49% of Sareb's 831 housing properties in the Canary Islands are in very high demand areas, according to the idealista real estate portal this Wednesday. In Lanzarote Sareb has a total of 81 real estate properties of housing, mostly in Arrecife.
The Council of Ministers approved this week a plan to mobilize thousands of homes of the Asset Management Company from Banking Restructuring (Sareb), also known as the bad bank, for affordable rent.
To obtain these data, Idealista has analyzed the homes that Sareb claims to have in each Spanish municipality (46,540), has geolocated them and has crossed each home with the relative demand rate registered in idealista by those same municipalities in the first quarter of 2023.
Canary Islands is the second autonomous community of the country with the highest number of homes of Sareb in the most demanded areas in its territory. Only Navarra, where 55% of the properties are in this type of area, has a higher percentage. After the Canary Islands, the highest percentages are found in Madrid (34%), Catalonia (20%) and Euskadi (18%).
The data from the Canary Islands contrast with the national average. In the country as a whole, two thirds of the homes owned by Sareb are located in municipalities with low or very low demand for rent. Specifically, 3% of the homes on the Sareb website are in municipalities with very low demand, while 60% are in areas with low demand.
On the other side of the spectrum, Castilla y León and Andalusia are the communities that accumulate the most homes in areas of very low demand, with 6% and 5% respectively. They are followed by Extremadura (3%), Castilla-La Mancha (2%), Galicia and Asturias (1% in both cases).
Despite everything, the real estate portal clarifies that "the homes that Sareb claims to own on its website do not discriminate by state of conservation or whether or not they suffer illegal occupation, which could significantly modify these percentages in the large markets".
