The Mogán Town Hall is promoting its latest effort to make the area even more attractive to visitors and specifically to walkers with a new hiking route through many of its most beautiful natural areas. The Tamaranae route is thirty kilometres long and runs from the Degollada de Tasarte through Veneguera and onwards to Pueblo…
The Mogán Ayuntamiento has announced that local residents and property owners have until November 30 to make their voluntary municipal tax payments. The measure is designed to spread the financial burden of local taxes for residents and local businesses throughout the year. The latest on local tax changes that affect Gran Canaria property owners The…
The Jardín Canario Viera y Clavijo, Gran Canaria’s huge and very beautiful botanical garden, is now back open to the public with a safe car park. Until recently, visitors to the garden had to park by the GC 310 roadside to use the main entrance. This was inconvenient and often difficult at the weekends. However,…
Now that the United Kingdom of Great Britain has formally left the EU, there are a number of rule changes for British nationals living in Spain, or visiting for long periods. British residents living in Spain before 1 January 2021 If you are a British citizens who lived legally in Spain before 1 January 2021,…
British and non-EU property owners in Spain and the Canary Islands can stay for longer than 90 days with a Non-Lucrative Visa. EU citizens can spend as long as they please in their Gran Canaria property. However, non-EU and EEA citizens are limited to 90 days out of a rolling 180 day period unless they…
The Del Castillo family plans to invest 25.2 million euros in a luxury villa and hotel project called the Monteleón Canyon Spa Conference & Sport in the exclusive Monteleón area of south Gran Canaria. The first phase of the project includes a 154 room hotel, 37 independent suites with outdoor jacuzzis with leisure pool and…
This post is the first in a series of Gran Canaria property market reports that we plan to publish on a quarterly basis. It is based on the most recent statistics published by the Spanish Ministry of Development. In this case the figures corresponding to the 2nd quarter of 2020. Since this year is clearly…
The Canary Islands are the first region of Spain to offer all tourists free supplementary insurance that covers them in the case of exceptional holiday expenses caused by Covid-19. The policy covers all touristic visitors to the Canary Islands (during stays of up to 30 days in registered tourist accomodations) for medical, medical repatriation and…
The awaited State System benchmark index of rental prices has now been published using data collected from 11.2 million rental agreements during the last four years. Issued by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, it will be updated every year and will gather data on 1.7 million properties and 33,662 census sections. This…
The Ayuntamiento de Mogán has modified its 2020 tax calendar to delay several municipal tax payments, including IBI property tax, until October. Residents and non-resident property owners with direct debits set up with the Town Hall will now pay 100% of their IBI tax in October rather than 50% in May-June and 50% in October….
