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Vineyards on volcanic soil on the north coast of Tenerife near Tacoronte, low stone walls, white houses on the slope, the Atlantic beyond under broken clouds.
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Tacoronte & ElSauzal

Wine country on the north coast: vineyards, cliff-top villages and wide views over the Atlantic, with both Santa Cruz and the north airport close by.

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Part of the islandNorth coast
Homes for sale with us4
Asking prices€320.000 – €1.690.000
TownsTacoronte, El Sauzal

Tacoronte and El Sauzal are the heart of the Tacoronte-Acentejo wine region, the first on the Canary Islands to get its own denomination of origin. The Casa del Vino in El Sauzal is a good first stop.

The houses here are mostly villas and low-rise homes on the slopes, many with a view of the sea and, on clear days, of Teide. Mesa del Mar has a small sheltered beach at the foot of the cliffs. Because the TF-5 motorway runs right through, the area works well for people who commute to Santa Cruz or La Laguna.

Town guide

El Sauzal

Population
9,345 in 2025 (+4.6% since 2015)
Tenerife North airport
16 km, 15 min
Tenerife South airport
82 km, 70 min
La Villa shopping centre
14 km, 12 min
Santa Cruz
24 km, 21 min
Homes for sale
60, with a typical asking price of €630,000

The place. A small, well-kept town on the cliffs, with a landscaped clifftop park, the island's wine museum, and upper neighbourhoods including Ravelo. It is the first town east along the coast where you feel the pull of the capital: Santa Cruz is about 20 minutes away in free-flowing traffic.

What's for sale. The highest typical asking price in this guide, about €630,000, because nearly three in four listings are detached houses, typically asking about €860,000. Flats are few and modest at about €230,000. Recorded sales confirm a wealthier market: houses average about €407,000, the highest in the guide.

Homes for sale, 1 November 2026

TypeHomesTypical asking priceMiddle halfTypical sizeAsking per m²
Flats9€230,000€204,000 to €235,00094 m²€2,430
Semi-detached5€580,000€580,000 to €590,000256 m²€2,010
Detached houses44€858,000€590,000 to €1.30m306 m²€2,940

Too few to quote a typical price: town houses (2).

Recorded sale prices, last 12 months

TypeSalesAverage priceAverage sizePer m²
Flats11€293,000136 m²€2,160
Houses28€407,000241 m²€1,690

Market movement. We have counted this town only since 13 October, too short to read a trend. So far, out of 55 homes: left the portal 1, price cut 3.

Who it suits. Professionals working in the metropolitan area, and buyers who want a sea-view house with the airport 15 minutes away.

Check before buying.

  • Cliff-edge homes: ask for a ground and retaining-wall report.
  • The sea itself is largely out of reach here, as cliffs limit beach access.
  • Everyday shopping is small-scale in town, with bigger supermarkets in Tacoronte.

Town guide

Tacoronte

Population
24,619 in 2025 (+3.0% since 2015)
Tenerife North airport
13 km, 13 min
Tenerife South airport
79 km, 68 min
La Villa shopping centre
16 km, 14 min
Santa Cruz
20 km, 18 min
Supermarkets include
Mercadona, Lidl, HiperDino, Altesa
Homes for sale
153, with a typical asking price of €390,000

The place. The capital of the local wine region, with vineyards, a popular farmers' market and a town of about 24,600. It runs from the black-sand coast at Mesa del Mar and El Pris, through the vines and the centre, up to Agua García and its laurel forest.

What's for sale. A broad market. Santa Catalina is the expensive pocket, where typical homes ask over €1 million. The coast at Guayonje and Mesa del Mar has flats and houses at about €2,770 per square metre. The centre, around Los Naranjeros, is the most affordable part of town. Flats ask a typical €227,000, and large villas ask well over €1 million.

Homes for sale, 1 November 2026

TypeHomesTypical asking priceMiddle halfTypical sizeAsking per m²
Flats45€227,000€167,000 to €325,00098 m²€2,680
Town houses19€350,000€320,000 to €420,000159 m²€1,850
Semi-detached19€379,000€325,000 to €420,000141 m²€2,420
Detached houses70€730,000€490,000 to €1.08m280 m²€2,420

Where prices differ

NeighbourhoodHomesTypical asking priceAsking per m²
Town centre / Los Naranjeros47€390,000€2,040
Guayonje / Mesa del Mar41€325,000€2,770
Golf course / Agua García / Juan Fernández27€525,000€2,480
El Pris / Juan Fernández23€260,000€2,630
Santa Catalina15€1.08m€3,560

Recorded sale prices, last 12 months

TypeSalesAverage priceAverage sizePer m²
Flats97€188,00089 m²€2,110
Houses98€296,000171 m²€1,730
New homes, all types13€240,00088 m²€2,710

Market movement. Of 145 homes listed on 16 September, 24% had left the portal by 1 November and 17% had cut their price (typically by 4.5%). Another 52 new listings were still for sale on 1 November.

Portal price index. The portal's own index for the town was +26.1% over the year to May 2026, at about €2,440 per m². This is an index of what sellers ask, and it swings in small markets.

Who it suits. Commuters and families who want the capital and university close by, and wine and countryside lovers. It has the most complete everyday services between the valley and La Laguna, with Mercadona, Lidl and HiperDino.

Check before buying.

  • Mesa del Mar: the cliffs above the road and promenade have needed safety netting, so ask the town hall about its current status.
  • Upper areas such as Agua García are clearly cooler and wetter.
  • Vineyard land is usually rural land, with limits on building.

For sale

Homes in Tacoronte & El Sauzal

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Building plot

€320.000

Plot Los Naranjos

El Sauzal

1.100 m² · licence for 1 villa

For sale

€1.690.000

Villa Bajamar

Tacoronte

5 bed · 420 m² · pool

For sale

€640.000

Casa Canaria Los Balcones

El Sauzal

3 bed · 190 m² · wooden balconies

For sale

€1.380.000

Finca El Viñedo

Tacoronte

5 bed · vineyard · 1,2 ha

Building here

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
El Sauzal9–18 months18–24 months
Tacoronte12–24 months18–30 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.