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How to Find a Long-Term Villa Rental in Bali: Where to Look and What to Send

Where Bali’s monthly and yearly villa rentals are listed, the five facts a request needs to get useful replies, and why the first question about any listing is its price and term.

Published 13 October 2026 · Updated 13 October 2026 · 5 min read

The short answer

Long-term villa rentals in Bali are found through agencies’ listings, listing sites and community groups on Facebook, Telegram and WhatsApp. A request that states budget per month, area, bedrooms, move-in date and length of stay gets matching villas back; one that says “looking for a villa in Canggu” gets adverts.
Ask for the price and the term first. Of 1,533 villa rentals listed by Baliestate’s partner agencies on 6 October 2026, only 554 (36%) stated a monthly price; the rest gave a yearly or nightly rate, or none.
Monthly and yearly prices for the same villa differ by design, because a year paid up front normally costs less per month. Compare like with like, and never divide a yearly price by twelve and call it the monthly rent.
Pay nothing before you have seen the villa, the person’s right to rent it out and a written contract, and pay into a company account where you can.

Where are long-term rentals in Bali actually listed?

Most people use two or three of these at once. Listing sites are best for knowing the going rate; groups and signs find villas that never reach a website.

Where	What you find	Watch out for
Agency websites	Each agency’s own villas, often with yearly terms	Stale listings; one agency’s stock only
Listing sites, including Baliestate	Many agencies’ villas side by side, by area	Prices quoted in different terms and currencies
Community groups (Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp)	Owners, agents and departing tenants	Many replies are adverts; deposits requested before a viewing
Driving the area	“Disewakan” (for rent) signs on the gate	No written terms until you call

What should a rental request say?

Agents and owners match on five things. State all of them in the first message and the replies will fit; leave them out and the first reply is a question.

Budget per month, in rupiah, and whether it includes bills.
Area, with one or two alternatives (Berawa or Pererenan, not “Canggu area”).
Bedrooms, and anything you cannot do without: a pool, a workspace, a dog.
Move-in date.
Length of stay: six months, a year, longer.

Monthly or yearly: which price are you looking at?

A Bali villa can carry a nightly, a monthly and a yearly price at once, and listings often show only one of them without saying which. On 6 October 2026 just over a third of the villa rentals in Baliestate’s partner listings stated a monthly price. Baliestate’s rent figures use only stated monthly rents; it does not convert yearly or nightly rates, because the result would be a price the owner never offered.

When you compare two villas, ask each for the monthly price on your term and the yearly price paid up front, and what each includes: electricity, internet, cleaning, pool and garden, and the banjar (village) fee. The contracts guide lists what to read twice.

What happens when you enquire through Baliestate?

Each rental on Baliestate names the agency that lists it and shows its rent against the median of similar villas in the same area. An enquiry reaches that agency: the WhatsApp button opens the agency or Baliestate’s assistant, and a viewing request goes to the listing agency, with Baliestate’s team seeing every request so one that no agency can receive is passed on by hand.

The assistant, on WhatsApp and Telegram, searches the partner listings with you, asks the same five questions an agent would, and can book a viewing. If a WhatsApp enquiry about a listing stops before a booking, it is passed to the listing’s agency after about an hour, so you are not left waiting on a chat that went quiet. If nothing fits yet, an area page can send you new matching villas by Telegram or a daily email; Baliestate does not send unsolicited WhatsApp messages.

What should you check before paying a deposit?

See the villa in person, or on a live video call with someone you trust, not only in photos.
Ask who owns the villa and, if you are renting from a tenant or a manager, for the document that lets them sublet.
Get a written contract with the term, the price, what is included, the deposit and how it is returned.
Pay a company or the owner’s account against a receipt; be wary of a deposit to a personal account before any viewing.
Record the villa’s condition at move-in with dated photos.

Common questions

What is the best way to find a long-term rental in Bali?

Use a listing site to learn the going rate in your area, then post or send a request with your monthly budget, area, bedrooms, move-in date and length of stay. Requests with all five get matching villas back instead of adverts.

Is it cheaper to rent a Bali villa yearly or monthly?

Yearly, paid up front, is normally cheaper per month for the same villa. Ask for both prices on the same villa rather than comparing a yearly price on one listing with a monthly price on another.

Why do so many Bali rental listings have no monthly price?

Many quote only a yearly or nightly rate, or no price at all. On 6 October 2026 only 554 of 1,533 villa rentals in Baliestate’s partner listings (36%) stated a monthly price.

Should I pay a deposit before viewing a Bali rental?

No. Pay after a viewing, against a written contract and a receipt, into the owner’s or a company’s account.

The 36% figure counts the 1,533 active villa rentals of Baliestate’s partner agencies as extracted on 6 October 2026, the same snapshot the syndication guide uses; it does not update itself. Enquiry handling is described as it works on 13 October 2026.