Lanzarote is immersed in an unprecedented housing crisis. The rise of vacation rentals, which has skyrocketed after the pandemic, is one of the causes driving this emergency on the island. For the moment, the approval of the law that will regulate its tourist use has not yet gone ahead. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs has managed to eliminate nearly 66,000 listings from online rental platforms for not complying with the single state registry.
In the last 25 months, tourist homes have grown by 97% in Lanzarote, reaching 10,555 in July 2025. This is according to the analysis of data published in June 2023 by the CajaCanarias-Ashotel Tourism Chair and its comparison with the homes currently registered in the General Tourism Registry of the Canary Islands, an essential requirement to be able to rent in the archipelago.
Thus, in June 2023, the island had 5,198 homes in the tourist market, while two years and one month later it has 5,357 more. This type of tourist accommodation is also growing compared to the previous month. Specifically, the number of registered homes has increased by 1.8%, being 187 more than in June.
More homes advertised than registered
One of the most used tourist rental platforms, Airbnb, removed 65,000 listings from its platform this Tuesday. A few weeks ago, Booking removed 4,000. However, the AIRDNA data scraping tool, which analyzes Airbnb and Vrbo listings, puts the number of tourist home listings in Lanzarote at 10,843.
Thus, at least 288 homes are being advertised on the platform on the island without being registered in the Canary Islands registry. To this would have to be added the listings on Booking, which is much more used than Vrbo and which concentrates thousands of vacation rentals, but which, due to company policy, prohibits scraping data from its website.
For the moment, the Government of Spain, which has not broken down the data by region, states that there are approximately another 55,000 homes on Airbnb throughout the country that do not meet the requirement of obtaining the single registration number.
