Tak isn't one city — it's a border province where nearly everything renters need sits in central Mae Sot, with a border-trade market, an industrial zone and a genuinely separate provincial-capital town nearby. Here's how the four break down, and what we could and couldn't verify on rent.
Tak doesn't organize itself around neighborhoods the way a single city does — it organizes around the border. Nearly every renter lands in Mae Sot Town Centre & Yod Khao Road, the only part of the province with registered condos and the closest housing to the hospital and airport. Rim Moei, a few kilometers west, is the border-trade market beside the Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge — a workplace, not a residential district. The Tha Sai Luat Special Economic Zone, near Mae Sot Airport, is an industrial and logistics estate housing SEZ staff rather than long-term renters. And Mueang Tak, the provincial capital, is a genuinely separate town roughly 80 km east on the Ping River, built around government offices rather than border trade. Rent data is thin outside central Mae Sot — where we couldn't verify a figure, we've said so rather than guessed.
An approximate look at where Mae Sot town center, Rim Moei, the SEZ and Mueang Tak sit relative to each other — note the roughly 80 km gap between Mae Sot and the provincial capital.
Central Mae Sot around Yod Khao Road and the Robinson Lifestyle Mae Sot mall is where almost all of the province's rentable housing stock actually sits. Both of Tak's registered condominiums — Park Condo Dream Mae Sot and The Rize Condominium Mae Sot — are here, within a short walk of each other, close to Mae Sot Hospital and a roughly 10-minute drive from Mae Sot Airport. This is the default base for anyone working in Mae Sot's trade, aid or teaching sectors: walkable to the covered market and restaurants, with the widest choice of studio and one-bedroom rentals in the province. Outside this pocket, condo supply effectively disappears and the market shifts to houses and townhomes.
A few kilometers west of central Mae Sot, Rim Moei is the border-trade district that gives the town its economic identity: a market dealing in imported goods and woodwork, informal river crossings, and the first Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge (opened 1997) linking Mae Sot to Myawaddy across the Moei River. Treat the crossing itself as a live variable rather than a fixture: the Mae Sot–Myawaddy checkpoint was closed from around August 2025 amid fighting on the Myanmar side and only reopened at the end of May 2026, and Thailand cut cross-border electricity, internet and fuel to several Myanmar border areas in February 2025 during the scam-compound crackdown. This is a commercial and trading zone first — daily life here revolves around the market and cross-border logistics rather than residential rentals, and no structured rental-portal data exists for the area. It is also the first place the Moei floods: the river came over its bank under the first bridge in July 2024 and into the Rim Moei market again on 21 August 2026. Anyone whose work is tied to the border crossing itself typically still bases their home in central Mae Sot and commutes the short distance out to Rim Moei.
Tha Sai Luat subdistrict, which also contains Mae Sot Airport, is where the Thai government designated a Special Economic Zone in 2015 around the Wang Takhian area — roughly 2,200 rai of land, with about 800 rai managed by the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand as a dedicated industrial estate, alongside customs facilities and bonded warehouses supporting the Thai–Myanmar trade corridor. Tha Sai Luat is also where the second Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge lands: opened on 30 October 2019 at Wang Takhian, 760 m long (515 m on the Thai side, 245 m on the Myanmar side) and 17.2 m wide with two lanes and its own border-control facilities, built to take freight traffic off the older 1997 bridge at Rim Moei. Kilometer zero of Highway 12 — the East–West Economic Corridor road that runs from here to Mukdahan on the Lao border — sits at the bridgehead in this subdistrict. This is a workplace zone rather than a residential district: factory, logistics and customs staff are the primary occupants of what housing exists nearby, and no published rental data exists for the area specifically. It sits on the western side of Mae Sot, between the town center and the border.
Mueang Tak, the province's administrative capital, is a genuinely separate town roughly 86 km east of Mae Sot on Highway 12 — not a neighborhood within the same city. (The Tak–Mae Sot road was part of Highway 105 until the Department of Highways renumbered it on 1 October 2008 to complete Highway 12 as a single Mae Sot–Mukdahan route, so older maps and guides still label it 105; Highway 105 today is the separate mountain road running north from Mae Sot towards Mae Ramat and Mae Sariang.) It sits on the Ping River and hosts the Tak Provincial Hall and the district government offices, with a riverside park by the 200th Anniversary Rattanakosin Memorial Bridge and the century-old Trok Ban Chin market community nearby. Unlike Mae Sot, it has no border-trade economy and none of the province's registered condominiums; anyone locating here is typically doing so for provincial-government or transport-hub work rather than the trade, NGO or teaching roles that draw people to Mae Sot. Rental stock here is single-room apartments and dorms rather than condos: RentHub listed 12 buildings in Mueang Tak district in November 2026, mostly asking 1,500–3,500 THB a month in Pa Mamuang, Mai Ngam and Nam Ruem subdistricts. Those are asking prices, several from listings years old, so confirm in person rather than assuming Mae Sot's figures.
| Area | Best for | Rent data |
|---|---|---|
| Mae Sot Town Centre & Yod Khao Road | The only area with registered condos; walkable market core | Studio/1BR ~3,000–6,000 THB/mo (est.) |
| Rim Moei & the Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge | Border trade market on the Moei River, west of town | No confirmed rental listings — mostly trade premises, confirm locally |
| Tha Sai Luat & the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone | Industrial estate & logistics zone, near Mae Sot Airport | No confirmed rental listings — houses/staff housing, confirm locally |
| Mueang Tak — the Provincial Capital (Ping River) | A separate town roughly 80 km east; government offices, not border trade | Apartment/dorm rooms ~1,500–3,500 THB/mo listed (est.); no condos |
Tak barely registers on the big property portals, so on 10 November 2026 we read every Tak listing on RentHub, the Thai room-rental site that local apartment and dorm owners actually post on, and checked both Mae Sot condos on PropertyHub and Hipflat. Everything below is an asking price posted by the building itself, not a quote, and several listings have not been updated in years. Treat the figures as indicative ranges and confirm in person.
RentHub lists 27 apartment and dorm buildings across Tak province, 12 of them in Mae Sot district. Most monthly rooms ask roughly 2,500–5,500 THB: เพชรเจริญ (Phet Charoen) Apartment on Rat Uthit Road at 2,500–4,000 THB; บ้านคงสมบูรณ์ (Ban Khong Somboon), Soi 5 off Intharakhiri Road, at 3,000–3,300 THB; เเทมรินด์ (Tamarind) Apartment off Intharakhiri Road and บ้านสักทอง (Ban Sak Thong) on Chidwana Road at about 4,000 THB; คิงโฮเทล (King Hotel), behind the Thai Life Insurance office on Asia Road, at 4,000–4,500 THB monthly; and Tempo Plus Apartment on Ban Mai Road at about 5,000 THB. The top of the list is a newly opened building, วันแม่สอด, on Ruam Raeng Road, asking 6,500–12,000 THB. Only four of the twelve Mae Sot listings (Tamarind, Ban Sak Thong, King Hotel and the new Ruam Raeng Road building) had been updated during 2026, so ring before you visit.
The two condos are a word-of-mouth market. On the same day PropertyHub showed zero rental listings for either Park Condo Dream Mae Sot or The Rize, and Hipflat showed no available units at Park Condo Dream, which it describes as two eight-story buildings with 270 units, opposite Robinson on Yod Khao Road. If you want a condo unit rather than an apartment room, ask at each building's juristic office and in local Facebook groups rather than waiting for a portal listing.
None of the RentHub listings sit in Tha Sai Luat, the subdistrict that holds both Friendship Bridges, the Rim Moei market and the SEZ. Not available here: we found no rental listing at all for either area, which matches what the area cards above say. People who work there rent in central Mae Sot.
The provincial capital has its own small market. RentHub lists 12 apartment and dorm buildings in Mueang Tak district, nearly all asking 1,500–3,500 THB a month and clustered in three subdistricts: Pa Mamuang (บ้านสุภัทรานนท์ at 1,600–2,300 THB and หอพักเอื้อมพร at 2,200–3,000 THB, both updated in October 2026), Mai Ngam along Phahonyothin Road (พีพีแมนชั่น and a second บ้านสุภัทรานนท์ branch at 2,000–2,500 THB) and Nam Ruem, where the dearest listing, บ้านพนาสันติ์, asks 2,800–4,000 THB but dates from 2016. These are single-room apartments and dorms. Not available here: we found no condo and no furnished serviced-apartment stock listed in Mueang Tak.
Mae Sot sits on the Moei River, and the river comes over its banks in heavy rainy seasons. Two recent examples: on 25–26 July 2024, after four days of rain, the Tha Sai Luat Subdistrict Municipality measured the Moei 1.2 m above its bank under the first Friendship Bridge; the Rim Moei market under the bridge flooded and sandbags went out to Ban Mae Pa Nuea in Mae Pa subdistrict. On 21 August 2026 overnight rain flash-flooded Mae Sot municipality from about 04:00: the Mae Sot Fresh Market took more than 30 cm of water, low-lying communities more than 50 cm, and the Moei rose more than a meter over its banks and into the Rim Moei market again. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation sent a cell-broadcast warning to Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts, and people along the river in Mae Pa, Mae Ku, Maha Wan, Tha Sai Luat, Mae Tao, Mae Kasa and Phra That Pha Daeng subdistricts were told to move belongings and vehicles to higher ground.
What that means by area. Rim Moei and the rest of Tha Sai Luat flood first. Central Mae Sot is not immune: the 2026 flood reached the town's main fresh market, so ground-floor rooms and ground-level parking are the exposure there, not upper-floor condo units. For Mueang Tak we did not find comparable reports in these two events, which is an absence of reporting rather than a clean record; ask locally about the Ping River.
Four questions for any Mae Sot landlord: (1) how high did the water come here on 21 August 2026; (2) did it reach the parking, and where do cars go when the warning comes; (3) which floor is the unit on, and where are the building's pumps and electrical boards; (4) does the lease say anything about rent if the room cannot be used after a flood.
Where these figures come from: RentHub, Tak apartments · RentHub, Mueang Tak apartments · PropertyHub, Park Condo Dream rentals · PropertyHub, The Rize rentals · Hipflat, Park Condo Dream · Khaosod English, 21 Aug 2026 · Thaiger, 26 Jul 2024
We have checked the 4 areas on this page that are wired into our listings feed — Mae Sot Town Centre & Yod Khao Road, Rim Moei & the Thai–Myanmar Friendship Bridge, Tha Sai Luat & the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone and Mueang Tak — the Provincial Capital (Ping River) — and have nothing in them today. We would rather show you an empty space than a home in another province.
For almost everyone, that's central Mae Sot around Yod Khao Road. It's the only part of the province with registered condominiums, the widest choice of rentals, and the closest housing to Mae Sot Hospital and the airport. Rim Moei and the Tha Sai Luat SEZ are workplaces and trade zones rather than places people choose to live, and Mueang Tak is a genuinely separate town best suited to people whose work is with the provincial government rather than Mae Sot's border-trade, NGO or teaching sectors.
Both of Tak's registered condominium projects — Park Condo Dream Mae Sot and The Rize Condominium Mae Sot — sit within a few hundred meters of each other on or near Yod Khao Road in central Mae Sot. Both are registered Thai condominiums, so foreign freehold ownership is available within each building's standard 49% foreign-ownership quota; confirm current quota availability per unit before committing.
Mae Sot is the province's commercial and trade center and where almost all condo and rental stock exists. Mueang Tak, the administrative capital, is a separate town about 86 km east on Highway 12 — the road older maps still label Highway 105, renumbered in 2008 — built around the Tak Provincial Hall and the Ping River rather than the Myanmar border trade. Choose Mueang Tak only if your work is specifically tied to the provincial government or its transport-hub role — otherwise Mae Sot has the housing options, hospital and airport.
Within central Mae Sot, motorbike taxis, songthaews and ride-hail cover daily life reasonably well. Reaching Rim Moei, the Tha Sai Luat SEZ or Mae Sot Airport is a short drive rather than a walk. Traveling to Mueang Tak is a separate, roughly 86 km trip on Highway 12 — four-laned out of Mae Sot, then a two-to-four-lane climb over the Thanon Thong Chai range — for which a car, bus or hired driver is necessary. It is not a same-city commute.
On RentHub in November 2026, Mueang Tak's 12 listed apartment and dorm buildings mostly asked 1,500–3,500 THB a month, clustered in Pa Mamuang, Mai Ngam and Nam Ruem subdistricts. Mae Sot's 12 listings mostly asked 2,500–5,500 THB, with one newly opened building on Ruam Raeng Road asking 6,500–12,000 THB. Neither of Mae Sot's two condos had a rental listing on PropertyHub that day. These are asking prices posted by the buildings, several not updated for years, so treat them as indicative and confirm in person.
Yes. On 21 August 2026 overnight rain flash-flooded Mae Sot municipality: more than 30 cm in the Mae Sot Fresh Market, over 50 cm in low-lying communities, and the Moei River more than a meter over its banks and into the Rim Moei market. In July 2024 the Moei rose 1.2 m above its bank under the first Friendship Bridge. In 2026 residents of riverside subdistricts including Tha Sai Luat, Mae Pa, Mae Ku, Maha Wan, Mae Tao, Mae Kasa and Phra That Pha Daeng were told to move belongings to higher ground. Rim Moei and Tha Sai Luat flood first; in central Mae Sot the exposure is ground floors and parking. Ask any landlord how high the water came in August 2026 before you sign.
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