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A quiet historic street in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife: pastel colonial houses with carved wooden balconies, a stone church tower, soft overcast light.
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A university city with a UNESCO-listed old town, ten minutes above Santa Cruz and right next to Tenerife North airport.

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Part of the islandSanta Cruz & La Laguna
Homes for sale with us2
Asking prices€295.000 – €980.000
TownsPunta del Hidalgo, Bajamar, La Laguna

The historic centre of San Cristóbal de La Laguna has been a World Heritage Site since 1999. Its grid of streets, laid out in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, became a model for colonial towns in the Americas. Today the streets are full of students, bookshops and small bars.

The tram runs down to Santa Cruz, and the motorways towards the north and south start here. Outside the old town you find ordinary residential neighbourhoods, which makes La Laguna one of the few places on the island where daily life does not revolve around tourism.

Town guide

Tegueste

Population
11,490 in 2025 (+3.4% since 2015)
Tenerife North airport
11 km, 17 min
Tenerife South airport
77 km, 72 min
La Villa shopping centre
30 km, 29 min
Santa Cruz
18 km, 23 min
Supermarkets include
SuperDino, Altesa, Unide, Udaco
Homes for sale
29, with a typical asking price of €443,000

The place. A small farming valley behind La Laguna, on the edge of the Anaga mountains, with no coastline of its own. It feels rural, yet La Laguna and the airport are only minutes away. The main parts are the old centre, El Socorro in the lower valley, and Pedro Álvarez towards Anaga.

What's for sale. Mostly detached houses, often with land, at a typical €610,000. The market is small, with 29 homes.

Homes for sale, 1 November 2026

TypeHomesTypical asking priceMiddle halfTypical sizeAsking per m²
Detached houses18€608,000€399,000 to €799,000332 m²€1,440

Too few to quote a typical price: flats (4), town houses (4), semi-detached (3).

Recorded sale prices, last 12 months

TypeSalesAverage priceAverage sizePer m²
Flats31€182,00086 m²€2,110
Houses27€277,000211 m²€1,320

Market movement. We have counted this town only since 13 October, too short to read a trend. So far, out of 30 homes: left the portal 3, price cut 0.

Who it suits. Families and professionals who work in La Laguna or Santa Cruz and want a garden and countryside.

Check before buying.

  • No tram reaches the valley, so you will rely on the car, with buses to neighbouring towns.
  • The eastern side borders the protected Anaga park, so check what can be built.
  • It is cooler and cloudier than the coast, so check damp in older houses.

Town guide

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Population
161,108 in 2025 (+5.4% since 2015)
Tenerife North airport
4 km, 6 min
Tenerife South airport
70 km, 61 min
La Villa shopping centre
26 km, 20 min
Santa Cruz
11 km, 11 min
Supermarkets include
Mercadona, Lidl, Aldi, Alcampo, HiperDino, SuperDino, Spar, Altesa, Unide, Covirán
Homes for sale
333, with a typical asking price of €310,000

The place. The island's university city and its former capital, with a historic centre on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1999. At about 550 metres, it is cooler, wetter and cloudier than the coast. With 161,000 residents, it is more a collection of places than one town: the old city, the dense La Cuesta and Taco on the Santa Cruz side, the farm valleys of Tejina and Valle de Guerra, the sea at Bajamar and Punta del Hidalgo, and the airport area around Guamasa and Los Baldíos.

What's for sale. A large market of 333 homes, and the most active we track: more than a quarter of the homes listed in mid-September had gone by November. Taco and Los Majuelos are the most affordable part of town, mostly flats. The historic city and nearby Gracia ask around €3,000 per square metre. Bajamar and Punta del Hidalgo ask about the same for a flat near the sea pools.

Homes for sale, 1 November 2026

TypeHomesTypical asking priceMiddle halfTypical sizeAsking per m²
Flats183€259,000€188,000 to €310,00093 m²€2,650
Town houses46€380,000€300,000 to €550,000166 m²€2,190
Semi-detached18€375,000€250,000 to €515,000200 m²€1,970
Detached houses86€550,000€408,000 to €800,000295 m²€2,100

Where prices differ

NeighbourhoodHomesTypical asking priceAsking per m²
Historic city and centre101€380,000€2,920
La Cuesta59€250,000€2,470
Taco / Los Majuelos53€190,000€2,080
Guamasa / Los Baldíos32€502,000€1,840
Bajamar / Punta del Hidalgo25€280,000€2,920
Tejina / Valle de Guerra17€395,000€2,070
Gracia16€309,000€3,110
Las Mercedes11€365,000€2,160
Geneto9€250,000€1,470

Recorded sale prices, last 12 months

TypeSalesAverage priceAverage sizePer m²
Flats899€173,00089 m²€1,950
Houses250€320,000196 m²€1,630
New homes, all types63€234,00091 m²€2,570

Market movement. Of 327 homes listed on 16 September, 27% had left the portal by 1 November and 14% had cut their price (typically by 5.5%). Another 114 new listings were still for sale on 1 November.

Portal price index. The portal's own index for the town was +18.5% over the year to May 2026, at about €2,220 per m². This is an index of what sellers ask, and it swings in small markets.

Rents. 42 flats listed for rent ask a typical €1,025 a month for 84 m². Per square metre, that is about 5.7% a year of the typical flat's asking price, before costs and tax.

Who it suits. Families, professionals and landlords. Students create steady rental demand: the university has about 17,000 undergraduates, and flats ask around €1,025 a month. The tram to Santa Cruz, a university hospital and big supermarkets make it the easiest place on this list to live without driving far.

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For sale

Homes in La Laguna

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For sale

€980.000

Villa Mar de Fondo

Bajamar

4 bed · 260 m² · sea pools nearby

For sale

€295.000

Apartment Casco Histórico

La Laguna

2 bed · 84 m² · old town

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How long the licence takes

If you want to build or renovate, this is the biggest variable, and it depends almost entirely on the town hall. These are our estimates, not measurements.

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TownTypical caseHard case
La Laguna4–8 months12–24 months

Selling

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How to read the numbers
  • 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.
What applies in every town

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.

Sources

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.