Acquire a home in Canary Islandsespecially in areas close to the urban center, is currently a significant challenge. The scarcity of properties available both for sale and for rent has caused an increase in prices that in many cases are unaffordable for a large part of the population. The figures confirm this: according to an analysis carried out by the Fotocasa portal, the price per square meter of housing in the Canary Islands has experienced an increase of 20% compared to the previous year.
This reality is supported by Paula, a 27-year-old girl living in Santa Cruz de Tenerifewho, despite having adequate financial resources (he has a university degree, a master’s degree and a salary above the average in the Canary Islands), cannot find a home in the area he is targeting in the capital, as reported in COPE Canarias.
Paula shared her experience in the program COPE Tenerife’s La Mañana, revealing that he has been “over a year looking for all the online offers and new construction projects, and it is an impossible task.” In reality, “available housing is often of terrible quality, and the few that do exist are beyond any reasonable budget.”
Questionable practices and deception
In addition, our protagonist denounces questionable practices and even deception that she has found in some cases. “I went to see a flat that had a pretty good price,” he mentions, “but when I got there I found the typical tricks: it was a room without an elevator, despite the fact that the ad didn’t mention anything about it, it didn’t even have a doorman automatic or mailbox”.
And as if that were not enough, “the building was under construction, and when buying it, I would have had to assume extraordinary expenses that the seller did not warn us about beforehand.” With disappointment, Paula concludes that “they always try to sell it to you with some hidden detail” and she is convinced that “the offer is really scarce, and finding something decent for less than 200,000 euros is very complicated”. In short, “you can only find studios without windows or premises adapted to live in, and some are in precarious conditions” , which means that “to find a home in good condition, you must get away from the center of Santa Cruz, since in the heart of the city it is practically impossible.”
