Spacious 4 Bedroom Freehold Villa in Prime Umalas Location

About the location

• Revolver Umalas — 1 minute
• 7AM Umalas — 4 minutes
• Nook — 4 minutes
• Batu Belig Beach — 8 minutes
• Berawa Beach and Finns Beach Club — 10 minutes
• Cafés, restaurants, boutiques and international schools throughout the surrounding streets

Why Investing in This Property

Two things about this property matter more than anything in the specification, and they are both on the title.

It is freehold, and it is in pink zoning. In Bali that combination is genuinely rare, and it is worth understanding what each one does.

Freehold means the land does not run out. Almost everything sold in Umalas is leasehold — twenty-five or thirty years, after which it returns to its owner — and a leasehold villa is a wasting asset: every year you hold it, there is one year less to sell. Freehold compounds instead of counting down. On a property you intend to keep, or to pass on, that is the difference between an investment and a long rental.

Pink zoning means tourism. It permits short-term letting. That is not a technicality — a very large share of Bali villas are marketed on nightly rental projections while sitting on residential land where nightly letting is not allowed, and owners find out when a neighbour complains or when a Pondok Wisata licence is refused. Here the use and the zoning agree. You may live in it, let it on twelve-month terms to a family, or run it as a holiday rental, and all three are open to you.

So you have permanent ownership and unrestricted use, on 5.75 are, in the most stable residential district between Seminyak and Canggu. Everything else is a bonus — but the bonuses are good.

The single level is the first. Two hundred and fifty square metres laid out on one floor takes far more land than stacking it, which is precisely why so few are built: developers go up because land is expensive. A single-storey house works for an older buyer, for a family with small children, and for anyone who intends to be living here in twenty years — a large and growing part of the Umalas market with almost nothing to choose from. At resale you are not competing with the hundred two-storey villas built in the same years.

The guest pavilion is the second, and it is the detail that turns this from a home into an asset. An independent unit with its own bedroom and bathroom lets separately from the main house: a long-term tenant, a manager, a family member, a home office, or simply a second income while you occupy the main villa. Three bedrooms plus a rentable pavilion behaves very differently from four bedrooms under one roof — and with pink zoning behind it, that pavilion can be let by the night as well as by the year.

The plot ratio is the third. Two hundred and fifty square metres of building on 575 means more than half the site is garden and pool. In Umalas, where villas are increasingly pressed to their boundaries, that space is what you cannot buy back later.

The position is Umalas at its best. Revolver is one minute away, 7AM and Nook four, Batu Belig Beach eight, Berawa and Finns ten. You are between Seminyak and Canggu with both within reach and neither on your doorstep, in streets that are still residential. The international schools nearby are what keeps the long-term rental market here full regardless of season.

The title is Indonesian freehold, which a foreign individual cannot hold directly: the purchase is structured through an Indonesian company — a PT PMA, with the title converted to Hak Guna Bangunan and its own renewable term. That is a well-trodden route and it is not an obstacle.

Additional information

• Land 575 m² (5.75 are) — building approximately 250 m² — single level — built 2019
• Main house: 3 bedrooms with open-plan lounge, dining and kitchen, and large openings to the garden
• Independent guest pavilion with its own bedroom and bathroom — 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in total
• Private swimming pool in a landscaped garden
• Enclosed living area — equipped kitchen — car and scooter parking
• Sold furnished
• Ownership: freehold — foreign buyers hold it through a PT PMA with conversion to Hak Guna Bangunan
• Zoning: pink (tourism) — short-term letting permitted, as well as long-term letting and owner occupation
• Water from a deep well — PLN electricity
• Revolver Umalas 1 minute — 7AM Umalas and Nook 4 minutes — Batu Belig Beach 8 minutes — Berawa Beach and Finns Beach Club 10 minutes