Friday 28 de August de 2026 · Macaronesia
With around 700 residents, sandy streets and a housing stock that can barely grow within the Chinijo Archipelago Natural Park, the eighth Canary Island is watc…
With new housing off the table, owners and authorities are increasingly looking at renovating the traditional single-storey houses as the only real way to expa…
Several kilometres from Caleta de Sebo and with barely any settled population for much of the year, the island's second inhabited settlement poses a different …
With several ferry operators crossing the mere twenty minutes of sea separating Órzola from La Graciosa every day, the weight of holiday rentals is growing in …
Being born in Caleta de Sebo is no guarantee of being able to stay and live there: young Graciosans wanting to set up their own home compete for a handful of h…
All planning decisions for La Graciosa depend on a council based in Lanzarote, which according to municipal sources hampers the agility needed to resolve the i…
The protected status covering La Graciosa and its islets rules out almost any expansion of the built-up area, which has kept the number of homes available on t…
With just a handful of sales a year, the price per square metre in Caleta de Sebo runs at figures comparable to — or higher than — those in established tourist…
Families from Arrecife, Haría or Teguise who bought or inherited a house on La Graciosa decades ago keep homes that only open during holidays, further reducing…
The lack of affordable housing forces much of La Graciosa's service-sector workforce to share flats, commute daily from Lanzarote, or give up working on the is…
Without a permanent submarine power link or an unlimited drinking water supply, any real expansion of Caleta de Sebo's housing stock first depends on resolving…