Sanur is Bali's calm, established east-coast town — a gentle beach, a long seafront promenade and a settled expat community, minutes from the toll road and the island's main hospitals.
Sanur offers stability rather than hype: steady, year-round demand from long-stay and older visitors, good infrastructure, and less exposure to the boom-and-bust of the surf coast.
A quiet beach, seaside cafés, easy cycling and an unhurried, family-friendly feel.
Buyers prioritising calm, infrastructure and steady demand over trend-driven growth.
The rule is the same across Phuket, and it is the first thing to get straight before you look at anything in Sanur. A foreigner can own a condominium outright, freehold, with the title deed in their own name — not a lease, not a company, not a nominee arrangement.
Land is different. Foreigners cannot own it, which is why villas here involve long leases or company structures that need proper legal advice. Each building may sell up to 49% of its floor area freehold to non-Thais; past that, units go leasehold. So the freehold stock in any given Sanur building is finite, and worth checking which you are being offered before anything else.
Your own lawyer — not the developer's — should verify the title and the remaining foreign quota before money moves. How foreign ownership works →
The asking price in Sanur is not the number to budget against. On completion you will meet a transfer fee, and depending on how long the seller has held the property, either specific business tax or stamp duty, plus withholding tax. These are usually split between buyer and seller by negotiation, so who pays what is worth settling in writing early.
Then there are the running costs that decide whether the numbers work: a service charge billed per square metre each year, a one-off sinking fund contribution for major works, utilities, and insurance. On a hotel-managed home the operator also takes a share of rental income.
Our Thailand transfer fee calculator works out the purchase taxes on a specific figure, and the rental yield calculator takes a gross rent down to the net figure once those costs are in. Both are free and need no sign-up.
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See if you qualify →Through leasehold or a right-to-use title, yes; freehold land is reserved for Indonesian nationals. We explain the options on a call.
Sanur suits buyers who value stability — steady year-round demand, solid infrastructure and less volatility than Bali's trend-led surf towns.