1 Bedroom Mezzanine-Style Residences in Umalas for Sale

About the location

• Amare Padel — 2 minutes on foot
• Umalas Kids Club — 2 minutes on foot
• Pepito Umalas — 3 minutes on foot
• De Gym — 3 minutes
• French School — 4 minutes by car
• ProEd International School — 5 minutes
• Da Maria and Monsieur Spoon — 5 minutes
• Caterpillar School — 10 minutes on foot
• Batu Belig, Potato Head and Berawa Canggu — 10 minutes

Why Investing in This Property

One hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars is an entry price for Umalas, and what it buys is worth understanding precisely.

The zoning is the first thing and it is the one that makes the rest work. This is pink zone — tourism — which permits short-term letting. That distinction is not a technicality. A large share of the units and villas marketed in this corridor on the strength of rental returns sit on residential land where nightly letting is not permitted, and their owners find out later. Here you may let the unit by the night, by the month or by the year, and all three are open to you. On a small unit bought for income, that flexibility is most of the value.

The mezzanine layout is the second, and it is the reason to choose these over the flat suites in the same development. Putting the bedroom above the living room means fifty-seven square metres reads as two proper rooms rather than one divided one. You get a full-height living space, a kitchen you can cook in and a bedroom that is genuinely separate — with a door at the bottom of the stairs, not a curtain. For a couple or a single professional taking a three- or six-month let, that separation is the difference between a studio and a home, and it is what they pay a premium for.

Which brings us to the tenant, because a one-bedroom unit lets to a very specific person and that person is abundant here. Umalas's long-stay market is remote workers, young professionals and couples — people spending three to twelve months in Bali who want somewhere quiet, walkable and furnished, with a parking space for a scooter. They do not want a four-bedroom villa and will not pay for one. One-bedroom stock in a walkable Umalas street is the most consistently occupied rental format on this side of the island, and it fills all year rather than in a season.

Walkability is what makes this particular position work, and in Bali it is rare enough to be the whole argument. Amare Padel and Umalas Kids Club are two minutes on foot. Pepito, the supermarket you actually use, is three. Caterpillar School is ten. Most Bali property requires a scooter for a loaf of bread; a tenant here can live without one, and that is what keeps them for a second and third lease rather than one.

The school cluster around it — the French School four minutes by car, ProEd five, Caterpillar walkable — supports the other half of the demand: staff, teachers and parents who want to be near the schools without renting a family villa.

On the price per square metre, the 57 m² works out at about USD 2,720 and the 66 m² at about USD 2,500. The larger unit is the better value on that measure, and it is also the easier one to re-let and resell.

Additional information

• Umalas Lestari — mezzanine-style one-bedroom residences
• Two sizes: 57 m² at USD 155,000 (approx. USD 2,720/m²) and 66 m² at USD 165,000 (approx. USD 2,500/m²)
• Mezzanine bedroom above a full-height living room — modern kitchen — built-in wardrobe — enclosed living area
• Fully furnished — parking space for car and scooter
• Zoning: pink (tourism) — short-term, monthly and annual letting all permitted
• 30-year leasehold
• Building permit (PBG) in process
• Single-level suites of 31 to 42 m² in the same development are listed separately under reference DE1252
• Amare Padel and Umalas Kids Club 2 minutes on foot — Pepito Umalas 3 minutes on foot — De Gym 3 minutes — French School 4 minutes by car — ProEd International School and Da Maria 5 minutes — Caterpillar School 10 minutes on foot — Batu Belig, Potato Head and Berawa Canggu 10 minutes