How are apartments in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, our children asked us.
Did you find one was the next question.
We were looking at many apartments in Puerto de la Cruz. The year was 1997.
In less than a week we saw roughly a dozen of them including general property in north Tenerife in surrounding areas. Reason being, the town of the sleepy little harbor with hardly more than 60 000 inhabitants, is not like Santa Cruz city.
Adjacent towns like Los Realejos are so close that they had to be part of our holiday home Tenerife search. However, the majority of the holiday havens we found were studios or, studios with separate bedroom. The north of the island has plenty of those. Especially in Puerto's hub. Why?
The town where we firstly concentrated our real estate search on is the oldest tourist resort in Tenerife.
I would like to show you some typical streets, all part of the hub. Why? Many a Tenerife holiday-home in the hub was up for sale in those streets.
That’s lovely Calle La Hoya. It may get a little noisy at night, in some of its street sections.
We found all sorts of Tenerife apartments in this street and nearby. Most of the apartments on sale were tiny. One was dirty, another one was come down.
Sometimes, we didn't like a building or its location.
In 1997, we inspected
no Tenerife holiday home accommodation for sale that was in hotels. In my page on luxury Tenerife apartments you may see a photo of an 'aparthotel'. You can buy property there, on occasion.
I must give credit to our real estate agents. They showed us much Tenerife property in a very helpful and professional manner.
Tenerife Holiday homes
were everywhere
Some may be of may of better quality when the owner is spending time there himself. He then, usually cares much more about looks, comfort and cleanliness of a holiday home. One apartment in Puerto de la Cruz that we quite liked had a a beautiful garden and pool. However, some little things like the door of a lift made us wonder if the building was well looked after and maintained. This, by the way, is a topic I will deal with later. Our holiday home hunt went on. By now, we had seen many apartments in Puerto de la Cruz. But we had not found what we wanted in the short time that we spent there.
Then,
Inmobiliaria Internacional (English is spoken), Real estate Agents in Puerto de la Cruz, showed us something slightly different. What was it? They, now, were branching out
for us to show us one real estate object
that did not really belong to the group
apartments in Puerto de la Cruz.
It was an atico. As said, it didn’t belong at all to the category apartments in Puerto de la Cruz but, it kind of was part of
luxury apartments. A little driving is needed, said the agent. It was true. Oh, I beg your pardon. Do you know what an atico is? An atico is a penthouse apartment in Spain. So what sort of an atico did we find? We found an apartment that was a total surprise, although I had my mind onto apartments in Puerto de la Cruz.
When we walked in through the front door, we immediately, had such an incredible view, within inches from the door. Would you believe it? The large glass door leading outside was hiding nothing. Oh, and the balcony was huge.
From there, we could not see any apartments in Puerto de la Cruz, particularly, but lots of buildings. Houses belonged to Los Realejos Bajo as well as to Puerto de la Cuz. And, of course, Atlantic everywhere, the Rincon (bay), as well as mountains... To be honest, we could not have afforded any of the apartments in Puerto de la Cruz with ocean and general view. Ocean was everywhere. By the way, the first picture on top of this page is showing you the late afternoon view from this atico holiday home in Tenerife. The light is really like that. It has not been done in Photoshop. Soon, after the solstice before the end of June, the sun's position will change. No more such magic, then, hovering over many of the apartments in Puerto de la Cruz and elsewhere... Before I forget. The penthouse was not very big, only the balcony was. Now, we were forgetting all about apartments in Puerto de la Cruz. Who would have thought that, ever? Ours had one bedroom with large built in cupboards, one bathroom as well as a nicely fitted, separate kitchen. Lounge and entrance all in one. My husband and I were happy. Instead of finding something in the selection of apartments in Puerto de la Cruz, we now had an alternative. We had found property in North Tenerife about 7 minutes on foot from the beautiful hiking path by the legendary ruin.. The atico-apartment was pretty central and had many shops and bus routes nearby which are all good points for the apartment which we then bought. The holiday home hunt was over for us. Now, the fun part had come to an end. property documentation was to be done and pay-day was due. Buying in the name of the children would never have been an option in 1997. They were too young. Little did we also know that the property law Spain would change in 2008. From then on much could be saved on inheritance later. If you did not read yet what happened to our friends, Richard and Sonia, well,
you may go from here to the oldie townhouse in La Orotava Tenerife.
For apartments in Puerto de la Cruz or surroundings and any, other type of residential property
please, call Mrs. Plambeck.
who speaks English well. Her and her husband who also deal in real estate
are extremely honest people
Tel. + 34 922 385153
You will also get first class advice there from people that are clued up with the law and foreigner questions. Only, in very extreme cases you will need a lawyer in which case they will tell you. What can go wrong when you buy Tenerife property with 'uso fructo' or other strings attached? Not that uso fructo means something wrong in the first place... Above apartment is in top condition. It is very well laid out as well as very practical. It would not only make an ideal holiday home in Tenerife. It would also be good for steady living. The Tenerife resale property on west coast with beaches nearby is ideal all year round as there are so many things to do such as watersports and easy tours and it is for sale directly. The apartment belongs to a very good friend of mine and I can guaranty that also in this case you will need no lawyer.
Did you know that you can inquire about apartments or, any other question you are having at Tenerife Forum? The other day I was approached with lots from a guy in England who used my contact form of my HomePage. The work situation was of main interest to him. Later, I referred the forum to him although he told me that he didn't like any of the forums on Tenerife which he had found. He came back to me again a day later saying that he quite liked Tenerife forum because most opinions on work he found in there tallied with mine. Oh, and, he said that he will get himself an apartment in Puerto de la Cruz when coming here.
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