"Where should I buy land in Bali" is usually answered with a list of trendy village names and a yield number nobody can source. This page answers it differently: with the prices we are actually quoting per are right now, the physical differences between the southern areas that drive those prices, and the two regulatory facts that make some of the prettiest land the worst land to buy. Start with the...
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Most people researching a Bali villa start with the build cost and treat the land as a detail. On the Bukit the arithmetic runs the other way round: the land is usually the larger number, sometimes by a factor of five. This page works through both halves with real plot prices from our own catalogue, and is honest about which construction figures can be trusted and which cannot. Why the published...
Short answer: no foreigner can hold Hak Milik — freehold title — over land in Bali, and no structure changes that. What a foreigner can hold is a different right over the same plot: a use right, a building right, or a lease. Those are real, registrable and bankable. The trouble starts when someone sells you Hak Milik anyway and calls the workaround "as good as ownership". This page sets out every...
Bali land is quoted per are. The acquisition duty, the notary, the checks and the 10% lease tax are quoted nowhere. A worked example on a real plot, and three figures we refuse to repeat.
Two regional regulations, one demolition and a criminal case rewrote what due diligence means in Bali. What to check, in what order, and which numbers we refuse to quote.
A foreigner cannot hold Hak Milik. Three structures work instead - and the zone matters more than any of them. Full costs, honest yields, and what is genuinely worse about a lease.