Garachico & LosSilos

• Homes for sale is what we counted on the main property portal on 1 November 2026. A home listed twice at the same size and price counts once.
• Typical asking price is the middle listing: half ask more, half ask less. The middle-half range cuts off the cheapest and dearest quarters.
• Recorded sale prices come from Spain's notaries: an average over the 12 months up to about late summer 2026. Notaries see every sale, including older homes that never reach the portals, and very expensive sales are underweighted. So the gap between sale and asking figures is not the discount a buyer should expect. It mostly shows that the two sets contain different homes.
• Market movement runs from the first week we had a complete count of the town. A home that left the portal may have sold, or the owner may have withdrawn it. Eight towns have about six weeks of history; nine have under three, which is too short to read anything into.
• Drive times are calculated routes in free-flowing traffic. Allow more at rush hour, especially on the TF-5.
• Rents are asking rents, shown only where at least 10 flats were listed.

Holiday lets. The Canary Islands law of December 2025 (Law 6/2025) changed the sums for anyone buying for holiday income. Do not assume a home can be let to tourists because the seller does it today.

• A new holiday let on residential land needs a home at least 10 years old, unless the town's plan lowers that.
• Where a town has no specific plan, holiday-let beds are capped at 10% of the residents in each population centre and each census section. Detached homes are allowed in principle. Rural settlements have their own density limits. Municipalities classed as facing depopulation get softer limits (five years and 20%).
• A building's statutes or its owners' vote can rule it out.
• New permissions last five years and then need renewing.
• Holiday lets already registered have transition rules: owners who run their own can apply to keep the use within five years, and others have five years, extendable to ten at most in specific cases.
• A declared stressed housing zone suspends new holiday lets automatically.

Each town is still working out its own plan, so ask the town hall about the specific address.

Near the sea. Spain's Coastal Law restricts building and renovation in a strip behind the shoreline, generally 100 metres and 20 metres in some older urban areas. Check before buying anything close to the water.

Rural land. The north has many houses on farm terraces. What you may build, extend or legalise depends on how the land is classed, so check with the town's planning office before you rely on any extension or plot potential.

Weather. The north coast is greener, cloudier and more humid than the south, and mild all year. Altitude matters more than the map suggests: a few hundred metres uphill can mean more cloud and cooler evenings. Damp is a real point to check in older houses.

Market figures: our own weekly count of the main property portal (asking prices, to 1 November 2026) and Spain's notaries' published sale prices. Population: Spain's national statistics office, INE, 2015 and 2025. Drive times: calculated with OSRM on OpenStreetMap roads. Supermarkets and pharmacies: OpenStreetMap, which may miss some shops. Links in the text point to the source for each local fact.