So, you’ve decided to sell your Gran Canaria property and now you are wondering how to choose a good estate agent. It’s an important decision as picking the right agency has a big impact on the sale process and on both the speed of sale and the price you get. If you want to sell…
While many of the Gran Canaria’s large furniture shops are in Las Palmas and along the motorway, the south has some excellent options. Muebles Pepe Jesus has shops in San Fernando and Vecindario and a warehouse store in the Poligono Industrial de Arinaga. It sells a range of good value furniture and furnishings and household…
Getting the market value of your Gran Canaria property right is a vital step towards selling at the best possible price. However, it’s not an easy thing to do without experience and access to the right information. A sale price that is too low makers buyers cautious and invites lowball offers. They assume that the…
We are proud to announce a big improvement in the service that Cárdenas Real Estate offers property sellers: The most accurate Gran Canaria property valuations As part of our continuous drive to improve, we now have access to the Real Estate Appraisal App from the Spanish College of Registrars. This gives us access to all property…
If you own a Gran Canaria property in a building or on a complex with multiple owners, you have to know about the Comunidad de Propietarios and how it works. What is the comunidad? Every residential building or complex in Gran Canaria has a comunidad de propietarios or community of owners, governed by rules set…
Popular Puerto Rico is a sunny resort in south Gran Canaria with something for everybody; from golden beaches and pretty marinas to sea view apartments and a lively social scene. Where in South Gran Canaria is Puerto Rico Puerto Rico is in south-west Gran Canaria about halfway between Playa del Ingles and Puerto de Mogan…
Public outcry and pressure from associations and groups of concerned citizens has delayed a vote in the Canarian parliament about a controversial new law governing holiday rentals. The new draft law, known as PL-0005, tried to make it illegal to rent out private property in resort areas of the Canary Islands. This is despite judgements…
The single most important thing you can do when you sell a Gran Canaria property is to display it with quality photos. This is because most property buyers these days start their search online on websites and property portals. For the Gran Canaria property market, where many buyers live abroad and search from home, quality…
In our Sea Breeze complex here in Puerto Rico, today’s birthday song will be sung very loudly to our regular tenant Berit. She is no less than 80 years old today! For 40 years, Berit Irene (and her husband Bjørnar) owned and ran a yarn and fabric store outside of Tønsberg. “In fact, I would…
In December 2018 and January 2019, respectively, the Spanish Supreme Court issued judgments against the Government of the Canary Islands regarding the current regulation of holiday homes. These judgments cancel the following three rules of said regulations: 1) Prohibition of holiday rental homes in tourist areas This ban has been annulled in a very clear…
