Buying a Second Home in Tenerife: Who Looks After It When You're Gone?
It's a question worth answering before you buy, not three months after the keys change hands.
17 March 2026 · 6 min read
Most of the buying process for a Tenerife second home is about the property itself — location, price, condition, paperwork. A question that gets much less attention, and usually surfaces only after the sale, is a simple one: who's actually looking after this place when you're not here?
The options people usually land on
A common first instinct is to lean on a friendly neighbour or a local contact from the buying process — workable for a while, but it tends to be informal, unpaid, and fragile the moment that person is unavailable or moves on. Another route is a rental-focused property manager, which works well if the main goal is generating holiday-let income, but usually isn't built around the needs of an owner who mainly wants their own home looked after between personal visits. A third option, more common with larger villas, is hiring a mix of individual local tradespeople directly — which solves the skills problem but recreates the original 'who do I call' fragmentation this whole topic is about.
What's worth setting up from day one
Regardless of which route you take, a few things are worth arranging as soon as you own the property rather than waiting for the first problem: a documented key-holding arrangement (not an informal spare key), a realistic check schedule matched to how long you're typically away, and a single point of contact who can coordinate a repair rather than you researching a new tradesperson from abroad every time something comes up.
Where a home concierge model fits
This is the specific gap a service like Casa Plus is built to close — one accountable relationship that covers checks, key holding, and coordinating whatever maintenance comes up, rather than a patchwork of favours and one-off contractors. It's worth deciding on an approach before you're managing the property remotely for the first time, not after the first thing goes wrong.