Camden

A two-bedroom unit sold at 75 square meters can deliver under 60 of usable area, and most buyers pay full price for the gap. This is how a professional reads a floor plan: efficiency ratio, circulation waste, furnishability, structure, and the exit drawn on the same page. The skill costs nothing and forecasts both the rent and the resale.

A foreigner who lands in Phnom Penh has about 90 days to file for a work permit, and that clock starts at arrival, not at readiness. The first three months of relocating to Cambodia run as a dependency chain: status, then structure, then capital. Get the order right and the property purchase becomes the last quiet step rather than the first scramble. Here is how investors sequence the move.

Phnom Penh shows the highest gross rental yields of the four cities, yet the headline number is the least useful part of the comparison. Net cost, foreign ownership limits, and price momentum reshape the ranking once a real buyer applies it. Here is how the four compare on the yield that gets banked, and the one structure that lets a buyer diversify across districts from a single low entry.