2.2008 Hectares Freehold Land in Waikabubak, West Sumba

About the location

• Nihi Sumba — 20 minutes
• Rua Beach — 25 minutes
• Waikabubak, capital of West Sumba — 30 minutes
• Tambolaka Airport — about an hour

Why Investing in This Property

Twenty minutes from Nihi Sumba is the fact that matters here.

Nihi is the reason anyone outside Indonesia has heard of this island. It has been ranked the best hotel in the world more than once, it draws guests who could go anywhere, and it did all of that on a coastline with no airport road, no luxury infrastructure and no precedent. Every serious visitor to West Sumba passes within a few kilometres of this land. That single establishment is what turned Sumba from a place people flew over into a place people fly to, and being twenty minutes from it is the difference between building in a market and building in an empty field.

Two point two hectares at USD 250,000 is about USD 1,136 per are — the lowest price per square metre of anything we hold on this island. For that you get elevation, a 360-degree outlook, ocean on the horizon, and enough land to build low and spread out, which is the only thing that works here. Nihi itself is a small number of villas across a very large site. That is the product Sumba sells, and this parcel is the right shape for it.

Elevation is worth more than it sounds on a tropical island. High ground gets the breeze, which means fewer mosquitoes and less air conditioning; it drains, which matters enormously in a wet season like Sumba's; and it gives you a view that no neighbour can build out, because there is no neighbour and the land below is valley. A coastal plot can be overtaken by whatever is built in front of it. A hilltop cannot.

Additional information

• Land 22,008 m² (2.2 hectares) — elevated site surrounded by rolling hills — panoramic outlook over ocean, hills and valley
• Freehold title (Hak Milik) — foreign buyers acquire through a PT PMA holding the land as Hak Guna Bangunan
• Newly paved road up to the boundary
• Quiet and completely private — nothing built on the surrounding land
• Nihi Sumba 20 minutes — Rua Beach 25 minutes — Waikabubak, capital of West Sumba, 30 minutes — Tambolaka Airport about an hour