Investing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 7 €/m²/month in rent and 4.1% gross yield
Buying in Santa Cruz de Tenerife costs 2,155 €/m² on average and renting goes for 7 €/m² a month, leaving a gross yield of 4.1% before costs and taxes. It is essentially the Spanish average (4.2%), with purchase prices above the Spanish average.
The map of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Its municipalities, coloured by gross yield. Grey ones publish too little data.
Administrative boundaries from the Spanish National Geographic Institute (CC BY 4.0). The Canary Islands are drawn shifted, as on any map of Spain.
What the analysis sees
The specific signals the official data leaves about this market, before going into detail.
On gross yield it ranks 2 of 2 among the provinces of its region.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife has 1,082,421 residents, an average gross household income of €26,897 a year, an approximate unemployment rate of 14% (above the Spanish average). These are signals of how deep housing demand runs, not of the risk of any one tenant.
In favour
- Momentum 62/100Appraised prices, rents, transactions and population are all rising in the latest data.
- 456 properties analysedWe hold stock for sale here, each with its own investment score.
Against
- 2.5 transactions per 1,000 residentsAn illiquid market: expect longer selling times.
- Approximate unemployment of 14%Above the Spanish average: this is market context, not a measure of tenant risk.
What it costs and what it earns
The market level in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and what it means for a buy-to-let buyer. Per-m² figures are converted to a reference home of 90 m².
Within Santa Cruz de Tenerife municipalities sit on average 26% away from that figure: real dispersion between local markets, not the estimate's margin of error. Drill down to a municipality to see its own.
Expensive or profitable
Each municipality with enough data placed by what it costs to buy and what it earns. Top left is cheap and profitable; bottom right is expensive and earns little.
Where it stands against the rest
Santa Cruz de Tenerife's percentile among the 52 provinces, computed on the same figure for all of them.
Within Canarias it ranks 2 of 2 on gross yield.
Demand, employment and liquidity
The structural depth of the market: how many people live here, what they earn, how much changes hands and what stress it carries. This is market context, never a measure of tenant risk.
Housing repossessions
A figure the INE only publishes per province: how many urban dwellings end in repossession, against the total stock. It measures market stress, not tenant risk.
The municipalities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The 40 most populated with their market level; the remaining 14 are linked below.
The rest of the municipalities of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Alternatives in Canarias
Territories of the same level ranked by gross yield, to compare before deciding.
What is for sale in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Our catalogue in this territory, with an investment score computed property by property.
How this page is calculated
Where each figure comes from, over which territory and from what date. Confidence measures data coverage, never investment quality.
Data coverage
100/100Santa Cruz de Tenerife covers 54 municipalities. Every figure is computed by summing or population-weighting those municipalities, never by averaging their percentages.
- official rent series (SERPAVI) 9 of 54
- series sufficient to measure momentum 54 of 54
- official appraised value (MIVAU) 9 of 54
- estimated market level 54 of 54
- our own adverts 37 of 54
When each figure is from
For an aggregate we show the oldest figure from each source, since that is what limits how the whole can be read.
- rent
- 2024
- sale
- 2025
- household income
- 2023
- official appraisal
- 2026Q1
- population register
- 2025
- registered transactions
- 2026Q1
- registered unemployment
- 2026M06
An indicative statistical estimate for comparing markets, not an appraisal or an investment recommendation. Gross yield does not deduct costs, IBI, insurance, voids or taxes.