Canary Island property for sale (online)
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Featured articleWhy Invest in Maspalomas, Gran CanariaLocated on the idyllic island of Gran Canaria, Maspalomas is undoubtedly one the most popular and well known reorts in the Canary Islands.As soon as properties become availabe here, they’re sold almost instantly to both homebuyers and investors. This area has fantastic potential both as a place to live and a place to invest. With year round sunshine, you can rent out your property here at tourist prices all year long.Gran Canaria is only the third largest of the Canary Islands but has the largest population. It’s known as the “Miniature Continent” because of it’s amazingly diverse landscape and climate. It has a warm climate, excellent beaches, spectacular landscape and a well developed infrastructure.
The resorts along the southern coast of Gran Canaria are generally the busiest. These include San Agustin, Playa del Ingles, Puerto Rico and Maspalomas.
Maspalomas is a sun and sea lover’s paradise. It’s famous for its massive golden sandy beach and huge sand dunes.
It’s a popular tourist area with all the facilities you’d expect from a modern resort. It’s got plenty of restaurants, bars, taverns, shopping centres, souvenirs and businesses etc.
Maspalomas is located beside one of the wildest places for nightlife on the island - Playa des Ingles. In Maspalomas however, the nightlife is lively and fun but always sophisticated.
One of the area’s most outstanding attractions has to be the Dunes Nature Reserve (a protected natural heritage site). Apart from the spectacular sand dunes there’s also a huge lagoon here along with marshlands and a diverse range of local inhabitants - everything from sand lizards to rabbits.
Maspalomas beach (one of the best on the island) is a ten kilometre stretch of fine golden sand that has been awarded “Blue Flag” status by the European Union. The Blue Flag award is given to any beach that displays a certain standard in terms of water quality, general cleanliness of the beach and range of facilities available.
The beach is cleaned every day and has lifegaurds on patrol. As well the many private beach clubs, Maspalomas also has a wide range of water sports facilities along with medical centres, bars, restaurants, and sun beds and parasols for hire.
It’s also home to one of the most important golf courses on Gran Canaria - Maspalomas golf course.
Maspalomas is the oldest tourist town in the south coast of the island. With a perfect year-round climate, cheap prices (compared to UK), growing expat community and good quality infrastructure, more and more people are choosing to make Maspalomas their second home. The quality of life here is excellent.
If you’re planning on investing or making a permanent move here, rest assured you’ll still find plenty of new developments and off-plan opportunities in this area.