Riverside Colonial Retreat with Private Pavilion & Jungle View

About the location

• Saba Beach — less than 10 minutes
• Sanur — approximately 15 minutes
• Ubud — approximately 15 minutes
• River and jungle on the property itself
• Ngurah Rai International Airport — around 40 minutes

Why Investing in This Property

Freehold is the headline, and it changes the nature of the asset. Almost everything sold to foreign buyers in Bali is leasehold — twenty or thirty years, after which the value is gone. This is held outright: no clock, no extension to negotiate, no declining term to explain to the next buyer. In a market where the standard product expires, an asset that does not belongs in a different category, and it is valued differently on resale.

The position is the second argument, and it is unusual. Less than ten minutes from Saba Beach, fifteen from Sanur and fifteen from Ubud puts the villa at the meeting point of three markets: the coast, the city and the cultural centre. Most Bali properties belong to one of the three and are an hour from the other two.

The pavilion is what will be remembered after the visit. A golf simulator that becomes a cinema, and a gym underneath, both built into the riverbank with greenery on every side — that is not a feature anyone else in the area can advertise, and on a rental listing it does the work that ten photographs of a pool cannot.

Six hundred square metres of building is a great deal of house, and the French colonial treatment gives it a character that the white-box modern villas around Bali do not have. Buyers looking for something other than the standard tropical villa have few options and tend to decide quickly.

A river frontage cannot be built on or built out. The greenery in front of the pavilion is protected by the geography rather than by an agreement.

Yellow zoning covers residential and mixed use, which supports living here and letting by the year.

A 2025 build carries no maintenance for years, and the 16,500 VA supply means the whole house — cooling, pool, cinema, gym — runs at once without a thought.

The villa sits near Saba, on the Gianyar side: a coastal-side property, with Ubud only fifteen minutes away.

Additional information

• Land size 596 m², building size 600 m²
• Year built 2025
• Freehold ownership
• 4 ensuite bedrooms + staff quarters
• 6 bathrooms + guest toilet
• French colonial design — sage tones, cement tile finishes
• Main living areas with expansive sliding glass panels opening to the pool
• Private swimming pool 3.9 x 10.5 m
• Two-level pavilion built into the riverbank
• Upper level: entertainment lounge with golf simulator convertible to private cinema
• Lower level: fully equipped fitness studio
• Fully equipped kitchen, barbecue area, outdoor shower
• Landscaped tropical garden
• Carport for car and motorbikes
• River and jungle views
• Land zoning: yellow — residential and mixed use
• Electricity: 16,500 VA
• Water: well
• Near Saba — less than 10 minutes to Saba Beach, approx. 15 minutes to Sanur and to Ubud
• Price USD 890,000 (IDR 14,500,000,000)