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PT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk: Bali Resorts and Property Development

Prepared by: NovAsia Editorial Team

PT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk is better understood through its operating hotels than through the word “Villa” in its name. The Indonesian public company, traded under the code BUVA, has a Bali portfolio centred on Alila Villas Uluwatu, Alila Ubud and Alila Manggis. These are identifiable resort assets, with the Uluwatu property also marketed to hotel guests through Hyatt. That distinction matters to anyone researching Bali property developers. A pool villa offered for a hotel stay is not, by that fact alone, a villa available for private purchase. Neither a hotel booking page nor a group portfolio establishes that an individual unit can be transferred to a foreign buyer. The official material reviewed did not establish a residential unit-sales programme for these three resorts.

NamePT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk
BrandPT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk
Identity evidence
  • This profile is based on the listed public sources; the company’s role in a specific contract must be checked separately.

Who appears in the public record

PT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk is better understood through its operating hotels than through the word “Villa” in its name. The Indonesian public company, traded under the code BUVA, has a Bali portfolio centred on Alila Villas Uluwatu, Alila Ubud and Alila Manggis. These are identifiable resort assets, with the Uluwatu property also marketed to hotel guests through Hyatt.

That distinction matters to anyone researching Bali property developers. A pool villa offered for a hotel stay is not, by that fact alone, a villa available for private purchase. Neither a hotel booking page nor a group portfolio establishes that an individual unit can be transferred to a foreign buyer. The official material reviewed did not establish a residential unit-sales programme for these three resorts.

What the sources support

There is a solid documentary starting point for checking the company itself. Indonesia's central securities depository identifies BUVA as an active listed issuer, and the company publishes its corporate milestones, resort portfolio and investor disclosures. That evidence supports the group's identity and hospitality track record.

It does not verify a buyer's title. The sources reviewed do not identify a specific villa being sold, the legal vendor for such a unit, its title and permits, or a foreign purchaser's eligibility to hold the proposed interest. Listed-company status should never be presented as a substitute for property-level due diligence.

Developer evidence

BrandPT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk
Identity evidence
  • Public materials and sources disclosed at the foot of this page.
Public record
  • BUVA's experience is real, but not every hotel in the portfolio was developed by the group from the ground up. Its company history traces Alila Villas Uluwatu from land acquisition in 2004 to construction in 2006 and opening in 2009. Alila Ubud joined through the acquisition of an existing hotel's assets and operations in 2008; Alila Manggis was acquired in 2015. These are three resort businesses with different histories, not evidence of three completed residential schemes sold to individual owners. The distinction extends to the corporate structure. BUVA's 2024 reporting identifies Alila Villas Uluwatu and Alila Ubud with the parent company's operations, while Alila Manggis is associated with its subsidiary PT Mandra Alila. Its published timeline also records the 2018 disposal of a subsidiary that owned the Alila brand. A recognisable hotel name, the company behind the asset and the entity entitled to sign a property-sale agreement should not be assumed to be identical. There is a more recent property-development angle: in November 2025, BUVA acquired a 99.99% interest in PT Bukit Permai Properti, described by the company as a landowner in Uluwatu. The acquisition documents a landholding, not an approved villa scheme, a completion timetable or units offered for sale.
Unknowns
  • The legal entity, contracting party, land interest and terms of a selected property must be checked from documents before payment.

What is known and what to verify

What is known

  • PT Bukit Uluwatu Villa Tbk is better understood through its operating hotels than through the word “Villa” in its name. The Indonesian public company, traded under the code BUVA, has a Bali portfolio centred on Alila Villas Uluwatu, Alila Ubud and Alila Manggis. These are identifiable resort assets, with the Uluwatu property also marketed to hotel guests through Hyatt. That distinction matters to anyone researching Bali property developers. A pool villa offered for a hotel stay is not, by that fact alone, a villa available for private purchase. Neither a hotel booking page nor a group portfolio establishes that an individual unit can be transferred to a foreign buyer. The official material reviewed did not establish a residential unit-sales programme for these three resorts.

What to verify for the address

  • The legal entity, contracting party, land interest and terms of a selected property must be checked from documents before payment.

FAQ

Can I buy one of the Alila Villas Uluwatu pool villas?
The current Hyatt pages present those villas as guest accommodation. The official BUVA material checked did not establish an individual-unit sales offering. A seller claiming that a particular villa is available for purchase should provide a unit-specific contract, title evidence and proof of authority to sell.
Does BUVA's resort portfolio represent three developments it built?
Not in the same sense. BUVA's timeline records construction and the 2009 opening of Alila Villas Uluwatu. Alila Ubud was brought into the group through an acquisition in 2008, and Alila Manggis followed in 2015. Ownership and operation of an acquired hotel are valuable experience, but they are not identical to delivering a new residential project.
Is BUVA the same as the Alila hotel brand or its operator?
No such equivalence should be assumed. BUVA's published history records the 2018 disposal of a subsidiary owning the Alila brand, and the resorts appear on Hyatt's hotel-booking channels. Brand, asset owner, operator and any vendor named in a sale agreement are separate roles that need to be identified.
Does BUVA's 2025 Uluwatu acquisition mean new villas are on sale?
It confirms a corporate acquisition, not a retail launch. BUVA says it acquired 99.99% of PT Bukit Permai Properti, an Uluwatu landowner, in November 2025. Permitted use, project approvals, construction stage and availability of individual homes require separate evidence.
Public record
  • BUVA's experience is real, but not every hotel in the portfolio was developed by the group from the ground up. Its company history traces Alila Villas Uluwatu from land acquisition in 2004 to construction in 2006 and opening in 2009. Alila Ubud joined through the acquisition of an existing hotel's assets and operations in 2008; Alila Manggis was acquired in 2015. These are three resort businesses with different histories, not evidence of three completed residential schemes sold to individual owners. The distinction extends to the corporate structure. BUVA's 2024 reporting identifies Alila Villas Uluwatu and Alila Ubud with the parent company's operations, while Alila Manggis is associated with its subsidiary PT Mandra Alila. Its published timeline also records the 2018 disposal of a subsidiary that owned the Alila brand. A recognisable hotel name, the company behind the asset and the entity entitled to sign a property-sale agreement should not be assumed to be identical. There is a more recent property-development angle: in November 2025, BUVA acquired a 99.99% interest in PT Bukit Permai Properti, described by the company as a landowner in Uluwatu. The acquisition documents a landholding, not an approved villa scheme, a completion timetable or units offered for sale.
Unknowns
  • The legal entity, contracting party, land interest and terms of a selected property must be checked from documents before payment.

Projects and buyer context

BUVA's documented Bali offering belongs to hospitality: cliffside pool-villa accommodation at Alila Villas Uluwatu, a resort near Ubud and a coastal hotel in East Bali. Hyatt lists guest accommodation at these properties, not a schedule of privately saleable real-estate units.

No verified sales inventory, purchase prices, instalment terms or owner-return commitments for individual villas emerged from the official sources checked. A published room rate would not answer what a villa costs to buy, and a hotel's financial performance would not establish the net return on a separately owned unit.

The portfolio spans distinct visitor markets rather than a single residential development corridor. Alila Villas Uluwatu sits near Pecatu on the Bukit Peninsula in Badung; Alila Ubud is around Payangan in Gianyar; and Alila Manggis is on Bali's eastern coast in Karangasem. For an investor, these locations describe hotel exposure. They should not be read as evidence that BUVA is marketing homes in each area. Its separately acquired Uluwatu landholding also needs to be assessed on its own documents.

Delivery history
  • BUVA's experience is real, but not every hotel in the portfolio was developed by the group from the ground up. Its company history traces Alila Villas Uluwatu from land acquisition in 2004 to construction in 2006 and opening in 2009. Alila Ubud joined through the acquisition of an existing hotel's assets and operations in 2008; Alila Manggis was acquired in 2015. These are three resort businesses with different histories, not evidence of three completed residential schemes sold to individual owners. The distinction extends to the corporate structure. BUVA's 2024 reporting identifies Alila Villas Uluwatu and Alila Ubud with the parent company's operations, while Alila Manggis is associated with its subsidiary PT Mandra Alila. Its published timeline also records the 2018 disposal of a subsidiary that owned the Alila brand. A recognisable hotel name, the company behind the asset and the entity entitled to sign a property-sale agreement should not be assumed to be identical. There is a more recent property-development angle: in November 2025, BUVA acquired a 99.99% interest in PT Bukit Permai Properti, described by the company as a landowner in Uluwatu. The acquisition documents a landholding, not an approved villa scheme, a completion timetable or units offered for sale.

Observable track record

BUVA's experience is real, but not every hotel in the portfolio was developed by the group from the ground up. Its company history traces Alila Villas Uluwatu from land acquisition in 2004 to construction in 2006 and opening in 2009. Alila Ubud joined through the acquisition of an existing hotel's assets and operations in 2008; Alila Manggis was acquired in 2015. These are three resort businesses with different histories, not evidence of three completed residential schemes sold to individual owners.

The distinction extends to the corporate structure. BUVA's 2024 reporting identifies Alila Villas Uluwatu and Alila Ubud with the parent company's operations, while Alila Manggis is associated with its subsidiary PT Mandra Alila. Its published timeline also records the 2018 disposal of a subsidiary that owned the Alila brand. A recognisable hotel name, the company behind the asset and the entity entitled to sign a property-sale agreement should not be assumed to be identical.

There is a more recent property-development angle: in November 2025, BUVA acquired a 99.99% interest in PT Bukit Permai Properti, described by the company as a landowner in Uluwatu. The acquisition documents a landholding, not an approved villa scheme, a completion timetable or units offered for sale.

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Sources

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  • Company Overview / Milestones
  • Business Group
  • Registered Securities — BUVA
  • Annual and Sustainability Report 2024
  • Investor Relations
  • Alila Villas Uluwatu — Rooms
  • Alila Manggis
  • Alila Ubud — About the Resort
  • Government Regulation No. 18 of 2021 — Land Rights and Foreign Residential Ownership