The large holders, those who own more than ten homes, monopolize a total of 2,656 residential properties in Lanzarote. This is clear from the Cadastre data of 2025. In this way, 3.7% of the island's homes are in the hands of large owners.
This distribution varies by municipality and by number of properties. If one considers the legal profile of the owners, twelve private entities own more than a hundred residential properties each in Lanzarote. For example, nine legal entities (companies, associations or foundations) share 1,298 residential properties in Tías. Meanwhile, in the municipality of Yaiza, a single private entity owns 180 residential properties and, in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, one company monopolizes 105 residential properties, while another entity owns 158 in the same capital.
Owners with more than one hundred houses
A handful of people or companies own a good part of the residential properties of the entire island. For example, in Arrecife, the capital of Lanzarote, seventy multi-owners, whether natural or legal persons, distribute among themselves 1,563 properties of this type, 6.5% of the total. The more the number of properties increases, the fewer hands they are distributed among.
In the municipality of Tías, a single person owns 29 residential properties; sixteen people hold 217 properties, while 57 companies share another 1,756 and two other unidentified legal entities add 44 more.
In Yaiza, a single person owns 36 properties, two others own twenty-two more homes and fifteen companies own 307.
Other municipalities
In the case of Tinajo, a single company has eleven residential properties, and another unidentified legal entity, another eleven.
In the municipality of Haría, four companies hold 51 houses.
In San Bartolomé, four natural persons share 57 houses, two legal entities another 68, and a seventh unidentified personality, twenty-six more.
Finally, in Teguise, two natural persons have 26 properties and eight legal persons, 274.
Last December, the Parliament of the Canary Islands overturned, with the votes of Canarian Coalition, the Popular Party and the parties that support the regional Executive, the register of large holders proposed by the PSOE.
The majority of homes in the hands of small owners
On the contrary, most of the owners in the capital own a single property. In total, 14,756 residents of Arrecife have a single house in the city, that is, 82.7% of the residential properties in the capital belong to small owners. Meanwhile, 5,031 houses in Arrecife (20.9%) belong to 2,051 medium-sized owners, that is, those who own between two and five residential properties.
In the case of Tías, the second municipality on the island with the most residential homes, 80.3% of the homes are in the hands of small owners. By municipalities, Teguise and Tinajo are the localities on the island where most homes are in the hands of small owners, 85.7% and 84.8% respectively, belong to people who only own one house in the locality. Followed by San Bartolomé, with 83.7%; Yaiza, with 82.6% and Haría, with 80.5%.
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