Tanah Rata: Condos, Apartments and Area Guide

Tanah Rata is the largest town in Cameron Highlands and the seat of its district council. The name means flat ground in Malay. Our pages here are apartments and holiday homes in the town, along Jalan Besar and Persiaran Camellia, and up at Golden Hills towards Brinchang.

Developments in this directory

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For sale / for rent on condo.com.my now

RM 4,940

Median household income, Cameron Highlands seat

DOSM, 2024 · whole P.078 seat

71,300

Population, Cameron Highlands seat

DOSM estimate, 2024 · whole P.078 seat, incl. part of Lipis

RM 377 psf

Condo / apartment median, our matched buildings

NAPIC, 2023 · 28 sales in 6 buildings

1,440 m

Height

Town centre, Wikipedia

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Tanah Rata area guide

About Tanah Rata

Tanah Rata sits at about 1,440 metres. When the road from Tapah opened in 1931 it ended here, and the town became the centre of the new hill station. It is one of the three mukims of the district, with Ringlet and Ulu Telom.

The district council, the main police station, banks, the bus station and the district hospital are all in Tanah Rata. Brinchang, the second town, is about 2 km further up the road.

Household income

Tanah Rata is a polling district (078/01/11) of the Tanah Rata state seat, inside the Cameron Highlands parliament seat (P.078). DOSM put the median household income of the whole seat at RM 4,940 a month in 2024, against RM 4,421 in 2022.

The seat's 71,300 people include the Jelai state seat in Lipis district, which lowers the average. Cameron Highlands district alone had a median of RM 5,655.

House prices per square foot

The table uses only the 6 buildings on this page that we matched by name in NAPIC. They had 28 sales in 2023 at a median of RM 377 psf (RM 340,000). Since then there have been too few to give a median.

For a wider view, all condo and apartment sales in Cameron Highlands district had a median of RM 368 psf in 2024 (RM 330,000, 51 sales).

Median sold price	2024	2025	Jan–Jun 2026
Condominium / apartment	Too few sales (6)	Too few sales (7)	Too few sales (2)

NAPIC gives the district but not the area or town, so these are the sales in the 6 buildings of this area that we matched by name in NAPIC Open Sales Data (JPPH). One project selling many units can pull a year up or down. psf = price ÷ floor area of the unit. Under 10 sales shows "Too few sales". Recent months are not complete yet.

Popular developments

Barrington Square: apartments at Cameron Golden Hills, Jalan Golden Hills 1.
Emerald Avenue: off the Tanah Rata to Brinchang road.
Cameron Fair Serviced Suites @ Tanah Rata: serviced suites at Taman Royal Lily.
Perumahan Makmur Cameron Jaya: apartments on Jalan Tengkolok.
Desa Anthurium and Villa Dahlia: near Sungai Ruil.
Greenhill Resort on Jalan Gereja and Iris House Resort on Jalan Griddle.
Parkview Apartment: Persiaran Camellia 5.
Puncak Arabella: off Persiaran Dayang Indah.

Schools

SMK Sultan Ahmad Shah, the secondary school used as the Tanah Rata polling station.
SJK (C) Brinchang and SJK (C) Kea Farm are a short drive up the road.

Hospitals

Hospital Sultanah Hajjah Kalsom, the district hospital, in Tanah Rata.

Things to do

Jungle trails: most of the numbered walks in the highlands start from Tanah Rata.
BOH tea estates: the first garden was at Habu, near Ringlet, in 1929.
The weekend night market at Golden Hills, between Tanah Rata and Brinchang.
Cool weather: the yearly mean in the highlands is about 18°C.

Getting around

Federal Route 59 runs through the town, down to Ringlet and Tapah and up to Brinchang and Kea Farm.
Bus station in town, with buses to Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur and taxis around the highlands.
No railway. The nearest KTM stations are Tapah Road in Perak and Kuala Lipis.

Frequently asked questions

How much is an apartment in Tanah Rata?

All NAPIC condo and apartment sales in Cameron Highlands district had a median of RM 368 psf in 2024. The buildings we matched in Tanah Rata sold at RM 377 psf in 2023.