Mertasari Villas by Island Living

Casa Aurea is the social, hacienda-influenced option. Its published description centres on stone finishes, archways, extensive terraces and a substantial pool with a slide. Villa Terra takes a different approach: tropical planting, a close connection between indoor and outdoor space, and a water feature below an external area. The developer has not clearly identified a swimming pool for Villa Terra in the project text. A buyer should therefore avoid treating the pool at Casa Aurea as a facility shared by both properties.

The website gives six bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms for each villa, but it does not provide complete floor plans. This matters more with a large house than it might first appear. Bedroom count does not show which rooms offer privacy, how many require stairs, whether staff and service functions are separated from guest space, or how the living areas behave in the wet season. A design that feels open and inviting for a weekend gathering might need a closer look before it becomes a full-time family home.

Scale is one of the least settled parts of the public information. Island Living presents Mertasari as a two-villa development spanning 914 sqm. On the same project page, Casa Aurea has a stated total of 1,112 sqm, accompanied by 400 sqm of internal space and 712 sqm of external areas. These measurements may describe different categories or levels, but no survey or measuring convention is supplied. The 914 sqm headline cannot safely be divided between the two properties or read as the land conveyed with either one.

Villa Terra's figures are harder to reconcile. The page calls it a 716 sqm villa while separately displaying 360 sqm and 97 sqm in its area specifications. Those figures do not explain the stated total, and the accessible page text does not clearly pair each figure with its internal or external label. Rather than quietly replacing one number with another, the sensible approach is to preserve the quoted information and leave the area comparison open until measured drawings and the relevant plot documentation are available. Asking for those documents is not a formality when two large homes have markedly different advertised sizes.

The geographical description is also intentionally broad. The company's portfolio calls Mertasari a Sanur beachside development. Mertasari Beach is a recognised coastal area in southern Sanur, within Denpasar, and local government material places the beach in Sanur Kauh. That supports the surrounding neighbourhood context, not the cadastral location of these two villas. No reliable public street address or plot pin was identified for the project, so a walking time, beachfront claim or mapped site coordinate would be speculation.

The portfolio is marked 2025. It would be a mistake to treat this as a verified completion date or evidence of handover in 2025. The accessible pages do not include a dated completion certificate, a sale notice for either home, a current inventory or a price list. The brand is clearly associated with the design and development portfolio, and its own website describes Island Living Developments as a development and delivery business. That still leaves a separate question: which legal entity owns the land rights and would actually sign a sale or lease agreement for a particular villa?

Ownership needs to be resolved at the document level rather than inferred from the terminology of other Bali listings. Indonesian land title, use rights and contractual leases are different arrangements. A foreign buyer cannot simply assume that Hak Milik, the Indonesian freehold land title, can be registered directly in their own name. Hak Pakai, a right of use, and other structures depend on the property and buyer's circumstances; none has been evidenced for Casa Aurea or Villa Terra. The public website gives no lease commencement date, expiry, renewal wording or chain between any company and the underlying title.

Nor does the presentation establish the permits relevant to construction and use. PBG concerns building approval, while SLF concerns the building's fitness for use; land-use compatibility is a separate matter. Their absence from a website is not evidence that they do not exist. It means a purchaser has no basis to assume they have been verified. This is particularly important if the plan is to rent the villa to paying guests rather than use it as a private residence, because the applicable permissions and operating arrangements need to match the intended activity.

Island Living also publishes projected development-investment returns elsewhere in its marketing. Those projections cannot be carried across to a buyer's expected rental yield or resale result. A two-house project has no published operating record here showing room nights, nightly rates, management fees, staffing, maintenance or owner-use restrictions. The most defensible conclusion is narrow but useful: Mertasari is an identifiable pair of architecturally different, large villas in Sanur, with enough detail to begin a focused enquiry, and not enough verified commercial or legal material to price a purchase responsibly.