Area guide

Ela Beach

Port Moresby, NCD

6 homes are for sale here, too few of them priced for us to publish a typical figure. Renting runs K3,700 a week.

Median asking price
Not published
Needs 30 priced listings; 6 here
 
Median asking rent
K3,700 /wk
Middle half K3k to K6k
+48% vs NCD
Price per m²
Not published
Needs 30 homes stating a floor area
 
Gross yield
Not published
Needs 30 priced listings on both sides
 

Where it sits

Ela Beach against the other sangkats of Port Moresby

Every figure below is measured the same way, at the same moment, for all 26 of them. That is the only thing that makes a number like this mean anything.

Your money here

What a budget actually reaches in Ela Beach

Drag the figure. The bars are the homes listed in Ela Beach right now, grouped by what they ask.

Only 6 listed in Ela Beach. That is below the 30 this page needs before it will draw a distribution, so there is nothing here to slide along.

Compared

Ela Beach against the other sangkats of Port Moresby

Two counts cannot tell you which one to live in. Tap a heading to re-rank.

Korobosea1417
8 mile1213
Gerehu90
Touaguba Hill923
2 Mile88
9 Mile80
Boroko847K1,800
Town785K3,500
7 mile621
Ela Beach632K3,700
Gabutu60
Tokarara67
Boroko East510
Gordons520
Hohola514
Konedobu58
Other40
Gordons 537
Malolo Estate30
Napa Napa30
5 mile019
6 Mile06
Islander Village05
Koki05
Paga Hill012
Waigani017

A dash is not a zero. A median needs 30 priced listings behind it and a yield needs 30 on each side; 26 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 Ela Beach

Answered from the listings themselves, and recomputed every morning.

How much is rent in Ela Beach?

The typical asking rent is K3,700 a month, out of 32 rentals listed. The middle half ask between K2,675 and K5,500.

What kind of property is for sale in Ela Beach?

Mostly apartment. Of the 6 homes for sale, 6 are listed as apartment.

Living here

What Ela Beach is actually like

Ela Beach is a popular location with mostly upscale residential apartments with spectacular views. It’s a stone’s throw away from the Central Business District and an ideal location for those who work in the high-rise offices in Down Town Port Moresby and has easy access to hotels, restaurants, bars and social clubs.

Ela Beach is a popular sporting and fitness area and ideal for walking and jogging. It is adjourned with basketball and volleyball courts and is well lit into the early evenings with plenty of parking. The prime time for walking is at sunrise and sunset when it’s cooler.

History

Ela beach was formerly known as Era Kone, meaning Turtle beach in the Motuan dialect of the Papuan region. The local Motu Koita people hold an annual Hiri Moala festival to celebrate the trade wind voyages that were historically held in the region

Economy

Ela Beach has several high-end residential apartments, a hotel, fuel station, TAFE College and church, but it is best known for the sandy white beach that stretches for a kilometre. It hosted the APEC Summit in 2018 and APEC Haus was built specifically for the event at the end of the beach on reclaimed land.

Transportation

Public transport is available at Ela Beach and there are taxi ranks, although for overseas visitors it is recommended to use private transport and reputable taxis.

Every word above is already written, and already on the site.

From here

On the market in Ela Beach right now

5 to 1rentals outnumber homes for sale. Ela Beach is a landlord’s market before it is a buyer’s one.
2listings can be walked through on video before you visit in person.
2 of 6homes 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.