Melayu: choose the exact address
Melayu makes sense as a housing search when you are specifically looking for the compact harbour-side old city and dense historic lanes. That is a more useful starting point than treating the name as a promise of one uniform neighbourhood. This is a central address with a local rhythm rather than a polished residential compound. The map shows a road-constrained catchment for comparison; it is not a legal boundary and it is not a claim that every street shares the same housing market.
What the map can tell you
OpenStreetMap records Melayu as a named place in the Makassar study area, and the city boundary is anchored on Kota Makassar relation 11243159. Those are useful location signals, not evidence of a rent band or an expat percentage. This guide therefore leaves those quantitative fields visibly unknown. Ask where a car or ride-hailing vehicle can actually stop. The district facts in the panel are deliberately short: they point to the questions a viewing should answer rather than pretending that a broad place name can answer them for you.
A careful viewing is worth more than a neat label
Makassar is hot, rainy and road-led, so the last few hundred metres often determine whether a location works. Walk the actual approach, note shade and drainage, ask where a pete-pete, taxi or ride-hailing vehicle can wait, and check how deliveries and parking work. If the home is beside a commercial, port, airport or construction corridor, visit at the time you would normally sleep. There is no comparable, dated neighbourhood rent research attached to this page; compare like-for-like listings yourself and treat asking prices as unverified until you have checked the building, tenure and utilities. Melayu can be a sensible choice, but the right decision lives in the exact street.