Ini mungkin tanda-tanda BALI mencerminkan benarnya plesetan Bakalan Amblas Lantaran Investor.
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sumber: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Balis-property-market-insulated-PM85X?OpenDocument
Bali's property market 'insulated'
AAP
Australian villa owners say Bali's property market is more resilient than that in their own country, as the global financial crisis worsens.
The island's villa market has experienced exponential growth in recent years amid record tourism numbers, with villas in prime locations going for up to $US3 million ($A4.62 million) off-the-plan.
Asia-based expatriates seeking a holiday home cum rental property have driven the buying. With foreigners banned from bank financing, they pay cash, giving Bali some insulation from the credit crunch hurting other markets, property agents said.
Major hotel projects have been abandoned, enquiries are drying up and supply of villas on the market is increasing, but there's no widespread panic-selling, they said.
Half-finished estates offer the best bargains, particularly around the fast-growing Bukit Peninsula overlooking Bali's famous surf breaks. Desperate to complete projects sold off-the-plan, developers are discounting villa prices by up to 20 per cent.
Otherwise, prices of independent villas remain fairly stable, at least for now.
"Like anywhere else in the world we are feeling the downturn, but the villa market is still strong," said Shush Ingram from Bali Property Consultancy.
But while wealthy Europeans, Americans and Russians sniff out buying opportunities, Australians have been priced out of the market following the crash in the Australian dollar.
Many have backed away from deals to buy villas priced in US dollars - now some 40 per cent more expensive.
On the flipside, the US dollar's strength offers those Australians who already own Bali property an opportunity to cash in and buy cheaply back home.
"Everybody is now deciding to sell before things get any worse, and because now would be nice to get some US dollars," said Marcus Fenton from the Jimbaran office of real estate chain Exotiq Properties. He is marketing some 60 villas listed by Australians.
For long-term Bali residents David and Robyn Schonell, the currency gain is a sweetener, but their decision to list their villa less than a year after finishing construction is mainly to take advantage of falling values in Perth.
"We've got no debt and we're probably going to double our money here, so we can buy a property in Australia and still have enough money leftover to buy a bit of land here, and do it all again," said David, who runs a pearling operation in Bali.
"We're not in any hurry though. We've got a pretty hefty price on ours and if we don't sell we couldn't care less."
The Schonell's are looking for $US900,000 ($A1.39 million) for their 470 square metre house, which sits on a large block 150 metres from the beach in Canggu, an expatriate enclave north of Seminyak, Bali's priciest location.
Perth businessman Alan Morgan is similarly bullish about a project he is financing and consulting on, Batubelig Residences between Seminyak and Canggu.
He has built two villas that sold off-the-plan to expatriates in Dubai and Jakarta for $US1.2 million ($A1.85 million) and $US1.5 million ($A2.31 million). He recently raised the remaining two villas by $US100,000 ($A153,964.59) each to reflect higher construction costs.
"I'm not at all concerned," said Morgan. "I think Bali's real estate market is holding up definitely better than Perth, particularly at the top-end. The average growth on land value in Seminyak is about 25 per cent a year."
Returns like that have attracted a stampede of foreign developers and investors over the last decade, sparking nationalist outcry from community and political leaders who urge Balinese not to sell ancestral lands.
Although Indonesian law bans foreign ownership of land, villa investors commonly circumvent this by using an Indonesian nominee, sometimes recommended by their lawyer or adviser.
The nominee signs over practical control to the foreigner through various contracts including power of attorney and a fictitious loan agreement.
Real estate agents say it's a watertight scheme. But legal uncertainty and corruption accompany any investment in Indonesia, and there have been instances of nominees gaining legal control of properties.
Concerns have also been raised by fresh allegations that a business consultancy - partly run by expatriates - has failed to disburse millions of dollars belonging to clients to settle land and property acquisitions.
"I wouldn't say these kinds of things never happen, but they aren't common and you've just really got to do your homework," said Ingram.
But David Schonell said the returns are worth the risk.
"Just the price of our land has gone up threefold since 2005 when we bought it. Like any business decision, we've just got to be smart about it," he said.
"If you do it the correct way and you do all your due diligence on the property, your research into the nominee and put together all the appropriate paperwork, then I think it's a very secure investment."
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