Temerloh and Central Pahang: Condos, Apartments and Area Guide

Temerloh is the second largest urban area in Pahang. It sits where the Semantan River meets the Pahang River, about 130 km from Kuala Lumpur, and was once called Kuala Semantan. The district dates from 1 July 1889, when the first British Resident split Pahang into districts. Mentakab is 9 km to the north-west.

Kuala Lipis was the state capital from 1898 until 1955 and keeps many colonial buildings. Pekan, near the mouth of the Pahang River, is the royal town. Jerantut is the largest district by area and the gateway to Taman Negara. Tioman Island lies off the coast of Rompin district in the south.

The zone is made of whole districts. DOSM put the 2024 median household income of Temerloh district at RM 4,595 (177,800 people). The others were Rompin RM 4,760, Lipis RM 4,611, Maran RM 4,470, Pekan RM 4,344, Bera RM 4,269 and Jerantut RM 4,231.

All seven are below the Pahang median of RM 4,975. Pekan, with 127,800 people, is the most populous after Temerloh.

NAPIC recorded only 8 condo and apartment sales in these seven districts in 2024, too few for a fair median. Houses are the real market.

1-storey terraces sold 723 times in 2024 at a median of RM 230,000 (RM 249 psf). 2-storey terraces had a median of RM 360,000 (105 sales). In Temerloh district alone, 1-storey terraces sold at RM 245,000, and in Lipis at RM 265,000.

We list few developments in this zone, all of them small apartment blocks:

• Temerloh: Pangsapuri Plaza Temerloh and Dynaton Impiana Taman Bahagia on Jalan Bahagia.
• Mentakab: Bangunan Eng Kwee on Jalan Bunga Raya.
• Kuala Lipis: Desa Aman and Rumah Pangsa Desa Aman at Taman Desa Aman.
• Other main towns: Maran, Jerantut, Triang and Mengkarak in Bera, Pekan, and Kuala Rompin.

• UiTM Pahang at Bandar Tun Razak, Jengka, in Maran district.
• Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah, with its main campus in Pekan.
• Clifford School in Kuala Lipis, one of the colonial-era buildings of the old capital.

• Hospital Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah in Temerloh, the main hospital of central Pahang.
• Government hospitals with specialists in Kuala Lipis and Pekan.

• Taman Negara, set up in 1938 and 1939, with park headquarters at Kuala Tahan, reached from Jerantut.
• Tasik Bera, Malaysia's first Ramsar wetland, and the Kuala Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre.
• Pekan: the Sultan Abu Bakar Museum, opened in 1976, and the riverside Heritage Route. Tioman Island off Rompin.
• Pahang food such as gulai tempoyak patin, river fish cooked with fermented durian.

• East Coast Expressway past Temerloh and Maran to Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan.
• ECRL stations at Temerloh and Maran, with passenger service due from 12 December 2026.
• KTM East Coast Line with stations at Mentakab, Jerantut and Kuala Lipis.
• Federal Route 98 from Temerloh to Jerantut, and BAS.MY route C40 from Kuantan to Pekan.

Across all NAPIC sales in the seven districts, 1-storey terraces had a median of RM 230,000 in 2024. Apartment sales were too few for a median.

Yes. Temerloh and Maran have ECRL stations, and passenger trains are due to start on 12 December 2026.

Kuala Lipis, from 1898 until the capital moved to Kuantan in 1955.