Private Tropical 4 Bedroom Villa in Umalas, Bali

About the location

• Atlas Beach Club — 9 minutes
• Finns Beach Club — 9 minutes
• Batu Belig Beach — 9 minutes
• Umalas, a quiet residential district between Seminyak and Canggu

Why Investing in This Property

Nine are in Umalas is the headline, and it is the part of this property that cannot be replicated.

Umalas is built out. The lanes are lined with villas, the gaps have been filled, and what trades here now is two to four are cut from what larger holdings remain. Nine hundred contiguous square metres with a 444 m² house on it means more than half the site is garden — real grounds with depth and planting, not a border around a pool. In a district where new villas are pressed to their boundaries and sold on their finishes, space is the thing you cannot buy back, and it is what holds value when the market softens.

The pool stands out for its second dimension. Nine point eight metres long is generous; four point four seven metres wide is rare. Almost every villa pool in Bali is a lane — long enough to photograph, three metres across, so two people cannot swim side by side and nobody can float without touching an edge. At nearly forty-four square metres and that width, this is a pool a family uses rather than admires, and in a rental context it is the photograph that separates a listing from the fifty others on the same page.

Four ensuite bedrooms is the size that works both ways in Umalas, and that matters for your exit. It is large enough for a family relocating to Bali for the international schools, who sign twelve-month leases and renew them; and it is large enough for a group booking. At resale it appeals to an end-user buyer as much as to an investor, which is what keeps a property liquid. Five bedrooms narrows you to the rental market; three narrows you to families. Four does neither.

The four hundred and forty-four square metres of building is what that size buys internally: rooms that are actually large, an open living space that is a room and not a passage, and four bedrooms that do not share a wall with the kitchen. On a plot of nine are there was no need to compress anything, and it shows.

The position is Umalas doing what Umalas does. Atlas, Finns and Batu Belig are each nine minutes away, so the beach clubs and the beach are a short ride and their traffic is not in your street. This is the district people move to after a season in Canggu — same access, none of the congestion, international schools nearby, and streets that are still residential at eleven at night.

Twenty-four years of lease is a working horizon for a house bought to live in and let on long terms.

Additional information

• Land 900 m² (9 are) — building 444 m²
• 4 bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms — 4 bathrooms — open-concept living room
• Private swimming pool 9.82 x 4.47 m (nearly 44 m², wide as well as long)
• Lush tropical landscaping around the house
• Enclosed living area — equipped kitchen — washing machine — private parking
• Sold fully furnished with high-quality finishes
• Leasehold until 2050 (around 24 years remaining)
• Umalas, a quiet residential district between Seminyak and Canggu — Atlas Beach Club, Finns Beach Club and Batu Belig Beach each 9 minutes