3 Bedroom Rice Field View Villa for Sale in Peliatan, Ubud

About the location

• Sacred Monkey Forest — 10 minutes
• Ubud Palace — 12 minutes
• Pelangi International School — 12 minutes
• The Yoga Barn — 1.6 km
• ARMA Museum — 1.3 km
• Campuhan Ridge Walk — 4.5 km
• Surrounded by rice paddies and tropical greenery

Why Investing in This Property

The zoning is the first thing to say, because it is the thing most buyers in Ubud discover too late.

This land is zoned pink — tourism. That means short-term letting is permitted here. It sounds like a technicality; it is not. A very large share of villas marketed in Ubud on the strength of nightly rental projections sit on yellow residential land, where nightly letting is not allowed. Owners find out when a neighbour complains, when the banjar raises it, or when they try to obtain a Pondok Wisata licence and cannot. On this property, the use the marketing describes and the use the zoning permits are the same thing. If you are buying for rental income, that single fact is worth more than any feature in the specification.

And it is a property built to be let. Three ensuite bedrooms, all generously sized and all with their own access to the garden, is the layout that groups and families book — nobody shares a bathroom and nobody walks through someone else's room. The pool with its wooden deck and sunken lounge is the photograph that sells the booking. The covered dining area means the villa works in the wet season as well as the dry.

The operational side is already in place, which is rare and materially valuable. Daily housekeeping, pool and garden maintenance, a villa manager, and optional airport transfers, in-villa massage, excursions and chef service. Buying a villa that is already running with staff in place is very different from buying an empty house and assembling a team — the first earns from month one, the second takes a season to sort out.

Single level is the detail we would draw your attention to, because it is unusual and it is deliberate. Ubud land is expensive, so developers build upwards and put bedrooms on a second floor. Laying 150 m² out entirely on one level uses more land for the same space, which is exactly why it is rare — and why it sells. It works for older guests, for families with small children, and for anyone who wants to live here long-term. At resale it puts you in a small group rather than in the crowd of two-storey villas built the same years.

The specification has been thought through by someone who has actually run a villa. A deep well rather than a shallow one, so water holds through the dry season. A backup generator, because Ubud loses power. A safe in every bedroom, which is what a guest travelling with a laptop and passports looks for. Large sliding windows for natural ventilation, which cuts the air-conditioning bill on a property where electricity is the biggest operating cost. None of these appear in photographs, and all of them show up in your reviews and your running costs.

Peliatan is the right address for this kind of villa. It is an authentic village — temples, family compounds, the gamelan and dance tradition that Ubud is actually famous for — and it is ten minutes from the Monkey Forest, twelve from the Palace, 1.6 km from The Yoga Barn and 1.3 km from the ARMA museum. Guests are in the calm rather than in the traffic, and still walk or ride to everything. Pelangi International School is twelve minutes, which opens the long-term family market as an alternative to nightly letting.

The lease runs to March 2049, around twenty-two years. That is a working horizon for an income property: long enough to operate it for a decade and sell to someone who still has a decade themselves.

Additional information

• Land 500 m² — building approx. 150 m² — single level — built 2019
• 3 bedrooms, all generously sized, each with ensuite bathroom and direct outdoor access — master bathroom with terrazzo bathtub
• Enclosed living room with large sliding aluminium windows for natural ventilation
• Private swimming pool with wooden deck and sunken outdoor lounge — covered outdoor dining area
• Fully equipped kitchen — high-speed internet — fully furnished with quality pieces
• Zoning: pink (tourism) — short-term rental permitted
• Water from a deep well — PLN electricity — backup generator
• Safe in each bedroom — flashlights — secure gated car and bike access
• Daily housekeeping, pool and garden maintenance, villa manager support
• Optional services: airport transfers, in-villa massage, excursions, chef service
• Leasehold until 5 March 2049 (around 22 years remaining)
• Peliatan, surrounded by rice paddies — Monkey Forest 10 minutes, Ubud Palace and Pelangi International School 12 minutes, The Yoga Barn 1.6 km, ARMA Museum 1.3 km, Campuhan Ridge Walk 4.5 km