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Laura Leyshon: Gran Canaria's top selling estate agent

Gran Canaria estate agent. Best seller. I work with foreign buyers ans sellers.

Why Choose Laura & Las Palmas Property

I’m Laura Leyshon and I’m Las Palmas’ resident property expert.  I work for RE/MAX Cony Overseas, one of the city’s oldest estate agencies and the first RE/MAX office to open in Europe. Cony Overseas has an excellent local reputation and has helped hundreds of foreign buyers and sellers in Las Palmas and all over Gran […]

Living In Gran Canaria: Articles By Local estate Agent Laura Leyshon

Useful articles about living in Gran Canaria by local estate agent and property expert Laura Leyshon.

4 Things Being An Estate Agent Has Taught Me About Gran Canaria

April 1, 2019 by Laura Leyshon

Local estate agent Laura Leyshon tell us what working in Gran Canaria has taught here about island life: From paperwork to coffee breaks.

Gran Canaria runs on its own time

The Canary Islands are an hour behind the rest of Spain and on the same time as London. This gives the islands up to a billion euros per year of brand exposure on Spanish radio and TV. It’s so important that the Canary Islands have said that they will jump by an hour if Spain changes timezone to better suit its location.

It’s not just the “una hora antes en Canarias” that keeps the islands in a different timestream. Many of the words that the rest of the world use to describe time just don’t work here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gran Canaria Blog Tagged With: Gran Canaria estate agent, Gran Canaria life, Gran Canaria lifestyle, Las Palmas estate agent, Las Palmas life, living in Gran Canaria

Guide To All The Rooftop Bars In Las Palmas City

September 19, 2018 by Laura Leyshon

The view from the rooftop terrace bar at the BEX hotel in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The Las Palmas rooftop bar scene is taking off with new hotel bars and terraces opening regularly.

It’s because the law changed at the start of 2018 to allow restaurants and clubs to use their rooftops, albeit with restricted opening time to limit disturbance to neighbours.

Here’s my list of all the rooftop bars in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city, starting by Las Canteras and moving south towards Vegueta and Triana. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gran Canaria Blog Tagged With: Las Canteras rooftop bar, Las Palmas bars, Las Palmas guide, Las Palmas nightlife, Las Palmas rooftop bar, Laura Leyshon, Triana rooftop bar, Vegueta rooftop bar

RE/MAX Cony Overseas: Leading Gran Canaria Estate Agency For Over 20 Years

June 13, 2018 by Laura Leyshon

RE/MAX Cony Overseas: Helping foreign buyers and sellers in Gran Canaria for over twenty years

RE/MAX Cony Overseas has been helping foreign buyers and sellers in Las Palmas and all over Gran Canaria for over twenty years.

It was the first RE/MAX estate agency in the Canary Islands and one of the pioneers in the whole of Spain. [Read more…]

Filed Under: BUYING GRAN CANARIA PROPERTY, Gran Canaria Blog, SELLING GRAN CANARIA PROPERTY Tagged With: Gran Canaria estate agency, Inmobiliria Las Palmas, Las Palmas estate agency, Laura estate agent, Laura Leyshon Gran Canaria, RE/MAX Cony, RE/MAX Cony Overseas

Living In Gran Canaria: A Guide By Laura Leyshon

March 5, 2018 by Laura Leyshon

Living Gran Canaria : My guide to moving to Gran Canaria, making friends and living happily ever after

My guide to moving to Gran Canaria as an expat or foreign resident is called Gran Canaria Living. It’s a useful guide to moving to the island, finding friends and settling into island life.

Over the last few years, I have written lots of articles about living in Gran Canaria here and for Gran Canaria Guru and Gran Canaria Info.

Articles like…

A guide to the best schools in Gran Canaria

How to get a Gran Canaria mortgage

The ultimate shopping guide to Las Palmas

I keep them all updated, but they are rather spread out. Several people told me that they weren’t finding the information they needed.

So, I decided to write a book with all the information in one easy-to-access place.

Here it is: Gran Canaria Living.

I’m Laura Leyshon and I’m a British estate agent living and working in Gran Canaria. I lived in Gran Canaria for over 15 years and work for RE/MAX Cony Overseas: One of the island’s most respected estate agencies.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about moving to Gran Canaria.

Filed Under: BUYING GRAN CANARIA PROPERTY, Gran Canaria Blog, Las Palmas Property News Tagged With: Gran Canaria estate agent, Gran Canaria expat guide, Gran Canaria expert, Gran Canaria guidebook, Laura Leyshon estate agent, living Gran Canaria, moving Gran Canaria

5 Things About The Las Palmas Water Supply That Only Experience Teaches You

December 28, 2017 by Laura Leyshon

5 things you need to know about the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria water supply

As a Las Palmas estate agent, I sell dozens of properties in the city every year so you’d think I know most things about the city’s quirks.

However, it wasn’t until I bought my own property that I learned these five things about the Las Palmas water and sewage system. [Read more…]

Filed Under: BUYING GRAN CANARIA PROPERTY, Gran Canaria Blog Tagged With: Gran Canaria drinking water, Gran Canaria emalsa, Gran Canaria plumbing, Gran Canaria Property, Gran Canaria property tips, Gran Canaria sewage system, Las Palmas Emalsa, Las Palmas plumbing, Las Palmas property

A Fresh Guide To Las Palmas Food Shopping

August 7, 2017 by Laura Leyshon

Where to go food shopping in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palmas food shopping at the Vegueta market

One of the great advantages of living in Las Palmas city is that you are never a couple of minute’s walk away from a shop. Between local shops, supermarkets and the markets, you can buy almost anything in the city and there’s a great range of fresh and local produce. 

Little shops in Las Palmas

The city’s little groceries, known as estancos, are still going strong by offering everything from roast pork sandwiches to lottery tickets & last-minute piñatas to local fruit and veg. They are more expensive than the supermarkets, but who wants to wade into a big supermarket when all you need is a loaf of bread or a bunch of ripe bananas?

Recently there’s been a boom in fruterias selling nothing but fresh fruit and veg. Most have a good range of local and imported stuff and can be very cheap if you buy local, seasonal produce. Their fruit, especially local ones like bananas, papayas and mangos, tends to be better than the ones on sale in the supermarkets.

These little shops get their local produce direct from the farm so their bananas have never been refrigerated; they are always sweeter than supermarket bananas.

Most, but not all, small Las Palmas shops close on Sundays.

The big Las Palmas supermarkets

Las Palmas has half a dozen large supermarket chains with supermarkets dotted throughout the city. Since Canarians tend to cook from scratch they all have a decent range of fruit & veg. Many offer home delivery in the local area. Some Mercadonas will even scan and bag and deliver your shop; all you do is leave the trolley, swipe your card, give them the address, and go home.

The main local company is Hiperdino and it does a good job or competing with larger international rivals. Hiperdino shops (also Superdino) offer a good range of food and home products are reasonable prices. They all have fresh fruit and veg along with a fish, meat and cold-cuts counter.

Locate your nearest Hiperdino supermarket.

Spar has an excellent presence in Las Palmas and also offers a wide range of produce at good prices.  Most Spar shops are smaller and are a bit light on choice.

Locate your nearest SPAR.

Mercadona is a Spanish brand and is probably the best-value option in Las Palmas. It has a good range of fresh fruit & veg, plus a big selection of meat and cheese from all over Europe. Mercadona also sells things like big pots of fresh yoghurt, kefir, wholegrain bread, Cheddar cheese and Kalamata olives.

Locate the nearest Mercadona.

Hipercor and Supercor supermarkets are the upmarket chain in Las Palmas and are run by the El Corte Inglés department store. They tend to be significantly more expensive than rival supermarkets, but do have an excellent range of local wines as well as quality meat and seafood. The supermarket in the basement of El Corte Inglés department store on Mesa y Lopez is huge; it’s not cheap but it does stock a wide range of foreign treats.

There’s an Hipercor in the Siete Palmas shopping centre, and a Supercor on Calle Fernando Guanarteme.

Carrefour has three supermarkets in Las Palmas, including the big one at Las Arenas shopping centre at the south end of Las Canteras beach. Carrefour sells everything from clothes and electronics to food. It has a good selection of local and international produce, including French wines and cheese, plus a small international food section with good bacon and lots of treats from all around the world.

Lidl is moving into Las Palmas and is competitively priced.  Its bread and croissants are good, it has plenty of fresh veg, good yoghurt and excellent vale-for-money wine. However, so far I’ve found that there isn’t really any reason to go out of your way to shop at Lidl.

Eroski has one huge hypermarket in the El Mirador shopping centre just south of the city at Jinamar. It’s huge and sells everything but there really isn’t any need to drive there to do a shop when you have so many other options within the city.

Alcampo is the biggest and best value supermarket in Gran Canaria. It’s located at the out-of-town La Estrella shopping area in Telde (between Leroy Merlín and Ikea) and has a huge range of almost everything. Its fruit & veg, meat and fish selections are unmatched.

Not that you still need photo ID to pay using a debit card at Alcampo (even with chip & pin).

Some SPAR and Hiperdino shops open on Sundays.

Las Palmas local markets

The main Las Palmas fresh food market, called the Mercado Central, is on Calle Galicia just south of Mesa y Lopez between the Puerto district and Alcaravaneras. The ground floor stalls sell everything from freshly-ground coffee to local and imported fruit & veg, local cheese, meat and fish. It’s an excellent place to shop for fresh local produce and some stalls deliver what you buy to your door.

The Mercado del Puerto is at the north end of Las Canteras beach on Calle Albareda is a good mix of tapas and food stalls and local produce vendors. You can’t miss the lovely, wrought iron building.

At the other end of town, the Mercado de Vegueta is also set in an old building but is more about the produce than the tapas. Look out for the beautifully-decorated fruit stalls that sell the widest range of tropical fruit on the island.

For people living up the hill, the Mercado Municipal de Altavista sells an excellent range of fresh produce.

The Sunday market at San Lorenzo, a small village just 15 minutes away from Las Palmas by bus, has an excellent range of local fruit and veg, cheese and bread. It’s best to be there before 11 am when the hordes arrive from Las Palmas.

Further inland, Santa Brigida has a weekend market with a good wine stall, and the vast San Mateo market (Saturdays and Sundays) sells an incredible range of fresh fruit and veg. Both are east to get to by bus from Las Palmas and get crowded after midday.

Organic food in Las Palmas

La Zanahoria on Calle Galicia, right opposite the front door of the Mercado Central) sells a wide range of organic fruit & veg, cheese and other food (and wine).

SPAR Natural on Calle Juan Manuel Durán sells a wide range of organic and health food products.

There’s a really good list of organic shops on the Gran Canaria Ecologica website. Several can arrange box deliveries of fresh, local produce.

Specialist food shops in Las Palmas

The Chinese supermarkets on Calle Barcelona right by the Mercado Central sell a huge range of Asian food and some locally grown Chinese veg such as bok choi and yams. There are several on the street and it’s worth visiting them all as each one has a different range. Don’t miss the freezer cabinets for even more Asian veggies like bamboo shoots, nd some exotic options like whole crabs and salted jellyfish.

For fresh Kimchi and Korean-style tofu, visit the Korean supermarket just around the corner on Calle Valencia.

Godhwani’s on Calle Los Gofiones 59 (at the north tip of Las Canteras beach) is an old-school emporium that seems to sell everything. It stocks a huge range of teas, spices, Asian treats, etc.

This super-useful article was written by Laura Leyshon: Las Palmas’ resident British estate agent. If you want somewhere to live as well as to shop, you know who to contact.

Filed Under: Gran Canaria Blog Tagged With: food shopping Las Palmas, Las Palmas city life, Las Palmas food, Las Palmas guide, Las Palmas lifestyle, Las Palmas markets, Living in Las Palmas, organic food Las Palmas

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