Is 3,680 euros the price of a new-build home?

That is the description under which the figure was reported. The same values appear in idealista's August 2026 sale report, its index for second-hand homes, and no separate new-build series for these municipalities could be found. Either way they are asking prices taken from listings.

Why is Pájara up 29 per cent?

The data do not answer that. What is known: idealista recalculated its index retroactively in July 2026, and on 13 September 2026 no new-build development was listed in Pájara.

What does a square metre cost in Corralejo?

3,717 euros in August 2026, 12.7 per cent above the same month a year earlier and, on idealista's account, the highest point of the series.

Are foreigners the main buyers on Fuerteventura?

These figures say nothing about purchases. idealista recorded 52.6 per cent of searches in Pájara coming from abroad in the first quarter of 2026, and 20.3 per cent in the province of Las Palmas.

Is subsidised housing being built on the island?

Yes. Cabildo and Gobierno de Canarias, 29 May 2026: 224 subsidised homes planned or under construction — 125 in La Oliva, 99 in Puerto del Rosario, none in Pájara.

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3,680 euros a square metre: what Fuerteventura's record figure really measures

3,680 euros a square metre is the highest figure idealista reports for any Fuerteventura municipality with August 2026 as its reference month: La Oliva, 13 per cent above the year before. In Pájara it is 3,524 euros and a rise of 29 per cent. The figures were reported as prices for brand-new homes. But those same five values appear in idealista's sale price report, the one the portal runs as its index for second-hand housing — and in Pájara, where the rise is steepest, not a single new-build development is currently on the market.

13 September 2026 · By Martin Kosinski · 5 min

Housing in Corralejo, Fuerteventura (illustrative)

Photo: dirkvorderstrasse, CC BY 2.0 (illustrative image).

The figures and where they come from

idealista, sale price report, reference month August 2026: La Oliva 3,680 €/m² (+13.0%), Pájara 3,524 (+29.0%), Antigua 3,114 (+18.6%), Tuineje 2,502 (+12.7%), Puerto del Rosario 2,164 (+16.1%); no data for Betancuria.
Canarias7 published the same values on 13 September 2026 as prices for brand-new homes — as it did over the previous year's series on 26 August 2025.
idealista describes that report as its index for second-hand homes and builds it from asking prices in listings; the method was changed in July 2026 and applied retroactively to the whole series.
New-build supply on 13 September 2026: yaencontre 33 developments on Fuerteventura, 25 in La Oliva, none in Pájara; idealista 14 apartment developments, all in La Oliva.
Same month: province of Las Palmas 3,105 €/m² (+11.0%), Spain 2,924 €/m² (+12.5%).

Where the figure comes from

The figure appears in the price report of the portal idealista with August 2026 as its reference month. These are asking prices — what advertisers want, not what is paid before a notary. Canarias7 published it on 13 September 2026 as the price of a home bought new; the series carried the same description back in August 2025.

It does not, however, appear to capture new building. The five values, with the same rates of change, appear to the decimal place in idealista's general sale price report for August 2026, including the missing entry for Betancuria. That is the report the portal explicitly runs as its index for second-hand homes; new-build developments appear separately and without a price index. No separate new-build series for these municipalities could be found. That idealista or Canarias7 use some processing not publicly documented cannot be ruled out from outside. The district figure also fits the sale series: Corralejo stands in it at 3,717 euros, 12.7 per cent above August 2025.

Pájara's 29 per cent

Pájara has the island's fastest rise — and it is the municipality where virtually no new build is on offer: none of yaencontre's 33 island developments on 13 September 2026, and none of idealista's 14.

A new-build series for Pájara would rest on almost nothing — and where new build is measured, with two dozen developments one expensive scheme moves the municipal average. On top of that, idealista reworked its index in July 2026, stripped out seasonal listings and recalculated the whole historical series retroactively. The base against which 29 per cent is figured is not the one published in 2025: then Canarias7 gave Pájara 2,745 euros for July 2025 and La Oliva 3,304 euros.

What is actually being built

The building is in the north. The Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Fuerteventura registered 363 files in 2024, on Diario de Fuerteventura's account. COAF president Jorge Arribas told the same paper that the boom in La Oliva was driven by the movimiento turístico extrahotelero, tourist letting outside the hotel sector: villas in Lajares and Villaverde, complexes in El Cotillo and Corralejo. For an average family, he said, the price per square metre is un coste inasumible, unbearable.

New build does rise faster than existing stock, but only slightly: the ISTAC house price index put annual growth in the Canaries in the first quarter of 2026 at 12.0 per cent for new homes and 10.6 per cent for second-hand ones — far below the 12.7 to 29 per cent shown by Fuerteventura's municipalities.

Who is looking there

Those looking in Pájara are mostly not from the island. On an idealista analysis for the first quarter of 2026, reported by Canarias7 on 29 August 2026, 52.6 per cent of housing demand there came from foreigners — the second-highest share of any Canary municipality. In Antigua 46.5 per cent, in the province of Las Palmas 20.3 per cent, led by Germans.

This is search demand on a portal, not ownership; nobody in these data claims foreign buyers are driving prices. The Cabildo de Fuerteventura puts the emphasis elsewhere: on 8 August 2026 it proposed, for the Canary housing plan for 2026 to 2030, tying subsidised housing and rent support to a residency criterion. Public building is happening elsewhere: 224 subsidised homes this term, 125 in La Oliva, 99 in Puerto del Rosario, none in Pájara (Cabildo and regional government, 29 May 2026).

Incomes, and a narrowing frame

Against 3,680 euros stands an income below the Canary average — and that average is the lowest in Spain. In the INE's Atlas de Distribución de Renta de los Hogares for 2023, published on 21 October 2025, the Canaries came to 13,595 euros per person against 15,036 euros for Spain. Per household, an analysis of the same atlas by CCOO Canarias dated 27 November 2025 puts the island of Fuerteventura at 35,381 euros and the Canaries at 36,370 euros; municipal figures are not published for 2023. Eighty square metres at the La Oliva price is around 294,000 euros before tax — a good eight times a household's annual income.

At the same time the frame is narrowing. The new Plan General for Pájara, as the council presented it at the end of July 2026, deletes more than 12,000 planned tourist beds, declassifies over 1.2 million square metres of developable land and protects around 90 per cent of the municipal territory; Alexis Alonso, the deputy mayor for planning, summed up the aim as not growing more but growing better. Whether a smaller future supply dampens prices or supports them is an open question.

Compare district with district, not municipality with municipality. The La Oliva figure blends Corralejo with the interior: in the same series Corralejo stands at 3,717 euros, La Oliva at 3,680, Puerto del Rosario at 2,164. The index measures listings, not completed sales.

An asking price, not a purchase price — and no documented new-build series. The 3,680 euros is an advertised price on a portal. The same five figures appear in idealista's August sale report, which the portal runs as its index for second-hand homes; no separate new-build series for these municipalities could be found, and in Pájara, where the rise is steepest, no new-build development was listed on the major portals on 13 September 2026. Not investment advice.

FAQ

Is 3,680 euros the price of a new-build home?: That is the description under which the figure was reported. The same values appear in idealista's August 2026 sale report, its index for second-hand homes, and no separate new-build series for these municipalities could be found. Either way they are asking prices taken from listings.
Why is Pájara up 29 per cent?: The data do not answer that. What is known: idealista recalculated its index retroactively in July 2026, and on 13 September 2026 no new-build development was listed in Pájara.
What does a square metre cost in Corralejo?: 3,717 euros in August 2026, 12.7 per cent above the same month a year earlier and, on idealista's account, the highest point of the series.
Are foreigners the main buyers on Fuerteventura?: These figures say nothing about purchases. idealista recorded 52.6 per cent of searches in Pájara coming from abroad in the first quarter of 2026, and 20.3 per cent in the province of Las Palmas.
Is subsidised housing being built on the island?: Yes. Cabildo and Gobierno de Canarias, 29 May 2026: 224 subsidised homes planned or under construction — 125 in La Oliva, 99 in Puerto del Rosario, none in Pájara.

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