The Canary Islands had 211,331 empty homes at the end of 2021, one in five existing on all the islands, which represents an increase of 52.9% over the situation twenty years earlier, in 2001, when only 138,221 were unoccupied, according to a study prepared by the appraisal company Tinsa.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is among the three Spanish coastal provincial capitals that today have more empty homes than in 2001, 10.5% more. In the rest of the coastal municipalities of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura this phenomenon has grown by 67.2% and the total of the municipalities of the three islands, not counting the capital, has done so by 166.5%.
By provinces, the highest rate of empty homes is found in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, with 26.1%, three points above what this report attributes to Las Palmas, which is 23.3%.
In both provinces, the number of unoccupied homes has grown in the last two decades by more than 50% on average, although in a disparate manner depending on whether it is the capital, the coast or the rest of the island territory.
In the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife the number of empty homes has decreased by 7.2% in twenty years. The balance of the province, excluding the capital, the increase in empty homes is 133%, and in the coastal municipalities, in particular, 73%.
In the whole of Spain, the number of empty homes has increased by 24% compared to 2001; however, in the capitals it has been reduced by 32%, a decrease that has reached 40% in the six main ones: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville and Malaga.
Specifically, since 2001 these six large capitals concentrate 266,173 uninhabited homes, a figure that rises to 608,640 units in all 52 Spanish capitals.
