What is known
- BPS published RPPI 2025 using 58 selected regencies and municipalities in 36 provinces.
- Bank Indonesia publishes a quarterly primary-housing survey; Denpasar is in its city sample.
Bali is often reduced to one number, as though the island and every kind of home formed one market. Public indices are more candid: they show movement in a defined sample over time. Before applying a number to an asset, ask what was measured, where and for which period.
An official index is useful as context, not as an appraisal. Read it alongside the address, asset type, stage, legal structure, specification and terms of the chosen offer. When the index and asset belong to different territories or segments, no arithmetic will produce a precise price.
BPS publishes a national Residential Property Price Index for 2025, using 58 selected regencies and municipalities in 36 provinces. Bank Indonesia publishes a quarterly survey of primary housing; Denpasar is in its city sample. Both sources provide useful context, but neither is a price list for Canggu, Uluwatu or a particular villa. The question of price returns to the records and terms of the offer itself.
Do not ask an index whether an offer is expensive. First collect the same fields for two or three real options: exact address, format, right or contract structure, area, stage, specification, price date and payment schedule. Only then does it become clear what is genuinely comparable and what merely looks similar. If those fields are absent, defer a price conclusion rather than replace it with an attractive average.
Do not merge indices, asking prices, contract prices and individual payment terms. Do not carry Denpasar across to Canggu, or villa data to land, without a separate chain of evidence. When that chain is absent, the honest answer is straightforward: public data is insufficient for a conclusion about the price of a particular asset.