Area guide
Sihanoukville
Cambodia
Homes ask a median $220,000, +18% against Cambodia. Renting runs $1,000 a month, a 5.5% gross yield on that price.
Median asking price
$220,000
Middle 60% $74k to $800k
+18% vs CambodiaMedian asking rent
$1,000 /mo
Middle 60% $450 to $3k
+33% vs CambodiaPrice per m²
$1,742
From 88 homes stating a floor area
Gross yield
5.5%
Median rent × 12 over median price
Where it sits
The districts of Sihanoukville, side by side
Every figure below is measured the same way, at the same moment, for all 6 of them. That is the only thing that makes a number like this mean anything.
Median asking priceWhat half the homes ask less than
$187kCambodia
$220kSihanoukville
Kampong Saom, Koh Rong, Prey Nob, Kampong Seila, Daun Penh carry no dots: fewer than 30 priced listings is not enough to publish a median, so the figure is withheld rather than guessed at.
Your money here
What a budget actually reaches in Sihanoukville
Drag the figure. The bars are the homes listed in Sihanoukville right now, grouped by what they ask.
$220,000
104 of the 212 homes for sale in Sihanoukville ask this or less - 49% of what is on the market here.
That sits inside the middle half, just above the typical asking price of $220,000.
190 of the 212 homes for sale carry a price. The rest are price on application: counted as supply, never inside a median.
Compared
The districts of Sihanoukville, side by side
Two counts cannot tell you which one to live in. Tap a heading to re-rank.
| Sihanoukville | 151 | $180,000 | $1,579 | 94 | $1,000 | 6.7% |
| Kampong Saom | 21 | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| Koh Rong | 17 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prey Nob | 13 | — | — | 0 | — | — |
| Kampong Seila | 9 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Daun Penh | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
A dash is not a zero. A median needs 30 priced listings behind it and a yield needs 30 on each side; 5 of these fall under that on at least one measure, so those figures are withheld rather than printed off a handful of homes.
Straight questions
The questions people ask about Sihanoukville
Answered from the listings themselves, and recomputed every morning.
How much does it cost to buy in Sihanoukville?
The typical home for sale asks $220,000. Half of the 212 on the market ask less than that, and the middle half sit between $73,900 and $800,000.
How much is rent in Sihanoukville?
The typical asking rent is $1,000 a month, out of 100 rentals listed. The middle half ask between $450 and $2,850.
Is Sihanoukville expensive?
Against Cambodia as a whole, homes here ask 18% more.
What return do landlords get in Sihanoukville?
Median rent over a year against the median asking price is 5.5%, before any costs. It compares asking prices with asking rents, not signed contracts.
What kind of property is for sale in Sihanoukville?
Mostly house, apartment / condo / land, villa. Of the 212 homes for sale, 71 are listed as house.
Living here
What Sihanoukville is actually like
Sihanoukville, known as Kampong Som in Khmer, sits on the Kingdoms’ peninsula of the pristine southern coast on the Gulf of Thailand. As the fourth-largest city in Cambodia, it is a key hub for trade, business and tourism and it has been undergoing massive development. The coastal city also is the capital of Preah Sihanouk province.
Since around 2017, Sihanoukville has seen rapid development, mainly due to skyrocketing tourism and foreign investment from China. The city is seen as a vital cog in China’s One Belt, One Road initiative.
Continued demand for land has pushed up the prices, to a point where it was higher than sought after beachfront land prices in Thailand and Vietnam. Meanwhile, the tourism markets in Thailand and Vietnam are more developed than Cambodia although it is constantly being improved upon. Increase in tourism, trade and infrastructure improvements are driving an increase in rent of accommodation and commercial premises in Sihanoukville. This has caused some residents and business owners to relocate outside of the city centre while the huge development plan is in progress upgrading roads, drainage, access to amenities and at the international airport and seaport.
The city is earmarked as a city of the future and a potential jewel in the crown of Cambodia and SEA. With its coastal and serene landscape and easy access to the tropical island paradise, Sihanoukville’s strategic development is of vital importance to Cambodia.
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From here
On the market in Sihanoukville right now
1 to 2homes for sale outnumber rentals. People here buy far more often than they rent.
4listings can be walked through on video before you visit in person.
88 of 212homes for sale state a floor area, which is what makes a price per square metre a real division.
Straight answers
What these figures are, and what we will not print
Where these figures come from, and where they stop.
Asking, not sold
Every price here is what a seller or landlord advertises on this site today. Cambodia publishes no register of transaction prices, so nobody can honestly print what homes actually sold for.
Why there is no price chart
Our historical figures are not measured consistently enough to compare one year with another, so we would rather show no trend line than a misleading one.
Small samples are withheld
A median needs 30 priced listings behind it, and a yield needs 30 on each side. Below that the figure is a dash. A dash is an admission; a number would be a claim.
Per square metre is computed
Price divided by floor area, every time, over the homes that state one. The per-square-metre figure agents type into the listing form is never used here.
These counts match the search
Every count is what the search results page returns for the same area, because it is the same query.
Written by people
The sections under "Living here" were researched, written and photographed for this site. Nothing on this page is generated prose.