Bali property market data

How do you distinguish useful data from a convincing number?

A useful figure has a passport: period, geography, measured object, method and limitation. If any one is missing, you do not know whether it can be compared with another area, project or year.

The short answer

Official BI, BPS and TARUBALI sources are good for checking provincial context and locating the planning layer to investigate. They do not automatically create a comparable database of prices, transactions, rental income or liquidity for particular assets. Such a database has to be assembled separately and described transparently.

Evidence scope

Checked on

2026-10-15

Established

• Official provincial economic, tourism and planning context.

Not established

• One comparable price, transaction, rent and return dataset for Bali assets.

Start with the date

BPS publishes a quarterly report for April–June 2026, while its arrivals table was updated on 1 October and contains months through August. Neither should be called ‘the current market’ without a date. An advertised price also needs a date: an old asking price and a completed transaction are different observations.

Then the geography

Bali Province, an area, village, street and a specific point are not interchangeable levels. TARUBALI explicitly shows different plans for different territories. Comparing an asset's price with a ‘Bali average’ without matching geography and asset type creates an illusion of comparison.

Only then the method

Ask whether the data is completed transactions or asking prices, which currency and area basis are used, whether taxes and furnishings are included, who collected the records and how duplicates were removed. Without answers, a comparison is a display, not research. The official sources in this package do not claim to be such an asset sample, so they are used as context only.

Decision steps

1. Step 1

   Label the metric: what exactly was measured?

2. Step 2

   Record the period and update date.

3. Step 3

   Check the geography and point to which it applies.

4. Step 4

   Clarify method, sample, currency, area unit and duplicates.

5. Step 5

   Separately request the records and facts for the chosen asset.

What to check

Sources

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