Real estate in Tenerife employs its own Spanish property jargon.
Understand real estate in Tenerife terms by relevant photos and translation of Spanish property expressions into English... The glossary for Spanish real estate does not show condos or flats, as those words are not used in Tenerife real estate.You may see casa de vacaciones Tenerife in rare instances which is a holiday home in Tenerife. Did you come here by mistake and rather want to see a resort property to buy? Here is a stunning Los Gigantes property going cheap directly from owner, as he already works on another island.
Real estate in Tenerife Spanish terms translated and more.
Here, you see a row of modern townhouses. Modern townhouses take up a big chunk in real estate in Tenerife. The inside and outside features of adosadas vary. Usually, they come with small balconies. New Tenerife townhouses Un áticoRead a review of a penthouse near Puerto de la Cruz...It may be an apartment of any size. A penthouse called ático in Spanish is always on the last floor. No other apartments are above it. Some Tenerife áticos are on top of a flat roof building.
The private grounds Not all have garages. Some have a backyard patio. Olden day townhouses have indoor patios and sometimes also back gardens like some old amazing Orotava townhouses . Some, even have a cellar in the basement. Some have a tiny front garden. Others are paved up in front.
Some casonas are restaurants today like the one in the photo of Puerto de la Cruz. It's inviting front shows with another restaurant in a holiday 1997. You are seeing The upper floor
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Not only the modern resorts by Las Americas and Los Christianos offer many studio apartments. Puerto de la Cruz central has many. See some photos of different types of self catering Tenerife apartments, very close to the oldest Tenerife resort. The latter serve tourists and residents who want a different setting, which is not touristic.
A studio in Tenerife may have an open plan American kitchen inside the living room. I have seen a studio that had 3 cupboards with a couple of built in hot plates as well as a sink and, a small fridge within the entrance passage. The kitchen may be semi separate like in this picture which A studio may have a separate full bathroom. However, it may only have a shower cubicle, toilet and, wash basin. The smallest studio I have seen had 26 square meters.
Information on the Backpackers' lodge 'Refugio del Teide' may be found in page Teide excursions.
I have seen a few cabanas not far from Agua Mansa on the Orotava Teide mountain road. One of the cabanas burned down in the forest during Tenerife wildfires. One could see the cabana's debris and left overs of furniture in a Tenerife newspaper.
Tenerife apartments are often in new buildings that have a name. Such a building is then called Edificio (building) Carmen or whatever. Please, note that you must never forget to write down the name of a building in postal addresses... Street names and numbers are often hard to find by a postman. He is rather orientating himself with names of buildings or, bars nearby. That may sound funny, but, it's true. Here, you see a red Tenerife apartment building which is not old. To the left of it is a lovely yellow painted 'casita' (small house). The Tenerife house on your right doesn't have a building name. But one may see its house number by the front door. That house has 2 pisos (2 floors.) By the way, apartments are usually called pisos as well all over Spain. In Tenerife the term apartamentos which means apartments is rather used for a flat that has not more than 2 bed rooms. All real estate photos are not to be copied without consent of webmaster of this homepage. About Tenerife residential property:Following real estate in Tenerife building glossary are ways of buying Tenerife property with glossary terms explained.
Racist attitudes with Tenerife property:You should not encounter any racism related problems when you want to buy a holiday home in Tenerife, buy commercial property or, when renting real estate in Tenerife. Not to squeeze prices too much will help also, of course.
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In case you have not clicked above on townhouses in La Orotava would you like to see some great photos?Please, go from real estate in Tenerife to townhouses in la Orotava where you can also get an idea on how wealthy people were living in past centuries. To see Tenerife historic interior decorating best, however, go to Abaco with entertaining and events which could be a free standing townhouse or villa today but, was finca in the past.
Note on translation problems for Spanish real estate:The word residencia (residence)and related words are not used in real estate in Tenerife Spanish terms. It is only applied to old age homes (residencia de tercera edad) or for on campus student accommodation. One calls everything by its proper word in Spanish as outlined above or, one uses the term propriedad which is property or inmobiliaria which is real estate. However, the same terms are not used when applied to taxes. The Spanish language can be a hard nut to crack when it comes to real estate in Tenerife. Different terms might be used in South America.
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