The Ministry of Housing has asked the holiday rental platforms to remove advertisements for approximately 2,438 illegal tourist dwellings in Lanzarote. In total, the ministry chaired by Isabel Rodríguez (PSOE) has asked pages like Airbnb and Booking to remove 13,726 properties in the Canary Islands from their offerings, more than 16.7% in Lanzarote
The ministerial portfolio has thus identified the properties that have requested the registration of short-term rentals, whether for tourist or temporary housing, and have not obtained it due to non-compliance with the requirements
According to data that La Voz has been able to access, in the latest batch of holiday homes detected as illegal for failing to obtain mandatory registration, the island municipality with the most revoked licenses is Teguise, with a total of 576. Very closely following it is Tías, with 570, and Yaiza, with 563.
Licenses were also revoked in Arrecife, a total of 303; in Haría, 150; San Bartolomé, 140; and in Tinajo, 136.
Tinajo, Haría, Teguise and Arrecife, highest percentage of withdrawn homes
By municipalities, Tías is the one that has submitted the most registration requests to the Ministry of Housing. In total, 2,753 homes have requested to be registered in the single registry, an indispensable measure to be able to register the property on digital platforms. The majority of these requests (more than 98%) were submitted for tourist rentals, while only a minority (less than 2%) did so for seasonal rentals. Of the total requests submitted in Tías, about twenty-one out of every hundred were rejected.
After Tías, the municipality with the most applications is Yaiza, with 2,748, the majority (97.4%) are for vacation rentals, while the rest are for seasonal rentals. Of these, more than twenty out of every hundred requests were revokedThe municipality of Teguise is one of those that has seen the highest percentages of homes revoked in proportion to the total number of applications. In total, of the 1,952 homes that applied to be registered as tourist accommodation and, to a lesser extent, as seasonal accommodation, thirty out of every hundred were revoked for not complying with current regulationsOf the 339 applications submitted in Tinajo, 136 were revoked, that is, the municipality saw forty out of every one hundred tourist homes eliminated
Both in the municipalities of Arrecife, as in Haría, thirty out of every one hundred permits requested from the ministerial portfolio of Housing were revoked. In the capital of Lanzarote, 982 requests were submitted, while in the northern municipality, 499 were requested.
In San Bartolomé, 483 applications were submitted, of which about 29 out of every hundred were revoked.
