Shelters for people, in the places nobody else would build.
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Canarian Spanish. Abrigo, refugio, lugar a propósito para resguardarse del viento. The shelter a dry-stone crescent wall makes for a single vine in La Geria.
The wall is the zoco. The shelter is the soco. We own the feeling, not the object — and every estate we build is a soco for people.
RAE · Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos · DHECan, 1924 / 1957
Six years of eruption from 1730. A Biosphere Reserve. A grammar of whitewash and black stone protected since 1974. 3.42 million visitors a year, busiest in March and October.
New build on rustic land is close to impossible. A pre-existing traditional building is the only door left open. Every El Soco estate starts with one — because on this island, the ruin is the licence.
Dry-laid volcanic stone, restored first. New volumes low and behind it, in lime.
Each with its own gate, terrace and parking. Let whole or apart.
Twelve metres on its own deck; a 200 m² serviced platform, padel first.
And an Atlantic wave within twenty minutes.
A ruined finca in the malpaís below Timanfaya rebuilt as four keys, a heated pool and a floodlit court. ≈ 10,000 m², 5 km from the park gates, 25 km from the airport.
Every padel court on Lanzarote belongs to a hotel or a complex. Ours sits on a level, serviced, floodlit platform with nine programmes on it — and it is forty-five metres from the nearest bed.
Three tranches. Three written gates. Nothing moves on the ground until the licence opinion does.
| Gate | Releases | € |
|---|---|---|
| 1 · Licence opinion | Plot, main house, services | 1,050,000 |
| 2 · Campaign A topped out | Casitas, pool, gardens | 545,000 |
| 3 · Court consent, two quarters | Court, pond, kitchen | 205,000 |
Not yet an investable proposition — an investable option. The base and upside exits assume the estate can be sold as a residence if letting is refused. That assumption is on the cover, and it is the first question in the planning opinion.
The next step is €15–25,000 of due diligence, not a funding round.
Finca del Fuego trades two quarters at forecast. The standard is written down.
Estates 02–03 under El Soco Capital, within the same planning regime.
Third-party estates on the Atlantic islands under the name, with Frest as builder of record.
Counsel's opinion, pre-application, name cleared.
Estate trading; Club El Soco opens.
Exit or refinance; five to eight socos.