Coup de coeur #10: Finca Leonardo

(A series of "Pierre, what do they not have" posts)

End of 2014 we had some doubts about winter in France again, and diverted our attention to the Canary Islands. We know Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Gomera, but had not been to Tenerife.

And on Tenerife we found this place, a finca with not little land, and irrigation water. Edge of town, quite high up, above Arafo: Finca Leonardo.

The colour is not what we would prefer ourselves, but seeing other houses, white paint is available on Tenerife.

This finca was listed on quite a few estate agent web sites, with wildly varying prices. Apparently it had been for sale quite a while, seeing early adverts with date, about two years ago. And we found the house on a house swap website as well. Oh, that is still online too, here, but at a much higher price.

Isn't this a holiday snap? And isn't that view gorgeous? Where's the white wine?

This is what you can find with Street View, apparently taken a while before the photo above, where the basin is painted white.

A bit less jolly, maybe because of the grey sky, and the rainy atmosphere. But there is a basin in the roof terrace, that could be a lovely dipping pool!

Alas, a few weeks later, by the time we figured out it might be an interesting place to live, the place appeared to have been long sold. At least 6 months prior. You can still find it online, one and a half years later. Like here, and here. And here!, €70.000 price reduction!! Hm.

So this view will not be ours either. Nor the hundreds of avocado trees.