Gran Canaria

Properties on this island: 55 · from 100.000 €

Area
1560 km²
Inhabitants
865.800
Highest point
1949 m · Pico de las Nieves
Winter sun
7 h
Main protected area
Reserva Natural de Inagua
Holiday-let quota
10 %

History

The conquest of Gran Canaria lasted five years, from 1478 to 1483, and was among the harshest: the islanders held out in the highlands. Las Palmas was founded in 1478 as Real de Las Palmas, and in 1492 Columbus called here on his way to the Americas. In the inland mountains stands Risco Caído, an aboriginal sanctuary with a solar calendar, UNESCO listed in 2019.

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Getting there and around

Official information

Properties on this island

Island guide

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OCTAVA THE PORTAL OF THE EIGHT ISLANDS

Canary Islands · eight islands, eight markets

Eight islands. One search.

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The gap nobody shows you

Asking price against real notarial closing price in the Canaries, €/m².

3.357 €/m² Average asking price, Canaries +7.8% year on year · all-time high Source: property portals, July 2026 report
2.177 €/m² Real closing price 2025 –30% vs asking: the figure nobody shows Source: Spanish Council of Notaries, 2025
24,5% Purchases by foreign buyers IT · DE · UK · PL · BE Source: Association of Land Registrars, 2025
100% Listings published with document verification Cadastre + land registry + identity OCTAVA rule: no verification, no listing

Results

One property, one listing (deduplicated by cadastral reference). Every listing shows whether it has a floor plan, how long the advertiser takes to reply and when it was last checked.

Holiday-rental traffic light · Law 6/2025

A 10% cap on the residential housing stock per municipality, 20% on the green islands (La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro). Checked against the Canary Islands Tourism Registry.

What is a home worth across the eight islands?

An estimate from comparables in the catalogue, island by island, with the adjustment almost nobody shows: what you ask for, and what actually closes before a notary.

Investor mode

Gross yield per micro-zone computed on real notarial closing prices, not asking prices. Three scenarios, because Law 6/2025 changes which one is viable.

Method: notarial closing (Notaries 2025) + rents published on portals 2026

For professionals

The same estimate, with unlimited queries and a PDF report carrying the agency’s own branding, to take into a listing pitch.

The eight islands, one by one

Every island is a different market: its climate, its protected land, its holiday-rental quota and its kind of buyer. This is what a mainland portal will not tell you.

Protection designations: Spanish National Parks network, UNESCO and the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

For agencies and independent advisers

Each plan switches on specific tools. Whatever is not in your plan stays visible, switched off, so you know what you are missing.

If the adviser leaves the agency

Their video is deactivated automatically and they decide whether to reactivate it with their new agency. Properties and enquiries stay with the agency: they belong to the business, not the person.