Monthly Archives: November 2008

Investors eye Tenerife for bargains

Springtime in Tenerife

Though never really scorching, Tenerife is pleasantly warm all year round (not for nothing is it known as ‘the Island of eternal Spring’). With tourism on the rise as, for many people, Spain simply gets too hot, sticky and crowded in the summer months.

In view of this, the occupancy of property in Tenerife is generally in the range of 70% and 90% allowing investors to make rental yields of around 8% depending on how much they use their properties themselves.

Capital appreciation on apartments is likely to be around 10% -15% annually when looking at the long term (10-15 years), this despite the recent downturn in the world’s economy.

While Tenerife’s property prices are slightly higher than some of the emerging markets, you are paying a

The lovely Parque Don Jose complex, Costa del Silencio

The lovely Parque Don Jose complex, Costa del Silencio

little extra for the safety of buying a property that you can use/rent-out straight away, and in a secure, established environment which also has a well developed infrastructure already geared up for tourism, making the property easy to market for holiday rentals.

Just one example of the opportunities in Tenerife is the suburb of Costa del Silencio, where planning permission was recently granted for a new five star hotel with an artificial beach and a spa. This clearly suggests that the area is seen as a new growth area. Also in Costa del Silencio, the lovely Parque Don José complex has just received an EU grant to be used for making a massive upgrade to the resort, which of course will push prices upwards.

Now is probably the time to buy in Tenerife’s Costa del Silencio as prices have fallen dramatically over the last few months (as they have throughout the world).

Golf Property Investment in Tenerife

Many golfers who enjoy coming to Tenerife year after year will have noticed that the quality of the golf courses is improving. Originally, Golf del Sur and Amarilla Golf were THE courses to visit, but they have been taken over both in quality and length by Abama, Golf Costa Adeje, Los Cristianos Golf and Buenavista. As these venues mature and the planned new courses come on stream, Tenerife will grow to be as important a golf holiday venue as Southern Spain and Portugal (and perhaps even Florida and the Carolinas).

As a result of this, eventually property prices will reflect the game’s popularity here and maybe, just maybe, this might be a good time to have a look at properties here on the Island of Eternal Spring!

For a great selection of properties for sale near Adeje Golf Course, visit The Tenerife Property Guide.

Expat Health in Tenerife

This subject recently came up when a group of golfers came over for a golfing break. Sod’s Law dictated that it was the one chap who hadn’t taken out Travel Insurance who fell over and badly twisted his ankle. The exercise cost him several hundred Euros at the local A&E clinic!

European Health Insurance CardTake note that everyone can have the new (from January 1, 2006) European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), which allows holders to be treated by Tenerife’s local Health Service as though they are resident here.

For more information on how to apply for the Card, visit Health Care in Tenerife.

Beaches in Tenerife

Las Americas beach

Las Americas beach

If you are a  golf widow or widower, you might like to spend some time on one of the beaches in Tenerife while your partner is getting stressed on the course! The island of Tenerife has a wide variety of beaches, from the black, volcanic sand one at El Medano, to lovely white, imported sand such as those in Las Americas and Los Cristianos.

Golf in Tenerife

Welcome to our new Blog – created with a view to helping golfers of any standard organise a golfing break, or just to have a game whilst in Tenerife on holiday. Our main goal is to provide useful information on golf courses and the various Golf Societies here on the island, with the hope that they will keep us posted with information on their forthcoming competitiions/events.

To start things off, I thought I’d simply list the various courses, with a link to their website, and, another day, I will start to add some basic information on each course together with the contact details of the Golf Societies I’ve discovered.

For such a small island, Tenerife is blessed with 8 full courses and one par-3 track (plus a number under construction). The courses are (in alphabetical order):

Abama Golf Resort

Amarilla Golf and Country Club

Buenavista Golf

Golf Costa Adeje

Golf del Sur

Golf Las Americas

La Rosaleda Golf Club

Los Palos (par 3)

Real Club de Golf, Tenerife

In addition to useful information on, say, the price of a round at each of the courses, or the cost of hiring equipment, we plan to publish information on Hotel Special Deals, Flights, Car Hire, Things to Do if you are a golf ‘widow’ (or ‘widower’!), a ‘Where are They Now?’ section for our old heroes (if you are my age, they will certainly be ‘old’!), golf ‘funnies’, and any other golf-related category that emerges.

That’s all for now, and we look forward to your helping in the growth of our blog (TPG- Tenerife = Those who’d love to Play Golf – in Tenerife)