapore; check it out if you have room listing to post in Singapore too.
