Rare Freehold Estate with Expansive Land and Timeless Architecture in Kedungu

About the location

• Jungle Padel Kedungu — walking distance
• Grow in Kedungu School — walking distance
• The new Potato Head project on the beach — 7 minutes
• Pig Stone Beach — 10 minutes
• Nuanu City and ProEd International School — 15 minutes
• Kedungu Beach — 5 minutes

Why Investing in This Property

Three thousand square metres five minutes from a beach that is being developed is the whole argument, and it is worth stating why land of this size behaves differently.

Parcels this large no longer come up in a coastal area once it starts building. What remains gets divided into two- and four-are plots, because that is what sells fastest, and every year the number of intact half-hectares near a beach falls. What is scarce here is not the house — houses can be built — but the assembled land in one holding. That is what cannot be recreated, and it is what holds value when the villa market has one of its periodic corrections.

The ten-are plot beside the building is the practical expression of that. It is a second project sitting inside the first: a guest villa, a second house to sell, a pool pavilion, or simply the guarantee that nothing gets built against your wall. Most buyers of a 3,000 m² estate are buying that last point without saying so.

The construction deserves attention because it is unusual. A 2006 house with heavy columns and beams, built before the island's construction boom, is generally sounder than what was put up in the rush that followed. Twenty years is also long enough to know: a house that has stood through two decades of wet seasons without trouble has already passed the test that a new villa has not yet taken. And the design — by an architect, rather than from a catalogue — is why it will still look deliberate in another twenty years, when the villas built last year look like the year they were built.

The rooftop with a third floor already allowed for is worth real money. Adding a storey to a house not designed for it means reinforcing the structure from the ground up; here the columns are already sized for it. That is a defined, costed option rather than a hope.

The position is specific and it is improving. A school within walking distance changes the tenant profile — families on twelve-month leases that renew, because the school year does not pause for the wet season. Padel next door, a Potato Head project going up on the beach seven minutes away, Nuanu and its international school fifteen minutes out: this is a neighbourhood acquiring its infrastructure, and the estate was here before all of it.

As a house it is a residence; as a business it is a boutique hospitality site with the land to support it. Both readings work, which is what keeps the resale wide.

On the practical side: an 11 by 5 metre pool is a swimming pool rather than a plunge pool, which at this scale matters; staff quarters mean the house can be serviced properly without staff living in the guest space; parking for four cars is what a large house actually needs; and having both PDAM and a private well removes the single most common infrastructure failure on this coast.

Additional information

• Land 3,025 m² — building 384 m² — built 2006, designed by an Argentinian architect
• Also offered with 1,400 m² of land
• 3 bedrooms — 3 bathrooms (2 ensuite + 1 guest)
• Private pool 11 × 5 m with brand-new pump system
• Open-plan and enclosed living areas, fully equipped kitchen
• Laundry and storage rooms, staff quarters, outdoor shower
• Rooftop with potential for a third floor — structure built for it
• A 10-are empty plot beside the building
• Spacious, mature tropical gardens with room for expansion
• Parking for up to 4 cars and several bikes
• Fully furnished
• Water supply from PDAM mains and a private well
• Jungle Padel Kedungu and Grow in Kedungu School — walking distance
• Kedungu Beach 5 minutes — new Potato Head beach project 7 minutes — Pig Stone Beach 10 minutes — Nuanu City and ProEd International School 15 minutes
• Building permit: IMB obtained in 2006 (the regime in force at the time)