A total of 11,069 homes are registered as holiday rentals in Lanzarote. This is clear from the figures published in Canarias Datos Abiertos, updated this very March 19. Which means that tourist-use properties have stagnated on the island since the law was definitively approved in December 2025.
Between January and this month of March, vacation rentals have decreased a slight 0.2%. However, they have increased by 112.95% from June 2023 to the present. Meanwhile, vacation homes available for rent, which fluctuate each month, decreased to 6,717 in February of this year.
By municipalities, Yaiza has 3,103 registered tourist homes, closely followed by Tías, with 2,969, and, by Teguise, with 2,209. Only one municipality on the island is around a thousand vacation rentals and that is the case of Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, where there are 1,195 tourist homes. Meanwhile, in the municipality of Haría there are 613; and in San Bartolomé, 606, while in Tinajo there are 374.
A regulation without consensus and with criticisms of favoring hoteliers
The plenary session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands approved last November, with the vote against PSOE, Nueva Canarias and Vox, the new law that regulates vacation homes in the archipelago. The Canary Islands Vacation Rental Association (ASCAV) opposed this regulation, assuring that it "will mean the practical eradication" of vacation rentals in the Canary Islands. Furthermore, it pointed out that the regulation favored the hotel sector.
Despite this law being announced at the beginning of the current legislature, in which Coalición Canaria, the Popular Party, AHI, and ASG assumed government, the delay in its processing led to a call effect: a 109% more vacation homes on the island from June 2023 until its approval in the Parliament of the Canary Islands in November 2025.
